truthseeker
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I will come back to this thread in 3 weeks time with a story for ye, cant tell now, would ruin the secret
I made a comment that Id come back and tell ye a secret - well the thread is closed so Ive decided to open a new thread to tell......
I was supposed to be getting married later this year, but due to my own feelings on not enjoying weddings etc.
I ran off and did it abroad a couple of weeks ago. Just meself and himself, no guests, 2 strangers as witnesses.
I can strongly recommend elopement as the way to go!!! No stress, no guests to worry about, no boring bits and just a lovely time the two of us
:dconrats, i wish your oh the best in trying to win any arguments!
How did you break the news to your family and how was it received?
How did you break the news to your family and how was it received?
Kine - we investigated before we went the legalities of marriage in a foreign country. It differs by country, but we wanted somewhere where there were easy residency requirements and paperwork was minimal.
There are a number of places like this actually, we (and our travel agent) fulfilled the legal requirements (providing copies of long form of birth cert and passports etc) in advance, brought the originals with us, and then the visa stamp on the passports fulfilled the residency requirements *in the country we chose there are no residency requirements to marry but we needed to show we were legally in the country*.
We used a minister who was licensed to carry out civil marriages and immediately after the ceremony we filled out the legal paperwork and he provided us with a short temporary marriage certificate and a day or so after the ceremony he registered the marriage in the government offices and got us the official rubber stamped long form or permanent 'Certificate of Marriage'. (he was familiar with doing foreign marriages which made it all a bit easier).
Legalities of such, in Ireland you do not have to register a foreign civil marriage, only an Irish civil marriage. So we are legal - everywhere.
The above is all just in relation to civil marriages - had we just had a religious ceremony we would have been required to have the civil ceremony in Ireland for it to be legal.
Wow, interesting indeed....an option I have considered but done no research into it. I would love to do this, but convincing the other half would take some work! Then again, after telling her how much a wedding she wants will cost I'm getting closer!
Just curious, are there many of you out there who would change the type of wedding you had if you could go back in time (and I don't mean changing partner!!).
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