Did anyone elope for their wedding ....?

LeeUK said:
When you get married abroad, how does it stand up legally when you are back home, is the certificated still legally valid and does it get registered in the UK?
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Yes. try to get 2 wedding certificates as you need to send an original to your local registry office if I remember correctly.
 
Not so much a secret wedding, but a plain quick basic wedding would suit me. Registry office with family and close friends then a booked function room for everyone afterwards.

None of this 2 years of planning and spending £££Ks nonsense. Although I have been to some very nice weddings in the past I just don't have the patience for it myself.
 
We got married on a beach in the Florida Keys. We only told a handful of people so only had 6 guests. The only thing I'd change was having more close family and friends there. Everything else about it was spot on.
 
We only had six guests at our wedding and not many more knew about it. The guests were my parents, his parents, and his bro and partner.

I suspect more people knew about it because my mum can't keep her trap shut and has little respect for my wishes, so likely blabbed! I also told my best mate because I needed dress advice!

We then announced that we were married just after it happened and invited everyone to a party a few months later. Honeymooned in Silverstone for the F1 (actually I spent the money we would have spend on the honeymoon on F1 tickets but we joke that Silverstone was our honeymoon)

Just had a simple registry office do and then over to a nice restaurant for a family meal.

No regrets, we wanted a marriage, not a wedding so everything went as we wanted. Started planning in Sept, got married in Feb, party in May, and cost less than a grand.
 
Aruba with just my parents (overlapped a week out of two). Was great and relaxed.

Had a party back home though.
 
Why not just book the trip to Thailand for a month or two? Flights aren't going to be much more so you can get married sooner and do it where you wanted.

I'd have to ask why she wants to get married quick. Found out she is pregnant and wants a kid in wedlock? Or wants half your stuff when she leaves you? :p
 
You guys have a strange concept of eloping.... Id call them all low key weddings nothing else.
 
Married in Vegas at the chapel of the flowers. Didn't tell the parents and our witnesses were the receptionist and photographer. Been together 12 years married 6 years.

Something like £600-650 all in including around 150 really nice photographs
 
b0redj0rd said:
I'm planning on marrying my fiance this winter, or early in 2017. We'd spoken about doing it in Thailand and were all set to book the wedding on a resort that we have been to on a previous holiday on Phi Phi Island.

In what I can only assume is an effort to prepare me for married life, she has changed her mind and has suggested we elope and do it in the UK so we are able to marry quicker.
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What passport does she have out of interest? Did she start mentioning this after Brexit or something. ;)
 
Also not eloping, but we flew over to Hong Kong to get married. Just us, my mum, her parents, and four good friends who live in HK. That was perfect (and very cheap and easy).

Had the Taiwanese wedding when we got back, 450 people, of whom we knew about 10%, months of stress and planning. Still, the HK one was the "real" (well, and legal) one, was happy to have it so low key.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
OP - is this marriage without the consent of your parents?

Gretna Green was always the go to place for elopers.

Just seen your reply in post 12
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Thanks :) I have checked out a few packages that have been in Gretna Green. I guess it is as close as you can get to 'traditional' with this sort of thing. It is somewhere where I am considering for sure.

Oh all sets of parents are aware and happy for the wedding.

Amp34 said:
Why not just book the trip to Thailand for a month or two? Flights aren't going to be much more so you can get married sooner and do it where you wanted.

I'd have to ask why she wants to get married quick. Found out she is pregnant and wants a kid in wedlock? Or wants half your stuff when she leaves you? :p
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Ah this is where it gets complicated. I met this girl when I was working in Azerbaijan, she's from Uzbekistan - We've been together for 3 years doing a combination of holidays abroad and visas for the UK and we eventually got engaged this year with the idea of getting married early in 2017.

The reasons for doing it here, is that she can come here on a fiance visa for up to 6 months (same level of application process as a spousal visa; interviews in person, lots of documents and a possible home visit with the addition of needing to book a venue and etc) and once we are married this can be changed to the spousal one, here in the UK. If we get married abroad then there is a need to apply for that visa from her home country, and it is a 3 month process.

The downside I guess is this. I'll need to pay for an extra visa to do it in the UK (they aren't cheap - £900 plus a £600 health surcharge), and we'll delay the honeymoon until summer I guess.

Efour said:
You guys have a strange concept of eloping.... Id call them all low key weddings nothing else.
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That is what I was thinking too. I've never wanted a big wedding and luckily neither has she.

Em3bbs said:
What passport does she have out of interest? Did she start mentioning this after Brexit or something. ;)
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She's Uzbek, so the application and visa process is a nightmare post/pre BREXIT either way!
 
timmeh said:
We got married on a beach in the Florida Keys. We only told a handful of people so only had 6 guests. The only thing I'd change was having more close family and friends there. Everything else about it was spot on.
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This is what I don't understand, why would you not want your friends there :confused: Without friends it's just a boring day with family or your partner, like any other day.

We had a small-ish wedding, 80 guests in our local brewery (lovely function room, not in among the equipment). Was perfect, stress free, only took us 8 weeks to organise and relatively cheap too compared to some. Would do it the same again tomorrow.

I've stood on plenty of beaches around the world, having to listen to a guy marry you would ruin the experience for me :p

Both my parents have sadly passed away but I wouldn't have ever thought of not giving my mum the chance to see her son get married. She gave her everything raising me and my siblings, the least I could have done was let her experience one of the proudest days of my life.
 
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