Eloping vs Super Small Ceremony

Even if you do elope you can still wear the dress, carry the bouquet and eat cake. But if you do decide to have a small wedding with a reception just remember your family know and love you and they know youre not a center of attention kind of girl. If you don't want a first dance, or toasts, or garter toss etc then dont do it! Make it the wedding you want.

Do whatever makes you happy. I always said I wanted to elope. I legit made my fiance agree to elope if we ever got married like a week into dating.. No joke.

Then he proposed and he was is REALLY STUCK on having a MAJOR party with friends. I told him how uncomfortable I was with it, and we discussed it and compromised with immediate family only, our child, and 2 friends each. It's around 24 people (32 invited, which included our daughter, and 3 other children from our friends). Right now we are at 20 actually attending. Part of me is still wishing it was a straight up elopement, but I am really happy I will have some people there to celebrate with (and I bought an awesome dress, and have an awesome florist, so I'm excited to show those off!!).

I think at the end of the day, you will be happy no matter what, just don't let other people tell you that you will regret something. If you want to elope, or only have 10 people, then do that. You know yourself best.

I agree with others, you can elope and have all of that. I really don't like to be the center of attention either (I tend to want to be the worker bee in the back than on the stage, if you know what I mean). We had a very small wedding. What helped me was to work on how to make the guests feel special/have a wonderful time. Once I was focused on that, all of the other stuff didn't matter. And on the day of, all I saw was my husband. In every picture I am just enamored with him. That is the way it should be! So no matter how many people you have, as long as you can focus on why you are there, that is all that matters. I hope whatever you choose turns out wonderful!