Noun 1. elopement - the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)
running away - the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/elopement


Doesn't really matter if it was 2 miles or 2000. Doesn't matter if it were in a church or at somebody's house. It's the act of running away.

P.S. My parents eloped and went a total of 35 miles away on December 28, 1939.

to the Methodist Church 1 mile away from our apartment. We told no one that we were getting married except the pastor and the couple who stood up with us. (And this was the time when blood tests were required to get married.) Dana ; )

Today the term "elopement" is colloquially used for any marriage performed in haste or in private or without a public period of engagement. Some couples elope because they dislike or cannot afford an expensive wedding ceremony, or wish to avoid objections from parents

The people that read them do have lives, and they know the circumstances of how people in their own families eloped. Not many have experience with Harvard Uni faculty, so they can make up crap about that all dang day. But making hay over eloping? The mask is definitely slipping.

With church weddings typically the Best Man and Maid of Honor sign as witnesses. If not them, a relative of the bride or groom. Almost never would it be the minister's wife unless she were somehow connected in some other way to the couple which is possible but not that likely if she were the only witness. And the Breitbartanistas are idiots. People didn't always travel great distances to elope. The county seat is usually where they would go because they can get the license and get married in one fell swoop, which is kind of the idea when you elope. Some ministers would even coordinate with county clerks so that they can make a little extra cash doing weddings. Typically the wedding was done in the minister's house or parsonage, because that is where there is both a minister and witness after normal business hours, which is when most elopement weddings occur.

While most of the weddings he did where the traditional kind, there were the odd ones - had a couple call from out of state - the bride's mom had been married at our church decades before (we were not there then). They wanted to get married in that same church.

They drove over, Dad did the ceremony, I was the witness. Technically you could call it an elopement.

They really don't want her talking about the issues do they?

Don't let them do this, Elizabeth! Get right back on Scott Brown as a Wall St. gofer. Hammer that message day and night.

that Democrats are the ones not focusing on the issues.

I mean votes that are undecided. I know that dedicated Dems love her....