Step 1: go to courthouse
Step 2: get marriage license
Step 3: get told it won’t be effective for like a week, idk why
Step 4: pick a venue
Step 5: …realise that’s hard work and end up going back to the courthouse
Step 6: get told there’s a waiting list and the next opening is in two weeks
Step 7: go back to courthouse on the big day
Step 8: stand in the not-really-chapel chapel
Step 9: try not to laugh at the intense seriousness of the moment and handful of people watching you
Step 10: PROFIT
Didn’t “Eloping” used to mean you had to sneak the girl out of her father’s house without her dad shooting you, get legally married in a cheap Vegas church in 15 minutes, and move somewhere without giving your relatives a forwarding address so they couldn’t express their complete disapproval of the union at you?
I feel like the old meaning’s been abandoned for “Let’s have a small, but ultimately normal-ish wedding.”
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Step 1: go to courthouse
Step 2: get marriage license
Step 3: get told it won’t be effective for like a week, idk why
Step 4: pick a venue
Step 5: …realise that’s hard work and end up going back to the courthouse
Step 6: get told there’s a waiting list and the next opening is in two weeks
Step 7: go back to courthouse on the big day
Step 8: stand in the not-really-chapel chapel
Step 9: try not to laugh at the intense seriousness of the moment and handful of people watching you
Step 10: PROFIT
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alternately: Vegas
If you’re running a story, though, aren’t you legally obligated to include wacky hijinks involving one or more Elvis impersonators?
Eloping is more complicated than I thought. But probably still much less complicated than having a more traditional wedding.
I mean, it might be less complicated in other states, that was the Maryland Experience
Ah, fellow Marylander!
Kids these days.
Didn’t “Eloping” used to mean you had to sneak the girl out of her father’s house without her dad shooting you, get legally married in a cheap Vegas church in 15 minutes, and move somewhere without giving your relatives a forwarding address so they couldn’t express their complete disapproval of the union at you?
I feel like the old meaning’s been abandoned for “Let’s have a small, but ultimately normal-ish wedding.”