Thread: Weddings - Where and Why

My wedding cost a total of $500 in 1986 and we're still married. Neither of has has every regretted not having a big fancy ceremony. We were married in a picnic area in a beautiful bit of forest. Food was Togo's sandwiches. The wedding was crashed by a couple of deer. Everyone had a great time.

In my opinion, you should spend your money on the honeymoon, not the wedding. (Do you have any idea of how much fun you can have for 18 K for 2 weeks.....).

Passionate about this one. I will not have the traditional wedding. I will not put my family, nor my fiance or his family, nor myself in financial or mental strain so that I may have "my day". I will not spend my engagement stressing and mulling over insignificant details that will serve no purpose. If/when I meet the man whom I have no doubt should be my partner for life, I hope to marry someone private and meaninful. Perhaps beside a busy street market in Tuscany....where noone speaks our language but us and the officiant....where we can laugh at the irony of whats going on around us and feel giddy at the memories we have just made. Then spend the next several weeks traveling beautiful places and making wonderful memories. Or perhaps even somewhere local, but beautiful. A laid back, no stress, wedding.