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Anyones experience with Gretna Green?

  • 28-12-2012 7:56pm
    #1
    Rosedust84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭


    We've been engaged for nearly two years but have never really discussed setting a date due to cost etc! I'd rather a small do since I haven't much family and I don't want my side of the church empty...lol
    Anyway, his parents married in Gretna Green, though it was over 30 years ago, so I'd like some more modern experience with it..it sounds cheap and small as you like which is something that would interest us, but is it decent? Or do you get what you pay for? I sound like a cheapskate but honestly and expensive wedding terrifies me and thats what we would be pressured into if we had it close to home! Oh and how woukd it work re.making it legal over here, what would we have to do?


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  • #2
    Rosedust84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭Rosedust84


    anyone?


  • #3
    jackofalltrades
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    I went to a wedding there a few years ago. Don't get the huge appeal of the place. It's fairly small and there's not a lot to do there.

    It's also going to be expensive for your guests to get there. It's a flight and car hire/train/bus or a ferry over. It attracts a certain crowd which makes staying in cheaper accommodation not that advisable.

    You can do a small, cheap wedding over here that would be much nicer.


  • #4
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,258 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Rosedust84 wrote: »
    We've been engaged for nearly two years but have never really discussed setting a date due to cost etc! I'd rather a small do since I haven't much family and I don't want my side of the church empty...lol
    Anyway, his parents married in Gretna Green, though it was over 30 years ago, so I'd like some more modern experience with it..it sounds cheap and small as you like which is something that would interest us, but is it decent? Or do you get what you pay for? I sound like a cheapskate but honestly and expensive wedding terrifies me and thats what we would be pressured into if we had it close to home! Oh and how woukd it work re.making it legal over here, what would we have to do?
    You don't have to do anything to make it legal over here. If a wedding is legal in the place where it's celebrated, then it's legal, full stop.

    I've never been to Gretna Green, but a wedding celebrated there can be as big or as small as you like - much like a wedding celebrated anywhere else, in fact. And, yes, you get what you pay for.

    Getting married abroad is a good idea if you want a small, low-key wedding. Gretna Green has no particular advantages in this regard, except that your desire to marry there can be presented not as a cost-limiting move but as following in family tradition. On the other hand, Gretna Green is quite close to home, and weddings celebrated there are public, and unless you're willing to explain to your wider family that you really don't want them to come, they may expect/pressure you to throw a big shindig, even in Gretna Green.


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