Did anyone have a really small intimate wedding....

[allthreerolledintoone]

due to family issues i do not want the fuss of a big wedding all i really want is a nice dress maybe a nice location and photo's to show for it. As mentioned in a previous thread said and i arent talking to his parents etc so i just want something small but thats going to be rmantice and memerable i dont want to regret having the big wedding.I want to get married easter too so how can i do it cheaply.

I got married 3 years ago and we only had fifty people there. I invited them all to the wedding and of course the reception. I dont see why people have to invite work collegues (all of them) people you knew 10 years ago etc, etc. and then only be invited to the evening reception knowing that the bride and groom got married at 2pm and that the rest of the party are already drunk by the time the evening reception starts at 8pm why do that it make you feel like second best are they your friends or what????!!!!

did I make myself clear!!!

Small weddings with the closets of friends and family is the ds bs I would have eloped!! marriage is between the two of you know one else and if you want to share that with just afew people good for you!

Should have added - have been married 10 years, November just past.

This thread is very inspiring as I am very much for small and intimate whilst DP wants big and flouncy.

Perhaps a compromise. From what you've all said, you really don't have to go bananas with money and you can still have a magical day.

Good luck allthreerolledintoone.

Joint wedding with my sister. Civil ceremony at a really nice hotel, 30 poeple in total including our 3 children - we were both pg at the time too.

We had 5 at ours - my Mum, Dad, Brother, Nan (because of guilt trip from my Dad) and DH's friend. His parents were invited but chose not to come over from Spain, although did have a change of heart last minute and tried to get flights.

Dinosaur, I now feel really bad as we didn't invite DH's brothers and sisters. With hindsight that was probably why his parents said they weren't coming, but it really wasn't done out of spite or anything like that. It's just they lived miles away and we wanted it to be tiny.

Was a really lovely day then went out to a lovely restaurant in the evening.

we had very small wedding as i was 6 months pregnant and not allowed to go further than an hour away from the hospital and forbidden any stress! Long story...
we got married in the local registry office with my dad, his mum, his 2 dc, and our friends with their 3 dc. Very small very nice. We all went to the local cafe rouge afterwards and had lunch (pre-ordered) - they were really lovely. The kids ate pasta with tomato sauce and ate chocolate cake my new mil made! It was fab! then we went 55 mins away to a hotel and went straight to bed (for me to fall asleep and him to watch TV...). Truly the very best of days.
then when our beloved (but early) dd was six months old we had a huge party - in the village hall. Also good but not so fab

we had 30ish people - very close friends and family. Got married in Aus in aunt's garden ( huge property) Everyone pitched in with different things - wedding present from my mum was our choc mudcake wedding cake, aunt and uncle provided the portaloos!!, other aunty provided my bouquet - more helpful than huge things to carry back to England in our suitcases.. Had an afternoon tea and were away to our beachside resort for sunset...

Unfortunately dh's family did not make it - he told no one other than his family that we were off to Aus to get married. I told some very close friends in the UK but other than that did it on the quiet.

Dh and I wrote our own vows, had a civil ceremony.

Haven't read the thread, but we had a very small wedding - just immediate family and a handful of friends - and loved it. We held it in a place that was meaningful to us, as well as generally lovely, did our own thing and hang convention (all went for a walk in the grounds together after the ceremony, ending up, quite unplanned, in the cafe). What made our wedding particularly special, despite being a civil ceremony, was that we wrote our own vows and found some beautiful readings. Seriously, there wasn't a dry eye in the house!

At our wedding we had , me, DH, two witnesses (SIL and BIL) and the priest - and it was great and very relaxed and personal. It was on a Monday lunchtime and I actually had to wait at the church for 15mins, as DH thought it was to start at 1.15pm instead of 1pm. I wore a cream/ivory coat and skirt and DH just wore one of his nicer working suits. After the church we went to my parents house for afternoon tea and then DH and I went out walking with the dog. We got married at Easter, actually it was Holy week, so there were no flowers on the alter, but that didn't really matter. The priest took all our photos, as I couldn't be bothered with all the fuss of a bossy photographer.

The whole day was amazingly romantic and just perfect - I definately have no regrets