Hi all,
My partner and I have been together for 9 years and have a 5 month old son. We would like to get married and make our family complete and legal and official. Our original idea was a small service with family present. I made the mistake of telling my mum and sister this so now that's what they think is happening.
However, we have been having a change of heart recently. We both dread the thought of standing in front of people saying vows. It's not us. We are not openly social, centre of attention people and we also both feel that marriage is between 2 people and we shouldn't have to do it in front of others to 'price's anything.
So we've recently been thinking that we would like to put on a nice dress and suit, get a train to the town hall, find witnesses in the reception get married and go for a meal with our son. We wouldn't tell family until we wanted to.
I have a feeling my mum and sister won't be very happy about this, they are both very wedding-y people.
Has anyone else ever done this? How did it go and how did your family take it?
Ultimately it is our day and we should be allowed to do it in a way that suits us as a family. We will not pay thousands to impress other people.
