We did - we bought round the world tickets for the honeymoon, then flew to Las Vegas and got married there as the first leg of the trip.
We didn't tell anyone in advance, and had great fun springing it on them afterwards....we decided to tell all of the significant members of the family and friends face to face so many of them didn't get to find out until we finished the honeymoon 5-6 weeks later.
Why Vegas?
1. It's Vegas...everyone has thought about running away to Vegas at least once...
2. The ceremony can be as big or as little as you like - our wedding took less than 2 hours to organise...from start to signing the register. We went for a very low key option...rented a nice open top sports car and went to a drive through wedding chapel!
3. Marriage licences are issued on the spot, and the issuing bureau is open all hours.
If we had of eloped it would have been to Las Vegas.
We're thinking of renewing our vows for our tenth anniversary in 2011 & going to Vegas to have Elvis remarry us hehehe (I'm a HUGE Elvis fan!)
Good luck deciding
there is a website called "weddings away"....we are looking into that. there is no way we are the big wedding type of people. mind you, i'm not engaged yet!
Last edited by queenbee; November 3rd, 2008 at 07:41 AM.
I think that we will elope. When I was engaged to my 1st boyfriend, my mother was a case of if we are paying for it (which they were not) we have say into it. She told me who I could and couldn't invite (as in relatives that I would not know if I tripped over them in the street). In the end we split up and I am now in a new relationship. I had only been together for 6months (with my new DP) and my mother was asking about when we are getting married and she thinks that it would be a nice idea for us to elope.. 'just the 4 of us, you and x and your father and I'
No thanks! I really do think that a family wedding will be out of the question.
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