Had I suggested we use the Elan for the honeymoon I don't think she'd have turned up at the church!
The very first time we went out in the Elan after we met it broke down in the middle of Uxbridge and we spent a happy two hours directing traffic around it while waiting for the AA. Up to that point her experience of cars had been that you were forced to use unreliable old bangers out of necessity as a student but with more money came newer, more state of the art, transport. The concept of aspiring to something that would leave you stuck at the side of the road was completely alien to her.
As we got married in January and were going skiing in Austria for our honeymoon the prospect of grinding to a halt with carb icing or something was just too high. Discretion was definitely the better part of valour at that point.
Looking at UAB's picture of his new wife getting into the Elan reminded me of a wedding I was the photographer at some years ago. The groom had hired a Ferrari as a surprise to transport them both away from the reception and it all went down well until the bride tried to get into the car. Because of the volume of the wedding dress she had to "reverse" into the seat but misjudged the height. As her err... posterior went down onto the (very low) seat her legs were flipped up on the high door sills, giving us all a ... well let's just say that it fulfilled the "something blue" requirement of wedding days . To add to the poor lady's embarrassment about 20 cameras went off in a fraction of a second!
When she'd recovered we had to somehow get the rest of the meringue style dress into the car. It filled up the whole of her side of the car up to the roof lining and as far forward as the windscreen. When they drove off you couldn't see her at all, it was just a wall of material. Moral of the story - keep men away from wedding arrangements
. No wonder there's a TV series looking at the comical side of men trying to arrange the big day around at the moment.