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  • littlezotz May 7, 2011 @ 9:26 pm | delete
    I liked this, but I also wish you had covered a bit more of the "technical" stuff... Like how to go about getting the marriage license and so on. Knowing about the fun stuff of eloping is great, but knowing how to get TO the fun stuff would have been really helpful to me. (Maybe you could do a sequel to this lens? *hint hint*)
  • jen Feb 16, 2011 @ 12:11 pm | delete
    Check out Donna's Premier Lodging in Ohio's gorgeous Amish Country, at www.Donnasofberlin.com for amazing, low cost elopement choices! You can get married in from of an outdoor OR indoor waterfall, take a ride in an Amish buggy or have an old-fashioned sleigh ride (winter)Prices start at $150, for just the ceremony, up to a pkg for only $550 that includes ceremony, cake, flowers, cheese and cider reception, romance gift basket, and in your room, rose petals and candles, a one hour couples' massage, and a hot country breakfast! Of course, you choose the type of accommodations that best fit you, and that is an additional cost. The countryside/scenery is gorgeous any time of the year there. Greatest innkeeper and staff imaginable - VERY romantic!
  • Allister Dec 5, 2010 @ 10:37 pm | delete
    Great Lens! If Eloping to Australia is what you are looking for then there is a great package for you at http://www.lovingimages.com.au/eloping.html They really look after you and make it very easy :)
  • Allister Dec 5, 2010 @ 10:34 pm | delete
    Great Lens! If Eloping to Australia is what you are looking for then there is a great package for you at http://www.lovingimages.com.au/eloping.html They really look after you and make it very easy :)
  • purplelady Nov 15, 2010 @ 5:47 pm | delete
    I have added this lens to the featured lenses sidebar widget on my bridal showers after elopement monkey brains duel lens. Your lens has a lot of great ideas for anyone contemplating elopement.
  • Gloriousconfusion Nov 9, 2010 @ 7:19 am | delete
    I've just come back last night from a playreading of Sheridan's "She Stoops to Conquer", about a planned elopement - coincidence or what? I wouldn't mind trying some of these places myself, but no plans to elope just yet.
  • ruilus May 18, 2010 @ 12:17 pm | delete
    And for those eloping couples who can enjoy great architecture and have passion for artistic photography: San FGrancisco City Hall wedding Slideshow
    San Francisco City Hall of course... People from all around a world getting married there.
    Place is gorgeous.
  • sandiegobeachweddings Jan 29, 2010 @ 9:52 pm | delete
    Love your lens!
    Of course, I'm a bit biased.... I happen to have a boutique beach elopement service in Sunny San Diego, California. Couples are crazy about it, the beach, the sun, the simplicity, saving money, and honeymooning on the spot! Very affordable packages for small ceremonies and elopements with gorgeous photos, officiant, flowers. My website is: http://www.ElopeSanDiego.com My BLOG: http://elopetosandiego.blogspot.com/
    Keep up the great Lens! x0x0 christine
  • WG-Tiaras Jan 2, 2009 @ 1:27 am | delete
    Great lens, I've rated it highly. If you haven't done already feel free to add it to the wedding planning group. Also feel free to check out my wedding related lenses by visiting my profile page.
  • NoFear Nov 29, 2008 @ 5:27 am | in reply to carley | delete
    if you spend your time fitting your wedding around other people, trust me sweetie, you'll do it for the rest of your life. your marriage will be overthrown, then your children, and before you no it you will have pleased everyone else all your life and not yourself! you only live once babes, so don't live for others. live for yourself. if your parents love you as much as you think they do, they will understand. if they continue making YOUR wedding day about THEM.... well, there is your answer. good luck hunni! :)
  • modernjane Sep 28, 2008 @ 1:44 pm | delete
    I've had three weddings (all to the same guy and all within a few months of each other). None of them were a big productions. The Vegas wedding was the most fun and we still had a lot of friends and family who came along. Just because you are running off and getting married doesn't mean that you can't invite others along for the ride.

    click here if you want to read a bit about my three weddings
  • Gigglesoup Sep 23, 2008 @ 8:02 pm | delete
    Hey, Emily

    How about hiring an officiant to marry you at one of Santa Barbara's beaches? You can get a very affordable wedding package by using "Santa Barbara Weddings by Beverly," an ordained, non-denominational, interfaith minister. Her website is weddingsbybeverly.com.

    There's the El Presidio de Santa Barbara Chapel for rent, but it'll cost about $1,000 for 6 hours.
  • Emily Sep 23, 2008 @ 6:43 pm | delete
    Ughh.. I am so sick of weddings! I am a stylist for weddings, and it being September already, I have been watching bride-zillas for 5 months in a row now. Me and my fiancee have been engaged for a year and a half, and keep putting off our wedding because of family issues (we have a major age difference and my family isn't thrilled), and money issues (this is the second round for both of us, and we're over it). I came up witht e idea of elopement, we are still talking it over, but more than anything, it just sounds like a relief. I live in California.. Santa Barbara to be exact. Does anyone know of a great wedding chapel here, or should we just go to the courthouse? Thanks for any/all input!!
  • carley Sep 16, 2008 @ 6:28 am | delete
    Help!
    We want to elope, it has been that has been that way from the get go, however, my parents, (mother)said she doesn't feel she could attend a reception with out seeing me get married and how my father wants to walk me down the aisle! we want to go to nevada or maine, but i want my parents there,what should i do, we have huge families, my small intimate is everyone because we are close!the other is if we do one side we have to do teh other and friends. it is all family .
  • eloper Aug 24, 2008 @ 11:57 pm | delete
    i have to say, eloping can be a great idea! my family is not entirely thrilled--i am an only child--but i think they're getting used to the idea. meanwhile, i get to have all the intimacy and strong feeling of a marriage without the madness of a wedding. it's hard for me to imagine spending so much time and money for one day--i don't think any of that would make it more memorable for me than being outside with my husband-to-be and having time to be peaceful and quiet together for the rest of the day.
  • Amanda_Blue Aug 12, 2008 @ 1:22 pm | delete
    This site is a lot of fun, Gigglesoup; I'm only sorry to discover that eloping has become an institution all its own since I'm all for the old-fashioned kind of eloping in which only the elopers know of the plan and steal away by the light of the moon... 5*
  • Joseph Aug 12, 2008 @ 11:37 am | delete
    See destination photos in San Francisco City Hall. Mostly eloping couples. SF City Hall is a beautiful place to elope.
  • EasyW Mar 20, 2008 @ 12:44 pm | delete
    Liked the lens ;)
  • Weddingzilla Mar 15, 2008 @ 2:33 pm | delete
    Love your lens. Good information!
  • zandaloo Feb 25, 2008 @ 7:21 pm | delete
    After my husband and I got married (85 people) 10 years ago we both had wished we had eloped. Not that it wasn't a fun wedding, just that it is so much effort and cost to have a wedding. There's always the little dramas too, that you have to deal with. My mother's boyfriend literally drank himself to death (he really did die!) because she didn't invite him. Bah.
    It's far easier to focus on your spouse if you don't have to worry about the caterer, the cake, the tablecloths, the DJ, the site, etc...
  • daybreak Feb 14, 2008 @ 8:55 am | delete
    Thanks for the great lens!

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