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Eloping...
Seems really stinkin romantic. At the same time, it seems like it would kinda suck. What do you think?
A girl that I graduated with just eloped last weekend and posted the pics on FB.
Re: Eloping...
Umm for me presonally I would wnat my family and friends to be there. I don't know if I could just got off and get married without them knowing or being there.... I just grew up really close to my fmaily as did CJ and so i don't think this would be the right option for us.
I think that is a very good point! I'm pretty sure they eloped b/c he is in the military.
Can't wait to meet my baby boy!
Well that makes sense then. Maybe they'll have an actual ceremony at another time. Kinda surprised she'd post pics if that were the case though.
My DH and I eloped. Just out of college. To us, it was great and completely "us" and totally romantic. Our families however were HUGELY disappointed....so much so, that we had to have a completely ridiculously over the top ceremony and reception 9 months later. We were young and immature. We divorced.
Fast forward 13 years later and the invention of the internet. We re-connected and sparks flew. We did end up re-marrying and yes.....we eloped again. To the exact same chapel that we ran off to 13 years earlier. Only this time, we invited a few close friends and family along.
That is crazy! Your life sounds like a movie, lol.
Can't wait to meet my baby boy!
Carl and I toyed with the idea of eloping. It would have been cheaper had we gone to a tropical beach or even vegas with our few close family / friends that we really wanted there.
That said, My MIL pitched in a LOT of money to have the wedding more local. I think she wanted to show off her baby, hehe!
I still wish I would have eloped. Though, I hear it both ways. After the planning process is over, a lot of brides wish they would have eloped and then I hear that a lot of brides who elope wish they had the bigger wedding.. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side..
That's funny...because in real life I think we are pretty boring! Haha! I guess when it's all typed out it does seem like a movie. I will admit, we do have a good "back story" ...but don't most great couples?
Isn't there a nestie on the PHX board who's DH met her for a split second in an airport and hunted her down from across the country? Now she's got a "movie worthy" romantic story. I cannot for the life of me remember who it was, but I loved reading about how she met her DH.
I always thought I'd do something uber small at a JOP with maybe just parents. I was never the "dream-about-her-wedding-day" kind of girl. But when it came down to it, we decided that we wanted a bit more of our family (and close friends) there and we really wanted to rock out a good party and celebrate.
In the end, we had about 50 people outdoors in a very simple ceremony and fun reception. It was low-key but amazing, and I'm so glad we did it that way, celebrating with the people who mean the very most to us.
But I totally get people who elope, haha. I think it's intimate and romantic, so to each their own!
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Meh, I don't have an issue with eloping. I think it's a really personal situation, and I know a lot of people who have made that decision - and it was the best one for them to make.
For us, I wouldn't have. Only because we really saw the wedding as a big reunion for our families in a sense. My Dad's side of the family is in the U.K, my childhood friends/family friends are in Canada, Mum's side in Maryland, DH's family is all in Iowa...So a wedding in Phoenix was pretty much the only time we thought we could ever see everyone together. The stress of accommodating everyone was terrible and wedding planning was stressful in and of itself - but the result, seeing so many people from every walk of our lives...That was amazing, and I wouldn't have changed it for the world.
DH and I wanted to elope, but decided against. Josh's brother eloped and it absolutely killed his mom. They have been married 5 years now and we still hear about it. It really does upset me that we decided not to, because after all was done and paid for, we had no money for a honeymoon. We thought we would just have our honeymoon for our 1 yr anniversary, but now his sister is getting married 3 weeks before our 1 yr and now we cant even do that due to having to take time off work for her wedding...
This turned into a little more than necessary, but oh well....lol
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We tossed around the idea for like a minute. I always thought if I did the small wedding I would always regret not having the wedding of my dreams ( I have a family friend that was in that position, they did the large wedding to renew their vows about 10 years ago and last year she kicked him out and they just finalized their divorce, ouch!). My father gave us a generous budget and told us to do whatever we wanted (spend it all, or small affair and keep the money). We ended up having the large (about 175 people, many friends of my father or my husband's family who we don't know) and it was AWESOME, we couldn't have asked for anything more!! Sometimes I do wish we had taken the money and ran like my dad offered us but I'm glad I had the wedding I wanted
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Yep...it's Julie!!! Such a crazy story....and total destiny that they saw eachother! lol
omg what??!! where is this story?????
Haha! Julie is my IRL BFF. She doesn't come on the board anymore (as far as I know, at least). So I'll give a short run down.
Over a holiday break she was travelling with family. She wore her college soccer sweatshirt while travelling. At one of the airport baggage claim she remembered noticing a cute guy wearing an orange scarf.
Fastforward some time later....
She gets an email to her college email account from a stranger. The email was along the lines of.... I saw you at the XXX airport and just wanted to tell you that you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen (insert adorable Love Actually quote about "if you can't say something at Christmas....")
Of course, naturally she was hugely flattered by slightly creeped out on how he got her email address. I believe she responded asking about that and he said he remembered her soccer # on her sweater and checked the college website.
They emailed back and forth for awhile and then transitioned to phone calls. Eventually they met, he moved to AZ (and she moved back down to Phoenix) and they've been together ever since
Holla! This was a great re-cap!
Jaye's right, I don't come on this site anymore. Unfortunately my work installed stuff on our computers that tracks every site we go to and two girls got fired because of it. So I can't go to the Nest during the day, and honestly I don't really want to at night...I just want to stay off my comp after a day of staring at one.
How funny, I really haven't come on this site in months and today I did and saw this post!
To the OP - I wouldn't have eloped. It was too much of a big deal to my parents, H's parents, and us.