Sometimes i wonder what drags people to
elope. If everybody around you is against
your love affair,then why insisting? Don't
you think you wil keep having problems?
Please what are your views on this topic?
Just curious.

Of course I would only date a reasonable guy. I don't understand why I ever WOULDN'T. As for affairs, they can go to hell. Idc what people think of whoever I'm in a relationship with, as they are just onlookers. It's mine and his life together that matters. Screw what people happen to think of it. It's between me and him only.

Sometimes eloping is easier, it saves any hassel and it would be fun to sneak off with the man you love and get married.

COME ON MAN!!!

IT'S ROMANTIC!!!

Why should it matter if other people are against it? What matters is what's going on with the two people who are together. If eloping is what they want to do, I don't see a problem with it.

I agree with the posters here that it is romantic and yes, it really cut expenses of having traditional wedding these days. You know they say an average wedding cost is? Try 20,000 dollars! Cost of a car! Geez! Try elope or very very simple wedding. I was married before. I am divorced now but um, my wedding only cost me 500 dollars! Not bad. 52 guests, we made our own food, and stuff. No church fancy.. it was outdoors at my sister's farm.

Now, you can still elope because its more romantic.. try beach wedding in the tropics such as Bahamas, USVI, Jamaica, etc. or if you like vegas style, go to vegas.. Or if you want Niaraga Falls US/Canada, does not matter which side.. you can do it.. Or in the middle of the desert where the UFOs crashed in Roswell. Haha. I am being funny on that part but the point is, if that is where you want to be.. thats great because maybe you are a UFO fan.. so, you can get married anywhere that define romantic to you both. Have a simple reception or dinner at a retaurant after you have eloped. That way, maybe 10 to 20 guests you can do it at Denny's if you want to. They do have back room up to 20 guests for reserved only.

For that reception after elope party, you dont have to pay a dime for everyone. They will pay for you. They pool in money. Not the same as if you were going to reserve a ballroom at a restaurant and will be billed with tips and perhaps room fee. So, think of budget cutting that way.

Next one, I want to get married is.. really elope down there on the tropical island.. or tropical land like Costa Rica.. Muchas bellas en centroamerica. si.

I personally wouldn't elope because of my Christian family and I would want them all there... Also we can have a pot luck dinner in the Lee Fellowship Hall. that's all the cost would be and because I'm a member they would work with us on budgeting so we could start our marriage off right not the wrong side, like we're trying to hide something

i guess it depends on what your definition of reasonable is...

My question is why do reasonable people spend thousands on elaborate weddings...

You better not be dissing my Star Wars Wedding.

My question would be if they spent thousands getting married, surely they can spend as much when they get divorced by having 'divorce parties', at separate locations, of course and have it all photographed just as they did for the wedding. It is long overdue to have Divorce Photographers to capture all those special moments such as the ripping apart or burning of the marriage certificate, the honeymoon photographs throwing darts at the former mate's face blown up for a dart board...lots of very special moments to document for your 'oh what a relief it is' times in your life...all preserved in an album that you will cherish forever; certainly longer than your wedding....

I think in communities where inter dependence is less of an issue who decides to be with whom looses importance.

It used to be that weddings were a "bonding" ceremony of two families supporting the union now it is more of a contest who can out do who and in my view a giant waste of money on people that really don't care how the bride and groom do in the present or the future. Vows are pretty much irrelevant and as worthless as the filing fee for a divorce. Most of the guests are people that only remotely know the participants.

What distresses me most it is rarely even a declaration of love for each other so I kind of wonder why so many do it except it is a way to stick the parents with a huge bill. Many cases each other.

I think in some cases it is more to give some kind of social legitamacy to the family unit which now days often includes an existing child or two. Since it rarely changes what is on the birth certificate I don't get that concept either. Seems like the money would be better spent securueing home ownership.

As far as anyones approval and endorsement I don't think that holds water for very many nowdays. maybe for a marginal few on a religious basis but that is rare.

In the UK what caused some to elope was their age, and the legal requirement for parental consent for those aged 16 the minimum age to marry in England, at age 18 this is not required. However, in Scotland parental consent is not required at age 16, so where there was family objection young couples aged 16 fled/eloped to Scotland to marry, and the nearest place to England is Gretna Green. Even so, I think it is very romantic for couples to elope at any age, particularly when there is dissent in the family to their marrying.

Tisk, tisk...That sounds so heartless Traumer

so they can have enough money to get the hotwings deal at Red Lobster

Honey baby?

11.99 30 piece shrimp deal right now...