I have not loved wedding planning. I have no family at all, and weddings don't tend to make that easy!
Fiancé and I eventually found somewhere we loved. It was very us, somewhere we'd been together a few times and that had a special meaning to me too. Free on our date, we booked, all organised.
This morning they've told us that due to "unforeseen circumstances" we won't be able to be legally married there. We can marry before and have a symbolic ceremony there, but they can't do the legal part. Fiancé doesn't want to mislead people into thinking we're getting married when we've already done it. To be fair to him, a friend did that last year, it came out during the symbolic ceremony and some people were quite annoyed, so I can see where he's coming from.
He wants to go back to option #2; which I did love when we viewed it, but it's A LOT more expensive, and just not as good. It doesn't have the same meaning to either of us, and because of the location, I don't think people will stay as late into the reception. The photos won't be anywhere near as good and I feel there will be a massive gap where my family should be. We didn't really like anywhere else we viewed.
He's willing to look at other places, he's said he'd marry me anywhere... but I'm really sad. I don't want to go back to the drawing board; especially with less time now.