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Special Offer 1 - £395
Hire of The Mill Forge for your wedding and two nights in our luxurious bridal suite with bridal treats
Special Offer 2 - £245
Two nights in our luxurious bridal suite witth bridal treats
Special Offer 3 - £150
Hire of The Mill Forge for your Gretna Green wedding
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Gretna Green Wedding History
Gretna Wedding History
1) Any marriages performed in a church would have to be recorded in the Parish Records which in turn would have to be signed by both Bride and Groom.
2) Weddings which were carried out in places or at times which were deemed illegal in the 1604 canons were not legal ceremonies.
3) All weddings should be performed in a church and would be recognised legally while "verbal spousals" which were non-church ceremonies would not be deemed legal.
4) Bride and Groom must both be 21 or over to marry without their parents or guardians consent.
This law was introduced to prevent the thousands of marriages which were taking place illegally around the country, causing an outcry as these ceremonies were never properly recorded and led to many disputes where landowner's daughters had married against their fathers wishes. To be married in this way all the Bride and Groom had to do was appear before a parson and two witnesses and declare their wish to be married. Irregular marriages were most commonplace around Fleet prison in London where there were over 50 marriage houses.
These laws were enforced by secular courts and any clergymen breaking these laws faced 14 years of transportation. However these laws only applied to England and as Scottish law has always been different to English and still allowed you to be married at 16, the result of this was that couples, where either Bride or Groom or both were under the age of 21 they would run away to Scotland to be married. With Gretna Green being the most southerly part of the Scotland and England border it is where many of these runaways arrived.
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