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You can also elope in other states who do easy no witness and no applying ahead weddings. My license and ceremony cost us $50 bucks. Then go to honeymoon.

Thank you all!

He asked today if we can get married in two weeks. He's looking into buying our wedding rings. So it looks like it MAY be sooner! I'd be happy to elope and be married in two weeks. We're so happy together that it makes no difference if it's sooner than expected.

Congratulations Golden_Eve!

If I were getting married, I'd totally elope too. My family is crazy, and the thought of trying to plan a wedding would be just overwhelming to me. There's something to be said for just heading off someplace and saying your vows privately.

Congrats again, and wishing you a wonderful future with your soon-to-be hubby!

When my husband got a military assignment overseas, he asked me to marry him that evening and then we called my mom. He wanted to be married within a month so the military would have time to get me assigned to the same base he was going to. When my mom starting stressing out about how in the world was she going to plan a wedding (she lived 5 hours away) so quickly, he convinced me to elope with him within one week's time.

In the meantime, I was afraid to disappoint my mom and allowed her 2 months to plan my wedding (I know I should have planned it but my mom had a tendency to take everything over). It was a beautiful wedding but I do agree that many of the guests were older relatives and my parents friends (not complaining, my friends were there too).

I have wonderful wedding pictures (it is not important how fancy the wedding was but lovely to see how we once both looked plus nice to have pictures of friends at a time when pictures with friends not as numerous) which I cherish but wish I had taken pictures of us on the day we eloped. No one knew we eloped except the people at the military base we worked at (our elopement witnesses were two people who worked for us--it was romantic to have a secret). I found saying "I DO" scary standing there all by myself with no friends in on it. At the other wedding, everyone wondered why I wasn't nervous at all......

CONGRATULATIONS.

Suppose I gave so much information to emphasize--listen to your own heart and advocate what your values are. I had a tendency to go along with what everyone wants in order to smooth things out rather than figure out what I really wanted.

Thank you all!

You are right --- I shouldn't worry about what other people want, most especially as a 48 year-old adult! LOL. I will definitely listen to my own heart. I actually wouldn't even want to be the center of attn. and have no problem with eloping. In fact, it may even be my preference!

I really appreciate everyone's replies! Thank you so much. And thanks for the congrats!!

Update:

We cannot elope. My parents want to be involved and would be hurt if they weren't. So we're going to plan a very small family wedding with just immediate family. That's ok.. I was kind of looking forward to a romantic elopement though. SIGH. Oh well! I'd rather not hurt my parents. Definitely not.

That’s understdable. I don’t blame your parents and it’s understabe you shouldn’t upset them. I’d be quite mad if my daughter eloped and didn’t let me be part of at least intimate celebration. She teased me after my elopement how would I like if she did that. Ha

Exactly. I mean, we would have had a party afterwards for family to celebrate, but my dad specifically stated he wants to walk me down the isle and give me away. But our wedding won't be in a church. Neither one of us is religious, so we'll probably have a JP and do it outside, perhaps on the beach!!