One of my best friends got engaged around 2 years ago and has spoke of wanting elope to vegas ever since. This hasn’t happened due to covid, life, money etc. But if anyone asks she says she’s trying to plan it, just trying to save up. She’s really excited and spends a lot of time looking into it and it’s well known amongst everyone that it’s what she wants to do.
DP and I are probably going to get engaged this year and we both want to do it too. We haven’t told anyone because we just want to go over, do it, then announce once home. I’m worried if we do it before her she will be hurt and angry and think we got in there and “copied” her wedding before she got the chance. She can be difficult sometimes too.
Even certain details she mentions is things I want to do too, eg get married by Elvis, go to In N Out after the ceremony and gets pics holding burgers.
I feel that going to Vegas is such a cliche and hardly a unique choice, also the details are also quite generic vegas wedding stuff so she has no right to complain. However, from her side I think her and others would just see me as a copycat and wedding stealer 🤣
Would you sod it and do it if you were me, or perhaps think of something else?
I could tell her and only her before, but again I just wanted to go and do it with minimal fuss and what if she takes it bad/ makes things worse as I’d be rubbing it in?