Wedding for 2 - help please!

Gretna Green?

Come up to Scotland, you can get married outside etc so you could have a lochside wedding or seaside for quite cheap and would still be different.

Deffo Gretna!!!

Thanks, I will definitely look into Scotland, I had not thought of there.

Gretna - Is that not for 'young lovers' ?

Kentish Lass, your report on Dartmoor sounded right up our street, cycling, walking, eating, just having time together with no agenda, maybe we could do something similar in Scotland, hiking, log cabin etc.

Fingers crossed, I have all day at home to try and get something in my wedding book!!!!

Thanks, I will definitely look into Scotland, I had not thought of there.

Gretna - Is that not for 'young lovers' ?

Kentish Lass, your report on Dartmoor sounded right up our street, cycling, walking, eating, just having time together with no agenda, maybe we could do something similar in Scotland, hiking, log cabin etc.

Fingers crossed, I have all day at home to try and get something in my wedding book!!!!

There are lots of opportunities for private weddings in Scotland.

Try www.weeweddings.co.uk as an example (not a recommendation as I haven't used them!!)

Ooh yes, Scotland would be beautiful for that type of break, yes! And Gretna isn't for kids only, I promise. I looked in to it. Simple and understated. Beautiful.

My TOG shot a wedding for 2 at a chateau in France which looked amazing http://janisratnieks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/destination-wedding-photography-in.html

Islington registry office in London is lovely you could then do a whole host of things around the city afterwards.

The Saddleworth Hotel do small weddings. Beautiful surroundings and when we visited they told us they were also the witnesses for the wedding!

Gretna green is for everyone not just young honest You'd love it.

I'd highly recommend The lodge on loch Lomond hotel, me & OH stayed there for a night and it's beautiful.
On the small sandy beach with loads of nice wee shops and touristy places nearby including bird of prey centre, places for hill walking etc, and a lovely pier that so many people have photos taken at for weddings.
They would marry just the 2 of you and have a lovely restaurant which also looks out to the loch and is just a very lovely place.
Our room had a view of the loch (stunning) and also a sauna in the bedroom, lovely bathroom just perfect. Also has an attached spa for couples on honeymoon etc.
We loved it and are thinking of going for a night or 2 after the wedding as we can't afford a big honeymoon x

We looked at Gretna too and they do all sizes of wedding (and ages!). If you're looking in Scotland, I'd recommend looking at Piperdam too - we've stayed in a lodge there a couple of times and loved it (especially the hot tub!). I'm not sure if they do small weddings or not but it's worth a look. I'm not sure of the prices etc but there were quite a few approved venues in North Yorkshire that said they did intimate weddings too.

If you were prepared to travel to Canada and Greece, would you go to Iceland? We saw a couple preparing to marry under a waterfall, just them and a minister of some sort, so laws must be different there to here.

Zanzibar, see my report below.

Thanks ladies some great ideas to investigate.

Trish, if you remember any of the North Yorkshire venues please do post, I have had a quick look but will investigate more tomorrow as well as Gretna, Scotland and Zanzibar?

My new mission is to book by Wednesday!

Ooh Wednesday, let us know how you get on x

We used www.zanzibarweddings.com and they were brilliant. Sjani is the wedding planner and is so helpful and flexible. We then used Imagine Africa to build a honeymoon around the trip.

Oooh an elopement! I've seen elopement photography before and it always looks beautiful, I would also suggest Scotland, get married on a remote mountain or something

Gosh I really don't know now. Today as it is raining I'm steering more towards a beautiful beach wedding, but then again is it really what we want? How do you ladies decide when there are so many places to choose from?

I would be hopeless if I had guests, bridesmaids, best man, gifts, invites and all the other million and one things to organise, how do you do it?

How did I decide, easy really... we wanted a C of E wedding. I am divorced and my local churches at the time refused to marry a divorcee. I also didn't want a huge production like my first marriages, and wanted something personal, intimate and meaningful. We could have gone to Scotland, but I was wary of the weather, plus some people would have tried to come with us.

A colleague had been to Zanzibar and raved about it, so I wondered if we could marry there. Then I found the website I mentioned earlier and found I could have either a civil or C of E service, alone, on the beach, with pretty much guaranteed sunshine. Didn't look any further and booked them!

I can't remember many (and this was just going off websites - I've not visited any) but here's a couple of ideas:

https://thepriestshouse.com/

http://www.markenfield.com/weddings/rooms/the-vaulted-study/

It's not the cheapest place in the world to buy things but for a cheap ryanair flight you,can go to (in my opinion!) the most beautiful country on the planet - Norway. Not sure about the legal laws and all that but if you are an outdoorsy person you should definitely check it out, I have been three times to a cabin on a lake and it's my official 'happy place' xxxx

Trish, thanks for these I will call them both today.

Barefoot, Zanzibar looks lovely, we have called Imagine Africa to put a quote together for us but on Safari then onto a few days on a beach in Kenya instead.

Still looking at Gretna, ceremony only is cheap but then 2 nights accommodation plus registrar and travel, will we be better putting that money towards getting married and honeymoon package?

My deadline from fiancée is to today to get something booked as we just keep going round in circles!!

One of the most amazing locations I've ever photographed, was Prague. The ceremony took place in a public gardens that was just immaculate and the city itself is breath taking

http://www.peterkelk.com/an-old-wedding-i-covered-in-prague-around-6-years-ago/

Pete x

Thanks Peter but we wanted somewhere neither of us had been to before and we have both been to Prague, which indeed was lovely as you have described. I am getting more confused by the hour now and will just give up soon I think.

No worries! I'd get married there in a heartbeat... Hope you don't give up, and find the perfect place.

Pete x