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Originally Posted by Bev Davies
The Town Hall in Venice is a whole lot prettier than any of the Registry Offices over here!
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OK, weddings are not my thing, but I stumbled across this and couldn't let it lie without a plug for the Glasgow registry office. It's located in a fantastic Victorian town house (part of "park circus" - a full 360 degree terrace in the middle of a lovely part of the city's west end). The town house is known as the
Casa d'Italia - a private club set up in the 1930's for italian ex-pat's (which also housed the Italian Consulate for a while), kitted out internally by them in grand Italian style. It was faithfully restored to its former glory in the late 80's when it was bought up & converted for use as a registry office by the council.
So, there's a tenuous italian connection here which makes it worth a post! OK, may not quite rival Venice, but not
all UK registry offices are located within the standard grim 60's council building that is the stereotype!
ps. would have attached some of my own wedding pix (as they featured the building, not just the participants) but they are pre-digital, so had to pull some random (& pretty poor) images of the net