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Originally Posted by midwife
I guess I'm a rebel, but what exactly is the deal with not being able to get married outside unless there is a fixed roof? Is it a fine, jail time, is the marriage null and void? Couldn't you have the ceremony in the garden and step into the kitchen for another quick "Do you? I do. Do you? I do!" and sign the papers under a fixed roof but do everything else the way you want it outside? I don't often suggest people break the law....and I'm not in this post....but could you bend it a little maybe? That is a really stupid law.....makes me want to go throw some tea into the Boston harbor.
Ha ha! I like your style, I'm a bit of a rebel too. Unfortunately the house is not an option either as it's not a "licenced wedding venue"! Grrr...
Please feel welcome to go and throw your tea, I don't like it anyway
Thanks to everyone for replying! Your advice and stories are really helpful. So far I have found a couple of licenced places that have fixed gazebo's in a garden (like stately homes etc) where you can get married. I don't know if they would allow me to just have a civil ceremony there though or if you have to have the whole wedding shebang, which I'm not interested in.
I am thinking something along these lines and the moment:
Ceremony - as short and simple as possible, preferably outside somewhere pretty and not costing an arm and a leg. No wedding dinner, no schmultzy cake cutting, no posed pictures etc... just get married, rinse and go!
Party - Go back to my parents garden, light the coals and have a big ole barbecue with a few friends and family.
No gifts, definitely no speeches, just lots of time to spend with my husband-to-be and to have a dance with family.
I was thinking it would be nice to all walk over to the fields together near our house when it got dark and light some lanterns in to the sky or something...?
I would love to save enough money by having a low-key wedding so that we could have a really amazing honeymoon.