What about a "private Wedding"

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Ok so another option we are now looking into.
What do you think about this idea.

We are thinking of getting married with just our Immediate family there... As in my brothers and sisters his brothers and sister and our children.

Just because its cheap and to kind of formalise things and then saving for one year and having a "proper wedding" then.

We dont want to sacrifice things for our big day, So what do people think about this idea.? We want to have a gorgeous day with no sacrifices..

[shed]

It will only be nice if that's what you want.

My wedding is very small, only us and our witnesses, plus one hanger on :rolleyes: who has been designated to take photos.

I can't wait, its what I want. I don't want the big thing.

I am going for my first fitting tomorrow, for my dwess.

I wouldn't say its the cheap option either. You still get ripped off when you say "wedding".

[MoOaNdLiTtLePoPpEt]

i agree, do what you want and what will make you happy.

if me and dp were to get married in the next 2 years i would just like, myself, dp and Ds....any family that can be there on the given date, great :-), it would just be a nice, simple beach ceremony, i would have a photographer to get piccies etc...and that's it....

maybe when we can afford a shang dazle then maybe we would re new our vowels and have something a bit bigger.

marriage isn't about the wedding and the cost and how bug, marriage is about the rest of your life...!!!

[kas3]

We got married in our local botanic garden. Our friends and work colleagues came along and my MIL had drinks and nibblies out for everyone. Instead of the huge reception though, we booked a room at a nice hotel and had a dinner with our family. There were twenty-five people all up, including us. The only people there who weren't family were our two witnesses and our ring bearer. Everyone fit around the one (albeit large) table. It was great.

[Kachow]

We had a " private " wedding. Only our family came. My mum and dad, his mum and dad. Our brothers sisiters and their partners, our kids, my DH aunty and uncle and one very good friend.

It was very intimate, minimal fuss. We hired a penthouse on Bribie Island that had an upstairs courtyard over looking the ocean. We got married upstairs, hired a caterer for fingerfood ( she used the kitchen in the penthouse to cook) had photos on the beach.... it worked out very cheap.

The penthouse only cost $300 for night ( compared to $3000 for a wedding reception place) and we got to use it for our wedding night.

[M O P]

that is exactly what we did-
just us, our parents and our siblings and their partners
we got married away-
the family all had a week long holiday too
we had a beautiful dinner afterwards then hit the pub for the live band

we did have a party when we got back to Adelaide for about 140 people
it was much cheaper than a traditional wedding reception and we still got to party with everyone
it was a real party with just drinks and nibbles and cost about $2-3000 and everyone had a great night

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Well we are thinking of getting married at our local gardens...

Just so we all have the same surmane and because we have wanted to marry each other for years then we wil have a "wedding fund" dedicated for use on a wedding a year later on our wedding anniversary.

I want a normal wedding but we cant afford it right now.

Things like loan applications and that kind of stuff though are getting increasingly hard with diff name. At the schools it is confusing and I and he both want to call ach other husband, wife.

So yeah I said Ill do this ceremony he wants to formalise things as long as he promises we have our one with our friends and family there next year!

Do I wear a wedding dress?? For like a registry office sort of private wedding (only not in a registry offce) Do I get to doll myself up..??

[M O P]

I wore a nice dress I bought from David Jones-
but if you want a wedding dress- get one-
it is completely up to you.

(I have a wedding pic in my Zoints profile)

[MilkOnTap]

I wish we had just had the small intimate wedding that we had originally planned.

I think small weddings are lovely!

[Rating]

Thats very nice Karen!
I am thinking maybe for that ceremony I will have a Short white dress and then I will get my special dress that I love LOVE for my actual wedding

I need to look around for a short white dress now...