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
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
…
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.