If you got married abroad...

[LatteLover12]

Did everyone you wanted to attend go?

How did you do invites?

How did you make sure you weren't a sweaty mess in your dress? 😂

Looking to have a small wedding (probably 12 of us or less including the kids) in 2022 and going somewhere beautiful and sunny seems perfect.

I'd prefer to avoid the florists/caterers/random aunties and the faff. I'm not going to expect anyone to say yes and I'm not going to be upset if people say they can't go. I've been married before so I won't have anyone weeping that they won't see me wed if that makes sense?

Any ideas/thoughts/pitfalls I haven't considered would be much appreciated!

Currently 25 weeks pregnant so not in any hurry!

No guests, just the two of us. Was planned - not spur of the moment (and not Las V either) Both been married previously. Party back in the UK after honeymoon.

Just the 2 of us, planned and booked in advance. We went to Vegas to the little chapel of the flowers.

We both have messed up small families and don't like the limelight, so a wedding with no guests was perfect for us.

We had 15 but that was all immediate family. We sent a generic this is were we are getting married, this is the date thing on fb. This was for two reasons one I knew not everyone would come and 2 didn't want to waste invites on people that I knew wouldn't come. I then sent a "proper invite" to the people that I knew would come. With my dress I had a full on wedding dress. I got married on the beach in the Dominican Republic. It was hot but we just got on with it lol. The breeze definitely helped!

Thank you! These all sound like what I'm after. Can't be doing with a big country house affair over here. Going abroad could mean there's just us and the kids or us and DPs parents which would be fine.

I'm considering going for a fortnight and asking DPs parents to fly home with our kids so we get a honeymoon too.

Just the two of us, in Central Park in NYC. We paid an ‘elopement agency’ (naff, I know!) to sort the permits, photographer and officiant. We nipped to city hall the day before to get our marriage licence, then I had a hair and make up artist come to the hotel the morning of the ceremony.

No flowers or faff - his suit was bought in the Ted Baker sale and my dress was from ASOS Bridal, bought with student discount

It was perfect!