This Saturday morning I’m jumping on a plane with the (soon-to-be) Mrs. Freedom. We are heading off to Bermuda for a week and getting married.
No one knows.
Not our parents, not our friends, not even the people from work.
So, does anyone have any advice on how we should break the news when we get back?
We are considering having announcements printed up, and then mailing them out the day we get back to everyone who would have been invited . Then we would tell all the parents and siblings before the rest of the people received the announcements. I figure that we might put up a web site and post our story and pictures for everyone to see, so that they feel sort of included.
This is the one part we really didn’t plan:)
Speaking as athe father of three daughters, bless you! You are an inspiration.
Every night, as they sleep, I whisper in their ears, “Elope!”
How we broke the news:
With hubby’s folks, we went over the next day and he said “Guess what we did yesterday…”
With my folks, it was less straightforward - they’re not as open-minded.
I’m not sure how we told anyone else. After 17+ years, one forgets the details.
Well, after that, you may have to change your username…
When my wife and I eloped (1995), we drove up to Carson City, NV, for spring break and got married at a JP that first Monday. After Spring Break was over and we were back in town, we just let the Small Town Rumor Mill[sup]TM[/sup] take care of it for us: just let one wag know, and then when someone would ask one of us to confirm or deny the rumor that we’d eloped, we’d reply: “yep.”
Gotta love Nevada… my second favorite state.
Anyway, that’s how we “announced” it.
Made a “dinner” date with our bests friends, told them it was black tie but not the destination. I glanced into the rear view mirror as we pulled into the Chappel parking lot, the look on thier faces was priceless! after a brief ceremony we to Las Margaritas For dinner. The brides Father was working the swing shift at the time so about midnight we went over to her folks place and told them, her dad almost fell over and had to sit a while. we just called my family the next day. That was 14 years ago, but I remember it like it happened yesterday.
We sort of planned the wedding out pretty well. We are getting married on a cliff, we are taking a horse a carriage (insert other romantic stuff in here) etc…etc…
So far we are 6 days away, and neither of us are stressed. It seems a little sureal. I almost feel like nothing is happening. (maybe this was her plan:))
I decided to order announcements today. We are going to try and make a whirlwind tour of the parents (3 stops) and then mail out the announcements.
I contacted the local paper today, and I think we are going to put an announcement in there as well.
That should pretty much handle getting the word out, but I was hoping to hear some cool ways to break the news. If we weren’t already going to Bermuda, I think I would be considering the surprise ceremony:)
Congrats Freedom! Whoo Hoooo!
You will have to post some pics for us to see your elopement (is that a word?)
Anyhow congrats to you and your bride-to-be!
You could send them a link to this thread.
I have been calling it that myself for a couple fo months now. If it’s not a word, then it should be:)
We are off. I’m going to have a web page with all of our pictures on it when we get back. That way people will feel a little more connected to it. After a couple of weeks, I’ll take off our personal info and post the link.