Gretna Green

[Captain Turdseye]

Have any of you ever got married there? Any of the Jocks got any recommendations for stuff to do or avoid there?

 

We're seriously considering just going with the kids in May and getting it done. We've tentatively looked around at various places to get married but with us both living miles away from our families it would be a lot of stress trying to organise it so everyone could come. Inviting nobody seems the fairest way of doing it. That's before you even get started on the cost and where to draw the line on who to invite. We can get a nice package up there with a couple of nights in a nice hotel for under a grand, stress free. We'd still need suits, dresses, rings, etc but it would still come in way under the thousands it would cost for a proper do.

 

Talk me out of it.

[Lee909]

Why pay the big money for a big wedding. Better spending the money on a holiday after a cheaper wedding imo,or go on holiday and get married while there

[Captain Turdseye]

Why pay the big money for a big wedding. Better spending the money on a holiday after a cheaper wedding imo,or go on holiday and get married while there

Yeah, thankfully she's of the same opinion. Thinking of a nice family holiday because the kids have never been abroad then I'll whisk her off to Amsterdam for a weekend for some sexy time.

[setreal]

Nae.

[Champ]

Naw.

Fixed that for you.

[Champ]

Have any of you ever got married there? Any of the Jocks got any recommendations for stuff to do or avoid there?

We're seriously considering just going with the kids in May and getting it done. We've tentatively looked around at various places to get married but with us both living miles away from our families it would be a lot of stress trying to organise it so everyone could come. Inviting nobody seems the fairest way of doing it. That's before you even get started on the cost and where to draw the line on who to invite. We can get a nice package up there with a couple of nights in a nice hotel for under a grand, stress free. We'd still need suits, dresses, rings, etc but it would still come in way under the thousands it would cost for a proper do.

Talk me out of it.

Gretna is a retail outlet and a few hotels in the middle of nowhere. Will that do?

 

On the other hand, it might be a laugh

[Mook]

I'm from quite near there & went to the market at Gretna once about 20 years ago.

 

Fuck all else to do there other than get married really, you can get the best ice cream in the World at Pelosi's in Langholm which is about 20 miles up the road, there's a good chippy in Longtown, also nearby & the scenery near Moffat is beautiful, not a million miles away either.

 

Good decision btw, I would advise anyone getting married to fuck off & do it on the fly, the amount of hassle people cause in the lead up to a wedding is fucking unbelievable.

[Tony Moanero]

Does the chippy do gravy?

[Trumo]

Obvious photoshop is obvious.

[Champ]

I'm from quite near there & went to the market at Gretna once about 20 years ago.

 

Fuck all else to do there other than get married really, you can get the best ice cream in the World at Pelosi's in Langholm which is about 20 miles up the road, there's a good chippy in Longtown, also nearby & the scenery near Moffat is beautiful, not a million miles away either.

 

Good decision btw, I would advise anyone getting married to fuck off & do it on the fly, the amount of hassle people cause in the lead up to a wedding is fucking unbelievable.

When someone's recommending the highlights of an area as being an ice cream parlour 20 miles away and a chippy you know you're onto a winner.

 

Fuck off and do it on the fly every time

[Captain Turdseye]

Just to clarify, you're advising against Gretna, Cath?

[KMD7]

Best of luck mate.

[Champ]

Just to clarify, you're advising against Gretna, Cath?

It's no country idyll with a thatched blacksmith's cottage on the village green is all I'm saying.

 

To be fair, I cycled through it last year and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting

[Mook]

Does the chippy do gravy?

 

Never heard of the cunt?

 

[Champ]

It's no country idyll with a thatched blacksmith's cottage on the village green is all I'm saying.

 

To be fair, I cycled through it last year and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting

On the plus side, it makes for a lower Tory scum count I suppose

[Rico1304]

On the plus side, it makes for a lower Tory scum count I suppose

Boo hiss!

 

I'm glad other people have said its a bit grim. I stopped there on the way to Edinburgh a few years ago. It's an industrial estate with a few pubs hosting rough weddings.

 

IMO if you want low key just go to your local registery office.

[Lee909]

If your going abroad with the kids get married there

[Captain Turdseye]

Boo hiss!

 

I'm glad other people have said its a bit grim. I stopped there on the way to Edinburgh a few years ago. It's an industrial estate with a few pubs hosting rough weddings.

 

IMO if you want low key just go to your local registery office.

The nearest registry office (Bury St Edmunds) is really nice but then we've got the hassle of inviting everyone which is the main reason we want to do it somewhere else.

[redinblack62]

We got married by legging off and doing it but we went to Vegas and got married by Elvis.

[Champ]

The nearest registry office (Bury St Edmunds) is really nice but then we've got the hassle of inviting everyone which is the main reason we want to do it somewhere else.

Just don't tell them

[Champ]

Boo hiss!

 

I'm glad other people have said its a bit grim. I stopped there on the way to Edinburgh a few years ago. It's an industrial estate with a few pubs hosting rough weddings.

 

IMO if you want low key just go to your local registery office.

A Hades reference, rico. Keep up

[Chairman Meow]

The nearest registry office (Bury St Edmunds) is really nice but then we've got the hassle of inviting everyone which is the main reason we want to do it somewhere else.

 

Do it there and don't invite anyone?

 

Problem solved. 

[Tony Moanero]

Never heard of the cunt?

 

Mook, you're lucky that Usher has ballsed up the rep/neg facility. You deserve to be negged into the middle of next week for recommending a chippy that doesn't do gravy. Shame on you.

[Mook]

Mook, you're lucky that Usher has ballsed up the rep/neg facility. You deserve to be negged into the middle of next week for recommending a chippy that doesn't do gravy. Shame on you.

 

I meant have you never heard of the chippy.

 

I have no idea whether they do or don't do gravy because I would never put it on my chippy.

 

You fucking pervert.

[moof]

I meant have you never heard of the chippy.

 

I have no idea whether they do or don't do gravy because I would never put it on my chippy.

 

You fucking pervert.

Hmm... I'm not sure tony is the deviant in this particular argument.