Gretna Green thousands of weddings. Today there are several wedding venues in and around Gretna Green, from former churches to purpose-built chapels. The services at all the venues are always performed over an iconic blacksmith's anvil. Gretna Green endures as one of the world's most popular wedding venues, and thousands of couples from around the world come to be married 'over the anvil' in Gretna Green. In common law, a "Gretna Green marriage" came to mean, in general, a marriage transacted in a jurisdiction that was not the residence of the parties being married, to avoid restrictions or procedures imposed by the
Runaway (Sahlene song) it having secured two first place votes on the night of competition, specifically from Latvia and Sweden, while "Come Back" received only one first place vote, that being from Austria. "Runaway" was succeeded as Estonian representative at the 2003 Contest by Ruffus with "Eighties Coming Back". The composers of "Runaway" would again have a song they had written be the Estonian Eurovision entrant: the Eurovision 2006 entrant "Through My Window" which, like "Runaway", was performed by a Swedish vocalist, in this case Sandra Oxenryd. On the June 6, 2006 chart of the Top 60 singles in Sweden, "Runaway" by Sahlene