what did you get married in?

ailuro2 · 27 May 2007 at 8:01AM

peachespeaches wrote: »

We got married last week in Las Vegas in a wedding chapel.

CongraDulations, as your fellow Vegas travellers no doubt shouted at you;)

My favourite pic is one of us standing in front of a 10 foot tall cactus- no one else in the family has one quite like it:D

jackieb · 27 May 2007 at 8:07AM

I got married 20 years ago in a registry office. I didn't get married in a church because i'm not a hypocrite - I don't go to church and i've seen many members of my family attend and then stop once the wedding's taken place.

I might have got married in a hotel or somewhere else but I don't think it was really an option 20 years ago. I just wanted to get married though. I didn't want to have a big do.

nickinoo · 27 May 2007 at 9:40AM

We got married in a registry office as neither of us are religious, the same reason our daughter hasn't been christened.

hev_2 · 27 May 2007 at 10:09AM

I got married in Church, even though I didn't believe then, because it was the only place I could get married that my grandfather could get to. I know loads of people would love to get married in a country village church where there great-great grandfathers are buried, but I felt a right hypocrite. I have since come back to Christ (best thing I ever did) and I am now glad that I made my vows in Church. The hard thing was applying for a special license to get married in a church outside the parish you live in. That cost more than the cost of the church!

I have to say, the wedding and bridesmaid's dresses cost less than £100 (back in 1990) and I did a cheap evening do a week later in my home town. I suppose the whole thing came in at under £750. We are still together, and he still lights my fires! A woman we used to know was divorced before her parents had finished paying off the loan that they needed to pay for the wedding! Anybody else feel that (a lot of the time) the bigger the wedding, the quicker the divorce? I suppose it is the difference between wanting to be married and wanting to get married.

You can still have a huge all singing all dancing wedding and a lasting and happy marriage. I just think that sometimes the wedding becomes the ends and not the means.

IMO, anyway

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shegha · 27 May 2007 at 5:39PM

we got married in las vegas in 20ft up a rock in the valley of fire at sunset
best day ever:D

sukey13 · 27 May 2007 at 6:36PM

We had a civil wedding at a fantastic manor house called Dillington House in Ilminster.

I had a beautiful (second hand - but noone knew that) ivory dress.

madmum33 · 27 May 2007 at 7:41PM

Inactive wrote: »

I got married in my suit..

I was ready to go into my reasons for hiring a wedding dress until I saw it was the choice of PLACE not the choice of dress :rotfl:

We got married 18 years ago in a church, although I would have been happy to marry in a registry office, but my Dad made a big mistake and suggested the registry office and of course my OH was stubborn! :rolleyes:

Pumpkin_2 · 28 May 2007 at 10:17AM

I got married in Egypt in front of two statues that would have once had a temple behind them. Poor hubby sweltered in a kilt!!

teedy23 · 28 May 2007 at 10:38AM

I got married in a registry office, this was because the priest at my parish church wanted notes of consent from both our parents, as we were both 17 and of mixed faith ( me catholic,hubby to b protestant). As we were doing it on the sneak we couldnt ask our parents