Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill

Our big news at the end of last year, having been discussed for some time, is that The Magnificent M's daughter and fiancé are going to come out to France to join us. They will spend a year here and decide if they want to take the company over or whether a year in France is more than enough. They will come out New Year 2020 and stay till Xmas 2020 unless they decide to go ahead.

Anyhoo, that is just background. Whilst he is her fiancé presently the idea is that in May 2020 they will get married. But of course, nothing can be that simple in anymore. In my day, he says sagely, you went to the local church or register office and you got married. Job done. Nowadays such simplicity is eschewed.

So, the idea is that they wanted a beach wedding. OK, there are many to choose from and having spent some time narrowing down the chance to somewhere in Europe, and pretty much therefore the Med, they have decided on a Greek Island. Huzzah.

We then have another phone call a few weeks later saying they have a problem because they have just realised the wedding certificate will be in Greek and they want it in English. No problem, we say, you can get it translated.

A few days later it's yet another call. Nope, still don't fancy having the original certificate in Greek so on to plan B. They will get married later this year in the UK as a registry office with just two passers by as witnesses. That way they will have a UK certificate.

So what is happening with the Greek wedding. That is still going ahead. M & I are the only ones who know. She has not even told her sisters. There are going to be 30 people on a beach in Greece watching a bogus wedding and nobody is going to see the real one.

Then they will be having a UK party for all those who didn't go to Greece and see the wedding that wasn't.

So, they are going to have a real wedding anniversary, a bogus anniversary. Potentially they might have to have the UK certificate translated to Greek in order to have the bogus wedding carried out, and whether they do or not they will have to have it translated into French because they will need it here and France expect all foreign documents to be translated into French for legal purposes.

I hope they never have to get divorced, it's going to be a legal nightmare!