Did you ever wish you were eloping instead?

Guilty, I’m just at the beginning and wish it already I’m tired of the questions...so when are you guys going to start planning uuuuggggghhhh I still have time

Yes I wanted to elope from the start instead of planning a wedding. It was very important to my FH to have his family there so it didn't happen. I always felt the idea of eloping (without family) was very romantic. Instead we had a bigger wedding that stressed me out a lot. Our wedding day was nice and I guess worth the effort in the end.

I 100% wanted a small courthouse wedding with a very intimate dinner afterwards. My FH wanted all of his family to get together and pressure from my mom (I'm her only daughter so she was very excited to be involved) and my family expectations made us go the route of a traditional wedding. We are paying for everything ourselves and I have to admit that I think I would have regretted not having some of these moments we are planning with the bigger wedding and it will be nice to see family, but I just cant help but think about how much easier and cheaper it would have been to do a simple and intimate celebration.

We joke (but are actually serious) about eloping just about weekly. We have even go so far as telling family we would be posting the wedding indefinitely to gauge how mad people would be if we didn't have our May wedding. We have most everything already paid for, so we would lose too much money to cancel the wedding (most everything is non-refundable). We know we would be happy either way!

FH had to have the big wedding. I am still trying to talk him into eloping.

Guilty. I brought this up as an option to FH pretty regularly when wedding planning got frustrating, and once or twice we actually considered it!

Now that we decided to be true to ourselves and slash the guest list down to a size our introverted and socially anxious selves are okay with, I don't think about it nearly as often.

GUILTY!!!! I have my moments where the stress washes over me but I walk away from planning for a little while then come back to it and I'm fine.

I’m guilty of this! I’m still 15 months out to the wedding, but it can get super stressful and overwhelming. I’m just looking forward to marrying the loml!

Honestly, yes. There have been times during the wedding planning process that have made me want to say "forget it, let's just elope!" But we're 3 months away now, and I wouldn't change my decision for anything. Can't wait for our big wedding and the chance to marry my best friend in front of our loved ones.

HAHAHA. I joked about it right after we got engaged when I realized how expensive it was going to be We both still bring it up now when people keep getting added to the guest list

Honestly yeah. Weddings are too expensive. If it weren't for my parents I would be a courthouse bride for sure. I appreciate them so much for helping me have a dream wedding.

All. The. Time.

At least once a week, I tell my FH that we're just going to elope. We usually seriously consider it for a moment, and then he asks me what wedding planning issue is stressing me out and what can he do to help, and then I don't feel the need to elope any more.

For sure! I would have considered going back to Hawaii where we got engaged. More than eloping I wish we would of considered a wedding for 60 or so guests. 20 from each side of the family and 20 ofnour friends. Instead we have a black tie DC wedding for 170 or so. My bridal shower invitations just went out to 60 guests, my mom is paying so it is what it is.

I wanted to elope from the beginning.
My H was worried that I would regret not having a big wedding if we did, so he somehow convinced me to do that. We compromised and had only about 50 guests, not necessarily for monetary reasons (since we live in a very high COL area, so we spent about $25k just on them, so having a smaller list didn’t save us money lol) but just because I didn’t really see a need to throw some huge affair.
In the end I don’t regret the wedding, but I think I would have been happy eloping too

Every day. I wanted to elope at the beginning. He did not. He wanted the wedding. But who is planning it all? Not him. Ughh.

We’ve been so back and forth with the thought of eloping! We originally planned on having a normal wedding but the planning process was terrible so we thought about how wonderful it would be to go to the mountains and elope just the two of us, an officiant and a photographer! It would be absolutely perfect but our parents wouldn’t be happy. We do want our loved ones there with us, but it would be too inconvenient to have them come to the mountains with us so we got back on the wedding planning bandwagon. Now, two months later, we’re still hating the idea of a real wedding so we decided we will hold the ceremony and a small reception at a local park near our parents homes with our closest friends and family! We are super happy with the decision and we are moving our wedding to June of this year instead of March of 2019

We are 79 days away and yes I do wish we would have eloped. The closer we are getting the more negative and annoying ppl are getting...extra opinions from family members, people wanting things their way, I just want to shut the hell up to everyone...invitations go out tomorrow..but yes if we had to do this all over, eloping would have been an option

I'd have to say guilty.

After the first month or so, every single freaking day.

No because I’d be too upset if my family wasnt there