Hi All,
Im back , arrived home midnight last night.
im only writing this not to gloat or have any congratulation messages but to tell you what an absolute comedy my marraige was ,if i had not had been there i would never have had believed it!
first of all the medical i had to take or not.
all i had to do was take a blood test no medical
In the UK is it fair to say a blood test result can take 2-3 weeks?
well we went to the local doctors surgery and we sat in the waiting room for about 5 minutes then we were taken to a tiny little room out the back.
The doctor wasnt there so a man who i thought was the receptionist put on his rubber gloves and Ahmet was first,an old piece of rubber tubing was used as a tornaquet and Ahmets blood was taken first then mine.
Ahmets brother came with us and we are both smokers and he asked the man if we could smoke !!! IN THE DCOTORS SURGERY!!
sure says the man, "come into the kitchen"
we sat down at the kitchen table and started to smoke. the guy came in behind us with the blood samples and he unplugged his hot water urn and plugged in his centrefuge (sp)
and right in front of us in the KITCHEN he was doing the blood tests whilst we were puffing away next to him!!!
after he finished the blood he tested went down the sink NOOOOOOOO you cant do that, then his surgical gloves he was using went into the waste paper bin in the waiting room.
All in all for both of us from entering the surgery and leaving took no more than 20 mins for 2 blood tests! Still now i dont know who this guy actually was,he could have been another patient for all i knew lol
we then had to go to another office in town to collect the offical blood result paperwork then off to the council office where the marraige was to take place.
we went into a waiting room where there was a guy sitting behind a desk puffing away, we had tea with him whilst he checked the paperwork over and stamped some documents and away we we went . All done we gat married tomorrow at 11am.
I got up at 7am I WAS GETTING MARRIED WOOOOOO WEEEEEEE
At 0930 i was still getting ready no problem i had another hr and half when Ahmet said "please can you hurry up we need to leave in half an hr "
"sheeeeesh leave me alone we dont have to be there for another hr and half"
un beknown to me the the guy who was marrying us was free and said he wants to marry us at 1015 not at 1100hrs so half ready i had to pull on my clothes and dash out the house. His family were already leaving getting into taxi's they had ordered and i went to one of them when Ahmet stopped me and said "you are coming with me" and with this i was bundled into the family flatbed!!! i WAS GOING TO MY WEDDING IN A BLOODY FLAT BED TRANSIT!! his family went in cars
Arrived all dishevelled at the council office and we got to the waiting room where we were the day before and the same guy was there puffing away behind his desk and Ahmets family were there sitting and waiting and i asked which room we were going to to get married thinking it would be a lovely office but nooooooooo, this waiting room was where i was getting married.I was getting married in what looked like a bus station waiting room.
The guy put out his cigarette,put on his robe over his old jumper we had to pull 2 grubby chairs to sit on in front of him and the marriage ceremony started.
well , blink and you would have missed it!!
the ceremony was -

"Do you wish to marry Ahmet" reply yes
"Ahmet do you wish to marry Jackie" reply yes
Please put you foot on to his (means the crossing over and combining of lives)
FINISHED :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S

I whispered "what about the rings" dont we have to put them on"
Ahmet said something in Turkish
the guy said something like "oh you got rings? give them here then," he shoved one on my finger one on his"
NOW finished, all in all it took no more than 90 seconds, and thats the truth lol
im married , first time in my life, i went half prepared, dishevelled,went in a bloody transit van,married in a waiting room and the whole process took 90 seconds!
i got married on the 30th Novemeber but all the paperwork says the 29th.
When we went the day before the guy did the paperwrok,stamped it and thought we were going to get married there and then and so he stamped it all.
Believe me that is exactly how it happened, i couldnt be upset ,i just shook my head and laughed,so ladies and gents if you are planning a civil wedding in Turkey dont spend hundreds on clothes and preperation because you are in and out in seconds lol.
well thats my wedding folks lol

Kind Regards

Jackie
xx

Hilarious!!!! You are sure you are married??

ha jackie thats hilarious....im sure if you had of filmed the whole process you could have won a prize for funniest weddings on Youve been framed!!and after all those nerves

Awwwwwww I think its really sad . I would have been in tears! I wouldn't care when or where I got married and certainly wouldn't want a big expensive wedding, but would at least want my partner to be a bit more romantic on the day!!

Anyway - congratulations to you both

By the way, I was laughing at the way you told the story!! I wish you all the best and hope all goes well. You can always have a blessing sometime with all the trimmings!

congrats to you!! it sure is hilarious but its the start of a beautiful marriage, no less =D

Aww congrats to you!

Although I must say that I hope my wedding will be different. I understand that it's turkish law but I simply will not go to some doctor and make a blood test on the day which is supposed to be the most romantic in my life. Plus I'm also scared of needles.

I suppose the most important thing is that you got married but still I can't believe how insensitive the turkish system is. At least now I know that we will marry in my home country.

hi jackie and everyone else on TC --- that was really well wrıtten and had me ın fıts of laughter!
watch thıs space cos ın less than fourty eıght hours i too wıll be marrıed!!!

i dıdn.t fınd the blood test too bad -- at least ıt dıdn.t take place ın a kıtchen!!!! the x ray i dıd fınd a lıttle unusual -- the machıne had defınıtely seen better days and i dıdn.t realıse that you had to be completely naked from the waıst up and press yourself very fırmly up thıs cold panel!!!

none the less ıts all done and results were fıne -- now am just waıtıng for thursday!!! wıll let you know how ıt all goes xx Elaine x

oh elaine congratulations to you , let us know how your wedding goes !
am i glad i didnt have to do a naked medical lol no matter how old the equipment was i think it would give up if it examined me naked lol.
i wrote my wedding post as i saw it, i couldnt be upset it was so comical.

xx

Great story telling. Wow. Well, congradulations on your happy feelings and memorable day!! Have a wonderful marriage.

thank you for the wonderful replies but honestly it was written for everyone to have a laugh not for well wishes but they were much apprecaited
KIND REGARDS
Jackie
xx

Jackie I MUST remember to wear my 'tena lady pads' at all times before I read anything of yours again!!!!!

Seriously though, as you know, I really do wish you both the very best for your future together xxx

OMG! your joking? hahahahahaha! At least it is a wedding to be remembered as well as getting married to the man you love! But Oh God how hilarious!

And to know you didn't even get married (Ahmets wife I mean) is even more funny! Oh the tears down in my eyes with laughing so much!
God knows what I would be like if I was there

Did anyone have the Henna treatment?? when i got back to the house mother in law brought in to the living room a dish that looked like it had a freshly scooped up cow pat , a thick brown goo with bits of fibre in it , well i just couldnt imagine just what it was i just prayed it wasnt anything to eat !
After an hour an old lady from the village gave it a stir and slapped a couple of dollops on my hand then dished out a dollop to the other women and then i realised when i saw them rubbing it into their hands it was henna.
Luckily it has faded now but it made me jump everytime i moved my hands for the first week after i saw this mark on my hands and it kept making me jump lol.

Hi - Congratulations on your marriage, at least its something you wont forget in a hurry! Sorry but def found it amusing. I got married in May in Turkey and my experience was "normal" for English standards!! I hope u r def happy together.

Hİ JACKIE AND ALL!!!!
İ have to say that my weddıng went really well!! i thought ıt was a lıttle short and couldn.t belıeve ıt was over so quıckly! Now we have to thınk about vısas --agaın!! or ıf to stay here. it ıs dıffıcult as ı have kıds to consıder and lıfe ıs harder here but havıng saıd that ı would rather be here wıth my husband than ın England wıthout hım.Although ı get lonely here as ı haven.t got any frıends as yet!!!!
ıncidentally - ı just asked my other half about the henna as ı hadn.t heard of ıt and he tells me that the men have ıt on one fınger too!!! very ınterestıng! ı love learnıng all about the dıfferent customs here.i remember once usıng henna to colour my haır and ıt smelt horrıble -- a bıt lıke some thıng from a cows rear end!!! ı hope your hands dıdn.t smell lıke that !!!

anyway ı hope you are all well and happy and ı wısh you all a fantastıc 2007
ELAINE XX

jackie
1. congratulations on ur wedding.
2. is it how u planned ur wedding?
as far as i know when u prepare for a wedding u simply sit down and talk about of everything and make everything sure like: if plan A fails, there is plan B. otherwise u deserve what u had. from ur story it looks like u didnt talk much on ur marriage(if u talk with each other at all, many girls here marry without knowing the language). or u simply relied on ur husband, who simply behaved indifferent.
-blood test? what the heck is that for? if u r hiv positive then the gov wont let u marry?
-xray? (not in ur case) but again what for?
-dodgy ceremony, dodgy way of treating the very important event of life,
-dodgy family, who took a ride in cars and put the new couple into the van, huh, what a nice family!

and u didnt protest at all? u didnt say like "hee? whats going on? wheres the proper wedding ceremony? all in all this is the only moment i marry. ha?
where were ur family? what did they feel about this?
this is all very dodgy.

I find myself agreeing with you Femme - is this a first hehe!

I cannot begin to imagine how you would marry someone and not until afterwards try to figure out how to get visas, decide where you are going to live etc. The most extreme cases are where I see girls asking for translations for their husbands. If they can't even speak the same language how on earth an a real marriage exist