In your fifties? A midlife wedding can be a beautiful thing – but you don’t have to invite everyone you’ve ever met, or announce it with a Red Arrows fly-past, writes three-times-hitched Flic Everett. In fact, why not make it just the two of you…
The Dungarvan Civil Registration office for births, deaths and marriages, has been temporarily closed and the Waterford City office reduced to three days a week due to ‘staffing issues’
Miranda Hart, beloved comedian and actress, has just revealed that she’s had, what she calls, a wedding. At 51, she’s found – and recently married – “her person”. There was no fuss, no crowds of well-wishers – and certainly no Hello! deal to mark the occasion. Miranda has simply joined the growing trend for the Quiet Midlife Wedding.
Its chic end is the boom in “luxury elopements” – there’s even companies who will arrange this for you at vast expense, in Zermatt or Zambesi, Big Sur or Barbados. For couples who are sick of family arguments over sugared almonds or can’t face warring parents over the prawns, it’s proving an increasingly desirable option. Why fork out the price of a house deposit so Cousin Pete can get hammered and your half-forgotten university flatmate can flirt with the married best man?
