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Article: WE DO LOVE GRETNA GREEN; For all kinds of couples, there's only one place to get married on the most romantic day of the year.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2001
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GRETNA Green has been the epitome of romance since 1754 - an eternal expression of young love's dream and a Mecca for eloping sweethearts.
For almost 250 years they have come in their droves to be married 'over the anvil' at the town's Old Smithy. And still they come, although these days they are more likely to be middle-aged and on their second marriage than lovestruck teenagers.
New Millennium Gretna is big business - the self-styled Las Vegas of Scotland. A licence costs [pounds sterling]32, the venue [pounds sterling]75, the minister [pounds sterling]40 and the piper [pounds sterling]30.
There is a tartan shop, a cafe providing fry-ups for ...