Eloping

Jenn1109

Me and my fiance is wanting to get married without any issues with my family. How would we go about do it and keeping it quite??

homemadecider

Pick a place to elope.

Book flights and accommodation.

Book wedding in same place.

Don't tell anyone.

Go and get married.

Job done.

Riskymove

don't think you need to elope unless for some reason you cannot marry here


justhave a civil ceremony here in Ireland; 3 months notice and just need two witnesses

Neyite

If you like the romantic aspect of eloping, I know a couple who had a gorgeous civil wedding in Gretna Green.

Nicman

Well you also have to give your 3 months notice in Ireland still and will have to "legalise" it all either before you go away or after, from what I know. I might be wrong.
Then after that I would say the main way to ensure you keep it quiet is by not leaving too much time between the planning and the event. You won't last a year keeping it to yourselves.

Before you make this decision, consider if you'll have regrets. Maybe you won't this year but in 5 or 20 years. Is it because of costs or you just don't want the fuss and hassle?

We were going to elope and then figured that the fact that there was even the slightest chance that we might be sorry we planned it for here but promised ourselves we'd keep it small, simple and true to ourselves. We did. We stuck to our guns and that was possible because we booked the lot before telling anyone and only told them about 4 months in advance of the wedding - they didn't have time to change our minds on things even they wanted to! Magic. Have zero regrets now

Moonbeam

if you have regrets about it you can always have the "big wedding" at a later date.

Gretna Green - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretna_Green

Peregrinus

Nicman wrote: »

Well you also have to give your 3 months notice in Ireland still and will have to "legalise" it all either before you go away or after, from what I know. I might be wrong.

I don't think so. In general, as long as the wedding is valid according to the law of the place where it is celebrated, then Irish law will recognise its validity.

Nicman

Oh, my apologies. Thought you had to do it here too. Ok then do it! :-)