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For the company, see <a href="/wiki/Elope,_Inc." title="Elope, Inc.">elope, Inc.</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg/220px-Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg/330px-Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg/440px-Elopement-A_Hasty_Descent.jpg 2x" data-file-width="557" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>A humorous, staged photograph (circa 1904) depicting an attempted elopement with <a href="/wiki/Clich%C3%A9" title="Cliché">clichéd</a> ladder to the prospective bride's upstairs bedroom. The bride has fallen down the ladder, knocking over her beau and waking her father.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Elopement</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">marriage</a> which is conducted in a sudden and secretive fashion, sometimes involving a hurried flight away from one's place of residence together with one's beloved with the intention of getting married without parental approval. An elopement is contrasted with an abduction (e.g., a <a href="/wiki/Bride_kidnapping" title="Bride kidnapping">bride kidnapping</a>), in which either the bride or groom has not consented,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or a <a href="/wiki/Shotgun_wedding" title="Shotgun wedding">shotgun wedding</a> in which the parents of one (prototypically the bride's) coerce both into marriage. </p><p>Controversially, in modern times, <i>elopement</i> is sometimes applied to any small, inexpensive wedding, even when it is performed with parental foreknowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term <i>elopement</i> is sometimes used in its original, more general sense of escape or flight, e.g. an escape from a psychiatric institution. In this context, <i><a href="/wiki/Wandering_(dementia)#Elopement" title="Wandering (dementia)">elopement</a></i> (or <i>wandering</i>) can refer to a patient with dementia leaving the psychiatric unit without authorization.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has also referred to a married person leaving their <a href="/wiki/Spouse" title="Spouse">spouse</a> in order to run away with a third party.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Today the term "elopement" is colloquially used for any marriage performed in haste, with a limited public engagement period or without a public engagement period.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some couples elope because they wish to avoid parental or religious objections. </p><p>In some modern cases, the couple collude together to elope under the guise of a <a href="/wiki/Bride_kidnapping" title="Bride kidnapping">bride kidnapping</a>, presenting their parents with a <i><a href="/wiki/Fait_accompli" class="mw-redirect" title="Fait accompli">fait accompli</a></i>. In most cases, however, the men who resort to capturing a wife are often of lower <a href="/wiki/Social_status" title="Social status">social status</a>, because of poverty, disease, poor character or criminality.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are sometimes deterred from legitimately seeking a wife because of the payment the woman's family expects, the <a href="/wiki/Bride_price" title="Bride price">bride price</a> (not to be confused with a <a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowry</a>, paid by the <i>woman's</i> family).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some areas, elopement is met with violent reactions from family members, while in other places eloping has become more accepted.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, a prerequisite of Christian marriage is the "reading of the <a href="/wiki/Banns" class="mw-redirect" title="Banns">banns</a>"—for any three Sundays in the three months prior to the intended date of the ceremony, the names of every couple intending marriage has to be read aloud by the priest(s) of their parish(es) of residence, or the posting of a 'Notice of Intent to Marry' in the registry office for <a href="/wiki/Civil_ceremony" title="Civil ceremony">civil ceremonies</a>. The intention of this is to prevent <a href="/wiki/Bigamy" title="Bigamy">bigamy</a> or other unlawful marriages by giving fair warning to anybody who might have a legal right to object. In practice, however, it also gives warning to the couples' parents, who sometimes objected on purely personal grounds. To work around this, it is necessary to get a special licence from the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a>—or to flee somewhere the law did not apply. </p><p>For civil marriages notices must be posted for 28 clear days, at the appropriate register office.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Southeast_Asia">Southeast Asia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Southeast Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Philippines">Philippines</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Philippines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, elopement is called "<i>tanan</i>". <i>Tanan</i> is a long-standing practice in Filipino culture when a woman leaves her home without her parents' permission to live a life with her partner. Usually she will elope during the nighttime hours and is awaited by her lover nearby, who then takes her away to a location not of her origin. The next morning, the distraught parents are clueless to the whereabouts of their daughter. <i>Tanan</i> often occurs as a result of an impending arranged marriage or in defiance to parents' dislike of a preferred suitor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Indonesia">Indonesia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Indonesia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, an elopement is considered as "<i>kawin lari</i>", translated as "runaway marriage" ("<i>kawin</i>", means marriage, "<i>lari</i>" means running/fleeing). This happens if the groom, the bride or both fail to get parental permission for the marriage. As Indonesia is a religiously strict country, a couple cannot be married without a parent's (or next closest living relative) consent. Thus, most Indonesian couples who engage in elopement often end up marrying without acknowledgment or official record by the government. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Malaysia">Malaysia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Malaysia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Similar to Indonesia, an elopement in <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> is considered as "<i>kahwin lari</i>" or "marriage on a run". This mostly occurs when either (or both) of the couple's families does not approve the relationship or when the marriage involves a foreign man.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, elopement can happen when the court does not give permission for <a href="/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy">polygamy</a> or if the man wants to keep the new marriage secret from the first wife or even the existence of the first wife from the second. The eloping couple also may get married outside the border (e.g <a href="/wiki/Pattani_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Pattani Province">Pattani</a>) when the dowry amount is too high, causing them to be desperate to run away. Elopement outside the country is valid according to certain law, but failure to register the marriage according to Islamic family law can cause issues with inheritance, performing <a href="/wiki/Umrah" title="Umrah">umrah</a>/<a href="/wiki/Hajj" title="Hajj">hajj</a>, divorce, and the registration of the birth of a child. However, some couples marry out of the country specifically to avoid the registration requirements of their Islamic religious council, which are seen by them as overly complicated.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Asia">West Asia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: West Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrian</a> society, elopement ("<i>Jelawta</i>" or "<i>Jenawta</i>") against parental request is very disreputable, and is rarely practised.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 19th and early 20th century, Assyrians had heavily guarded their <a href="/wiki/Bride_kidnapping" title="Bride kidnapping">females from abduction</a> and also consensual elopement, when it came to their neighbours such as Kurds, Azeris and Turks, who would abduct Assyrian women and marry them, in some cases <a href="/wiki/Forced_marriage" title="Forced marriage">forcefully</a>, where they would convert them to <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Travis2017_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Travis2017-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pre-marital romance was tolerated by the <a href="/wiki/Nomadic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nomadic">Nomadic</a> and Militaristic <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish people">Kurdish</a> Bolbas tribal confederation, most notability the <a href="/wiki/Mangur_(tribe)" title="Mangur (tribe)"> Mangur</a> tribe; these relationships usually ended up in elopement if not approved for marriage by the bride's family. These love marriages were called “<i>radu khstn</i>”, meaning "chased after [a person (typically a girl after a boy)]." Typically elopement was only considered honorable if the family of the bride repeatedly rejects the possibility of marriage to her lover until the bride takes it in her own hands and marries her lover herself; otherwise, such as if the bride never mentions a request to marry her lover to her family before eloping with him or in certain families who only approve elopement of <a href="/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorced women</a> and restrict <a href="/wiki/Virginity" title="Virginity">virgin girls</a> only to <a href="/wiki/Arranged_marriages" class="mw-redirect" title="Arranged marriages">arranged marriages</a>, it is considered dishonorable. Many Bolbas women had been in at least one love marriage in their life and it is considered an honor. This caused conflict with the surrounding settled-<a href="/wiki/Feudalistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Feudalistic">feudalistic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">urbanized</a> fellow Kurdish <a href="/wiki/Mokri_tribe" title="Mokri tribe">Mokri tribe</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whom measured a woman's honor in delicacy and modesty rather than strength and stubbornness, who promoted the ban of this practice.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mangur tribe were of the last Kurdish tribes to practice this tradition, continuing the practice until the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elopement&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The relationship between <a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paris_of_Troy" class="mw-redirect" title="Paris of Troy">Paris of Troy</a> is sometimes depicted as an elopement instead of an abduction.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Patsy’s Elopement</i> (1915) was a <a href="/wiki/Silent_film" title="Silent film">silent</a> episode of an early <a href="/wiki/Serial_film" title="Serial film">serial film</a> that deals with the topic humorously created by the <a href="/wiki/Lubin_Manufacturing_Company" title="Lubin Manufacturing Company">Lubin Manufacturing Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Searches for elopement photography ideas on <a href="/wiki/Pinterest" title="Pinterest">Pinterest</a> increased by 128 percent in 2019, with other related terms like "elopements at city halls" and "elopements in forests" also seeing increases in volume.<sup id="cite_ref-Harpers_Bazaar_2019-09-27_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harpers_Bazaar_2019-09-27-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Contract_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Contract Bridge">contract bridge</a>, an elopement play is a form of <a href="/wiki/Trump_coup" title="Trump coup">trump coup</a> that enables a smaller card to score a <a href="/wiki/Trick-taking_game" title="Trick-taking game">trick</a> if it is lying over the higher card of an opponent.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the rank of the card does not matter, it is known as a "pure" elopement; 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