FH and I are keeping close to what we would want in our wedding. We have our family, it will be in our hometown, catholic ceremony, and reception on the water. It's going to be the closest we would want, however, not completely. Our families will be footing the bill, so there will be few people we won't know well attending. We love our families (we're big family people) but we treasure and respect our relationship. Part of me appreciates low key things where it's just my FH and I. We went to a weekend marriage retreat (as prep for the Catholic church) and it was so nice. It brought everything to focus again and the marriage is really just about two people. Weddings are families who want to make it about themselves but use you as their scapegoat.
Our wedding is in September. We want time afterwards to just rest and relax with family still in town. We plan to go on our honeymoon in spring of the next year or maybe even on the 1st anniversary. (I don't think FH would want that bc he wants to have kids ASAP but we'll see. My body-my rules, right?) Italy is our place and I was thinking of doing a ceremony with just the two of us. We can go to a chapel and then have pasta by the water. That would just make us so happy. And it's nice bc we didn't have to "put on a show", per se. Would this be appropriate to do? Has anyone eloped to Italy? Any advice?
