-----------------My Mom and my Fiancé parents and also the both of us have so much money locked into the wedding there is no way we could elope now. We have already been living together since October of 2015 so once the honeymoon is over nothing will change in the respect. I also have always dreamed since a little girl of having a wedding so that is important to me.
And that's what is important right now. Just remember some things might not go perfectly, so let them go and you'll do fine.
My husband and I did not elope, but didn't have a big wedding either.
We were in grad school, 8 hours away from home, with no money or time for a fancy wedding.
We arranged for the mayor of Mackinac Island (Michigan) to marry us and called home a couple weeks before that to let our families know.
We went up by ourselves, but we hired a photographer. That was our grad school version of a "destination wedding", and we were still able to offer pictures to our families.
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