Our wedding came in under $10,000, that included travel to Tassie for the wedding and a small honeymoon.

Would I change it? No. It was a great day, I had a beautiful dress (that I can re-wear), our friends and family had a wonderful time. In fact it is still talked about. I know in my heart that I would have regretted not having a wedding with friends and family around. A wedding is certainly a great excuse to get people together and much more joyful than a funeral, which seems to be the only other time people with make the effort.

I know it upset me when some friends were harping on and on about elopement and how great it is. They were bluntly told that if they really hated weddings, then they were uninvited, well they changed their tune very quickly and of course attended. One went on to have her own reasonable sized wedding and the otherhas been delayed due to pregnancy.

So overall it is their choice, just so long as they not spending someone else's money that can't afford it. It would be a boring world if we all had the same type of wedding. The only weddings I don't like are the ones that don't suit the person or they don't work within their actual budget (trying to have too big a wedding on too small a budget, hard to pull off).