My fiance's family is massive and trying to cut down the guest list to fit in our budget will likely cause a massive problem with his family. My fiance thinks we should get elope and get married without telling anyone. If we do this then we can get married at least a year earlier and won't feel under pressure to have some sort of huge do that we don't want. I don't really want to do that. We've sort of met in the middle with the suggestion that do register office then a meal and we only invite parents, siblings and my remaining grandparent. We would have a party after we came back from our honeymoon. Since parties are cheaper than wedding receptions, we would save a lot of cash doing it this way.
On one hand getting married earlier and not spending tonnes of cash on a reception would be nice but I also don't want to start my marriage by upsetting my future inlaws.
Anyone else done this? Did it cause massive arguments? Did you regret it afterwards?
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thecapitalsunited · 02/04/2014 15:11
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