Small wedding

[trevthecat]

Partner and I have been together years, mortgage, 3 kids etc but he finally proposed!! We both hate being center of attention, in the lime light so we're planning something small. Just want opinions on our idea! Guests will be parents, step parents, siblings with husband's and children and partners grandma. In all, including us and our children 25 people. So we were thinking of renting a big house, seen a fab one on Airbnb big enough for us all to stay over, either get married on site if possible or at the local registry office, back to the house, organise catering for evening meal, we will buy all drinks, own play list on, light decoration of table. How does this sound?

Sounds fantastic. Go for it.

Sounds fab, do whatever makes you happy

Sounds wonderful OP. Please do not let other people sway you into doing things any other way than how you want them, families are a bugger for ruining wedding plans.

Sounds absolutely lovely! Hope you have a very happy time.

My DSis for married here www.woodhillhall.co.uk/our-photographers-gallery/ just as you described. It was gorgeous.

Sounds wonderful. We did almost exactly the same but at our own house. It was so relaxed and enjoyable and...wonderfully cheap!

Go for it. I did something similar but used my Parents's house. My mum did the main meal and my MIL the wedding cake and puddings. It was all relaxed. Everyone enjoyed. And none of our friends were pissed off about not being invited! 😂

This sounds amazing op. Go for it!

Sounds just lovely. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Congratulations

This sounds amazing OP! If only I had read this last year so I could have stole the idea 😭

Go for it! We married in similar fashion 40+ years ago. (The house was my parents house.) A wedding doesn't need to be big and splashy. It just needs close family and best friends to celebrate your special day. Much more enjoyable.

Sounds lovely! We did something similar (posted on another thread) but had a party in our house for close family and friends after the registry office. I don’t regret it at all, we had an amazing day and wish I could do it all again!

Sounds awesome.

I had a much, much more standard wedding, though I still had to perfect this jolly sentence:

"Haha, that sounds lovely. We're not doing that though."

Breeze through it like a maniac if someone rudely blunders on about 'not a real wedding without (insert bullshit item)'.

(Ok, I also ended up lying to my MIL that I'd booked a cake maker even though I made it myself. She ended up eating her words and four slices of the cake I made!)

Oh and the other thing you'll hear a lot is 'people like to have... (insert bullshit item)'.

Never forget that they don't actually specifically only like certain things at a wedding. It's just that they expect them. We picked and chose what we wanted, and people enjoyed what was in front of them - they usully do as long as they're fed!

Sounds amazing. Enjoy.

Please do it.. .its your day xx don't look back go for it xx

Only just got round to checking back on here, thank you all so much! Yes we have already had the 'oh but what about this' or 'are you not inviting so and so?' were sold on this idea and just answering with 'maybe' or 'no'!! We've decided to do a do at our own house a week or so after for friends and family that aren't invited so they will have to make do!!