On 12/8/2012 9:02 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/7/2012 6:42 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 07/12/2012 3:58 PM, George Leppla wrote:
>>> On 12/7/2012 2:38 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hell. They don't have to go to all that effort. My brother and his
>>>> wife
>>>> eloped to Jamaica to get married. They didn't have any guests at all.
>>>
>>> Becca and I did the same thing. Everybody had their own ideas on
>>> how/when/where we should get married. We couldn't please everyone and
>>> we did NOT want a big wedding, so we booked a wedding package at an
>>> all-inclusive resort in Jamaica and we only told close family members
>>> shortly before we left. The resort handled all the details (license,
>>> minister, cake, flowers, etc).
>>>
>>> It was beautiful.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's the way to do it. If you are going to elope, take off,.. just the
>> two of you. Don't expect everyone else to take at leas a week of
>> vacation time and spend thousands of dollars to attend. Just make
>> arrangements for the two of you to take off and include the ceremony in
>> your honeymoon.
>>
>>
> A very good friend of mine did just that. They didn't make a secret
> they were getting married so it wasn't an elopement, per se. But they
> did fly off to the Bahamas to get married. Just the two of them. She
> said it was much easier than trying to please everyone on both sides of
> the family. No bridal shower, no wedding registry.
>
> I *did* give her one of those recipe holder notebooks with the plastic
> sleeves for recipe cards. I filled it with handwritten cards for
> (mostly) silly things like "Barbequed Raccoon". She was a Southern
> belle, born and raised in TN. He was from Boston. They got a kick out
> of that wedding present

After we got back, we sent a simple announcement to all our friends and
family telling them that we were married and sent some pictures. I am
sure some were disappointed, but no one said anything negative.

Secretly, some of our friends got together and made up a quilt from old
group cruise t-shits and other memorabilia then from many years of
group cruising and land parties we attended. Each person made a square
and one person put it all together. They gave it to us on a cruise
later that year. It was one of the most touching gifts we have been given.

They also put together a "wedding album" full of pictures of us going
back to 1997. It was way cool!

George L