Where is Gretna green and is it a good place to get married?
It is in Scotland (90 miles from Glasgow airport). Yes you can get married there if your family opposes the wedding and you plan to elope! Traditionally, in Scotland, a man & woman over the age of sixteen could be married by declaring themselves husband & wife in front of witnesses. In England, such marriages were prohibited by Act of Parliament in 1745 with the result that eloping couples fled to Scotland for their marriages. Gretna Green was the first changing post across the Scottish Border for the stagecoaches on the main London to Edinburgh route & so began its long association with the romance of the runaways.
