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Me & DP have decided that we are getting married. Anyone got married at their local registry? We think that we just want to go there & elope without telling anyone. Initially when we got engaged a year & a bit ago, we wanted a big wedding with all the frills, but since then we got pregnant & had DS, so our priorities have changed a lot.
Any tips/ideas/advice about getting married at the melbourne registry office?
Im not from melborne but dh and I were married in a registry office. It was however very rushed because dh was going to get deported unless we were married within a month, but it all worked out :)
I dont know about the office down there, but the one up here was very nice. It was clean, simple, and private. You can still dress up if you like.
We actually went to the botanical gardens afterwards so we could still get some nice photos, and then we went somewhere so I could get changed, then we went for a walk around the casino and done a few other things, and had a few people that wanted to come meet us at a nice restaurant so that we could still have a nice dinner.
All in all it was very nice. Theres a few things I would have changed, mainly because it was so rushed, but it didnt have much to do with the registry office.
Good luck with it all :)...Its deffinately alot simpler to plan then a big wedding with all the trimmings ;)
Dh and I got married at the registry office...not in melb though.
I bought a nice burgendy dress and had my hair done, hubby bought a new casual suit, we hired a nice wedding car to take us there, and we had just a few close friends and both our parents and siblings there too.
Afterwards, we met the rest of our family and friends at a seafood resturant for dinner and a wedding cake...then we went out nightclubbing (we were youngungs back then..lol). I wouldn't change my wedding day at all. It was inexpensive, we asked those who came to dinner to buy there own food and drink and NO WEDDING PRESENTS...dh and I already lived together and had everything anyway....it was great :thumbsup:
Harlequin
15-07-2007, 17:48
I didn't get married in a registry office, I got the next best thing which was to just hire a celebrant and have him come to our house to marry us.
We actually had my husbands parents present (mine are in Sydney), but you could just have the celebrant and you, dress up nice and get him to take a couple of photos for you.
Plus he handles all the paperwork then too :)
I attended a wedding in the registry office in Brisbane. It was a nice place with very nice settings, could seat up to about 40+ people, and the celebrant was nice. During the whole ceremony, it didn't feel like a registry office at all. However, I'm not sure how it is down there. Anyway, hope everything works out for you!
pookiesossige
15-07-2007, 20:39
A girl who was my best friend for my entire childhood (and we are still quite close now) was married in the Melbourne reg. office just a couple of months ago :)
I get the impression that it was lovely- affordable and simple, a nice room to have photos in with lovely decor etc. They had some photos taken on the steps and in a park and she wore a simple sage dress and he wore a suit.... pinched a couple of single flowers from a florist on the walk there to wear in his pocket and in her hair :laughing:
cutiegirl
16-07-2007, 00:33
i eloped a few yrs ago my partner and i went travelling thought we would spend the money that way instead of doing a one day thing we travelled up top broome in a camper van for 3 months stopping at different places and went to england and eloped there and travelling around a bit and came back and started a family i think its a special day just for the 2 of u and u save so much money and no stress in planning a huge wedding....
SilverStarfish
16-07-2007, 07:37
I was a witness at a friend's wedding at the Arimidale Court House a few years ago. He wore a suit, she wore a lovely cream dress. We signed all the paperwork and then had a nice quiet dinner at a restaurant together. Her family was interstate, his was overseas. They wedding suited them perfectly :yes:
Thanks so much for all your lovely stories, it doesnt sound too bad after all!
bekkyboo
16-07-2007, 12:37
We had a registry wedding last year here in Brisbane, ive got some photos on my photobucket if you would like to see what at least brissys registry office weddings look like...
It was really nice and cheap :) Private and not a fluro light in sight! :laughing:
Ange&Seth
16-07-2007, 12:45
but you could just have the celebrant and you, dress up nice and get him to take a couple of photos for you.
Plus he handles all the paperwork then too :)
Don't you have to have witnesses?
We had a registry wedding last year here in Brisbane, ive got some photos on my photobucket if you would like to see what at least brissys registry office weddings look like...
It was really nice and cheap :) Private and not a fluro light in sight! :laughing:
Yes please Bekky :yes: I'd love to see the photos !!
mum2bubba
16-07-2007, 12:48
Me & DP have decided that we are getting married. Anyone got married at their local registry? We think that we just want to go there & elope without telling anyone. Initially when we got engaged a year & a bit ago, we wanted a big wedding with all the frills, but since then we got pregnant & had DS, so our priorities have changed a lot.
Any tips/ideas/advice about getting married at the melbourne registry office?
This is what I want to do. I just want to elope (maybe at the reg office in Melbourne) with a few close friends and family as witnesses, then go out for lunch or dinner somewhere. I don't want a bridal party (except for Hayley and Skye as flower girls), I don't want the whole big wedding, its just not me. Anyway, I have no advice just wanted to wish you luck.
I wouls love to see your pics too Becky.. We have no idea what we want to do yet but we are in Bris and this might be an option! We hae always thought we might just go and get married and then have a big party to celebrate with everyone!
Good luck Leane7!! I am sure whatever youdo will be beautiful!
bekkyboo
16-07-2007, 12:56
Here is the ones i have up at the moment... Ill upload some more now of actually inside the regisitry.
http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/n111/The_Lee_Family/Our%20Wedding/
Harlequin
16-07-2007, 15:24
Don't you have to have witnesses?
Yeah I think you do actually.
My mil was a witness iirc, but I recall our celebrant saying his wife could be the witness and take photos if we wanted :)
SilverStarfish
16-07-2007, 15:48
Yup, you do have to have witnesses - though it can be anyone.
A nice story about a registry office wedding...
It was a long long time ago, a friend, Vicki, was a nurse. Back then nurses were not allowed to get married so she and her husband secretly eloped on a Friday afternoon. When they were told they needed witnesses, my friend went out onto the street and stopped a friendly looking lady and asked her, if she wasn't busy, would she like to come to a wedding!
The lady was delighted and together they chose a hansom looking gentlemen to be the other witness - who actually turned out to be a childhood friend of Vicki's fiance!
They were married Friday night, on Saturday they announced their "Engagement" at a party and hid their secret until Vicki left her position.
They were happily married for nearly 50 years until she passed away in while I was pregnant with Sarah. One of Sarah's middle names is Victoria - after Vicki.
Such a nice story, thanks everyone... & the pics were lovely too bekkyboo.
We decided to have our ceremony at the Perth registry office. Melbourne is even nicer, I'd have no hesitation having a wedding there. :)
PunkyDiva
20-07-2007, 21:56
Some close friends married in Brissy Registry just with witnesses, then we all chipped in(instead of gifts) and rented out a huge old home in Toowoomba and about 30 of us partied the weekend away together in celebration. Was the best wedding celebration ever in my opinion and they were able to afford a 3 month o/s honeymoon.
DH and I eloped to New Zealand where he's from and didn't tell anyone we were going there to get married. We'd been together 8 years so didn't want a big deal made out of it.
On the morning of the marriage we got our hiking boots on, then we went to a beach, kicked off our boots dashed down the sand dunes in bare feet and jeans/t-shirts. He gave me a Tiffany platinum wedding band that he had bought in Melbourne and said some loving words, it was very romantic with the waves lapping at our feet.
Once our feet were suitably frozen we went back up to the car and drove back into town. A bit later on in the morning we went to the registry and legalised the marriage. When we first got to the registry office I laughed when one of the ladies said "So, you're here for the wedding" the same as you would say "so you're here to pick up your lay-by". Very funny.
That night back at his parents house we told them the news that we had gotten married, and then hit them with the news that I was 18 weeks pregnant!
Good luck with whatever you end up doing!
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