Anybody getting married?

Made me chuckle, me and Mrs Dinosaw avoided this sort of malarky by getting married at the registry office and only inviting 5 people, that meant only 5 idiots with the potential to ruin your day then rather than 150! :lol:
 
That's a co-incidence Dinosaw, we did exactly the same thing. Few months later so did two friends. Think weddings nowadays have gone a bit silly expensive as well as silly behaviour. At a friends wedding someone got very drunk, aggressive and ended up falling onto his father breaking his father's leg in the process.
 
Yes we too got married in a register office, partly because we didn't want to start out making our promises in a religious environment we didn't believe in, and mainly because we were newly-graduated students with literally no money until our first payday, weeks away at the end of a month's work. My widowed mum couldn't have afforded a big wedding, not that we wanted it anyway, but back in 1962 you HAD to be married if you wanted to be able to rent a flat together. No living in sin in those days! Of course, everyone was interested in my waistline during ensuing months, as in those days it wasn't the done thing to have a civil wedding, unless you were pregnant and thus didn't qualify for a white dress. So I think there were about 10 people in all to lunch back at my mums house. Maybe it was a bit more Spartan than I would have wished, but I still have never understood how a young couple just starting out wouldn't rather have any money that was going to set up a home, than blue it all on The Big Day.
53 years later, we're still going strong - and to everyone's disappointment, our first child didn't appear until 1968!
 
Marigold said:
and to everyone's disappointment, our first child didn't appear until 1968!
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You mean that you were pregnant for 6 years!!!! :o

Sorry Marigold, I just couldn't resist.

53 years together is a great achievement and I bet with it being 1962 you both look very stylish on your wedding photos, we both look a bit naff on ours with it being 1997.

Apparently the average cost of a wedding today is £22000 Chris, which is certainly silly money for one day and as Marigold said it could give you a deposit for a home.

All three of us having small weddings seems to prove the old proverb that 'Birds of a feather flock together' , just like our chickens.
 
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