Is this a daft idea? We are planning on getting married at some point this summer, but considering just nipping down the register office asap in jeans and t shirts and getting passers by to be witnesses, just to get the legal bit out of the way. Then at our actual wedding we can do what we like (thinking of getting a humanist celebrant if we can afford it, if not we can read stuff ourselves and then just have a bit of a party with our friends and family)
My mum is going a bit mother-of-the-bridezilla about the whole thing though, is she likely to be bothered about coming to the signing of forms bit?