How did you get married?
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JD123d said:
I was having having a conversation with my other half about how we would get married, when we decide to do so, and I wondered what others had done? I suppose I am from a fairly traditional upbringing, whatever that means these days, and suggested that I would want family and friends there as I got married in a church. This idea appaulled her and she responded with:
Save money from the cost of my idea of a wedding so that we can get married at the Nurburgring. First of all this money would be used to get an amazing car (suggestions on a postcard). Her suggestion was we have two witnesses in the car with us while we go round the track and actually get married while lapping. We then spend the following week driving in the new car. Then head to California to go skiing for a week, then the following week sunning ourselves on the beach there.
This sounds awesome, and I would love it, but feel that if I were to agree she would come to regret it. Also I feel that some of my friends and family would feel very left out by this.
So... Any interesting stories to tell, and more importantly am I onto a winner?
Wouldn't doing a lap of the ring make it more about doing a lap of the ring than actually getting married?Save money from the cost of my idea of a wedding so that we can get married at the Nurburgring. First of all this money would be used to get an amazing car (suggestions on a postcard). Her suggestion was we have two witnesses in the car with us while we go round the track and actually get married while lapping. We then spend the following week driving in the new car. Then head to California to go skiing for a week, then the following week sunning ourselves on the beach there.
This sounds awesome, and I would love it, but feel that if I were to agree she would come to regret it. Also I feel that some of my friends and family would feel very left out by this.
So... Any interesting stories to tell, and more importantly am I onto a winner?
The Little Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Drove into town on Sunday evening, stopped at tourist information and they arranged everything:
Limo pick up from the Hilton, Town Hall for licence, ceremony (attended my me, wife, "vicar" and best man/witness/photographer Leon del Rodeo), back to Hilton - job done in less than an hour and for less than $250.
Told our parents when we returned to Blighty two weeks later.
That was seventeen years ago last Monday.
Drove into town on Sunday evening, stopped at tourist information and they arranged everything:
Limo pick up from the Hilton, Town Hall for licence, ceremony (attended my me, wife, "vicar" and best man/witness/photographer Leon del Rodeo), back to Hilton - job done in less than an hour and for less than $250.
Told our parents when we returned to Blighty two weeks later.
That was seventeen years ago last Monday.
My wife is Irish, so we had a traditional Irish wedding, albeit with only about 75 gests, rather than the hundreds the family wanted, although we did end up with one or two gatecrashers enticed at the free bar. One did lead the trad singalong though so I guess that's fair enough.
We bought all the wine in France and drove it over, and had the reception etc. at a nice local hotel. This was in 2002, so the Euro was much weaker, consequently it was, all things considered, not terribly expensive. A lot less than £10k anyway, although the exact amount escapes me now. Honeymoon was driving around the west coast of Ireland and climbing Croagh Patrick in dense fog.
It was a fantastic day and time, and I would not have had it any other way.
We bought all the wine in France and drove it over, and had the reception etc. at a nice local hotel. This was in 2002, so the Euro was much weaker, consequently it was, all things considered, not terribly expensive. A lot less than £10k anyway, although the exact amount escapes me now. Honeymoon was driving around the west coast of Ireland and climbing Croagh Patrick in dense fog.
It was a fantastic day and time, and I would not have had it any other way.
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