With a minister conducting your marriage ceremony, you have the opportunity to personalise things. Incorporating a reading, or writing your own vows is really easy, by discussing options with your minister before the ceremony.
The Anvil is the symbol of marriages in Gretna Green, but why? It has usually been assumed that Gretna’s famous “runaway marriages” began in 1754 when Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act came into force in England. Under the Act, if a parent of a minor wishing to marry (i.e., a person under the age of 21)…