How did you get married?
- Thread starter Melvil
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Tetedelacourse
New Member
- Location
- Rosyth
Melvil, are you sharking? 
We got married in church. A bit silly really, never been inside one since, nor before in my adult life apart from the obligatory few sermons to get to know the minister. We both have a faith of some sort but not the church-going sort. It seemed right for us though. Certainly made the occassion seem grander, more reverential, although that was only secondary.
We got married in church. A bit silly really, never been inside one since, nor before in my adult life apart from the obligatory few sermons to get to know the minister. We both have a faith of some sort but not the church-going sort. It seemed right for us though. Certainly made the occassion seem grander, more reverential, although that was only secondary.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
in a really nice little pub/hotel. had the full day there, saved everyone shuffling around venues, and had a bar open all day.
Stan
New Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Should the question be "why?". Got married in a Church, spent a fortune, hated every moment, got divorced.
Never again (but don't tell the prospective Mrs Stan!)
Never again (but don't tell the prospective Mrs Stan!)
Tetedelacourse said:Melvil, are you sharking?
We got married in church. A bit silly really, never been inside one since, nor before in my adult life apart from the obligatory few sermons to get to know the minister. We both have a faith of some sort but not the church-going sort. It seemed right for us though. Certainly made the occassion seem grander, more reverential, although that was only secondary.
Tete, your leetspeak is getting me all confused...what is sharking?
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
In a council office in Japan - we went on our bikes and then were sent away for a day whilst the bureaucrats debated whether I was allowed to have a Japanese name or not... we did eventually get married the next day and then had a semi-traditional wedding party (in kimono, but not in traditional wedding gear) in the community where we were living at the time. I'll try to dig out a photo.
Melvil said:
Church not particularly religious but had sung at said church for 30 years before getting married (was minus 9 when I started!) so it was a simple but lovely musical occasion with many friends around. We had traditional service and learnt our vows off by heart (mind you I'd sung at thousands of weddings so knew them already!). I did the obey bit so had no choice but to agree to the divorce! No regrets though lovely wedding lovely marriage, great kids unforuntately Mr Willow disagreed.
Tetedelacourse
New Member
- Location
- Rosyth
Melvil said:
YOU know Melvedere. Stop acting all
On the pull, surveying the land for single young unsuspecting madamoiselles
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Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Me and "Mrs" Fnaar have been happily unmarried for 17 years now
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
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Twenty Inch
Guru
- Location
- Behind a desk
In the Palace of Matrimony no. 1, on the Angliskaya Naberezhnaya in St. Petersburg. This was the first Palace of Matrimony to open in Russia after demand for secular rituals to replace church ones increased in the 1950s. Under communism prior to this, marriage was a suspect bourgeois institution, and you got "married" (or divorced) by signing a form at the local Civil records office and it took about 5 minutes. However people wanted more, and so the Palace of Matrimony phenomenon started.
Palace of Matrimony no. 1 was built in a real palace that had belonged to an exiled nobleman (who himself had been married 8 times). It was amazing - all gilt mirrors and marble staircases.
Later, at the reception, my academic supervisor from LSE made a nice speech, during which he revealed that he had written his Master's thesis on the rise of the secular ritual in the Soviet Union 35 years ago, and had researched it in that very Palace of Matrimony.
Palace of Matrimony no. 1 was built in a real palace that had belonged to an exiled nobleman (who himself had been married 8 times). It was amazing - all gilt mirrors and marble staircases.
Later, at the reception, my academic supervisor from LSE made a nice speech, during which he revealed that he had written his Master's thesis on the rise of the secular ritual in the Soviet Union 35 years ago, and had researched it in that very Palace of Matrimony.
