Has anyone ever eloped and then had a big wedding?

Posting to see answers. I’m in the same boat

I don't think it will. That is what we are doing since we had to postpone our originally planned big wedding/party out to next year. We are getting married with a handful of local friends/family only this year and then doing it all again next summer with all our original guests.

I think it will but I’m a one wedding type , my opinion your already married so what’s the point I would wait and FICO us on if you wait it’s more money you can save, id take a vacation on what would be your wedding day

I don't think it will !

there are couples here who do their elopement and then big ceremony differently. for instance, some will say personal vows for just one and then do a unity ceremony for another, etc. to make it different

No it won't take away from the actual wedding. .its the same as if you got married everyone knows what's going on with CVIOD. So it will be special def

We had our regular full wedding. Then, months later, went 4,000 miles away and another 2,000.
In each of these places , family and friends came from all over their area to be at one of the two receptions, with some of my husband's family driving from Northern Italy to Copenhagen, meeting my family from Finland and Denmark . Between that reception, and one in far northern Canada, an additional 120 and 60+, all but one family invited, came to eat and dance and have a great time. For quite a while in much of Europe, everyone has a separate civil wedding in an office, to sign papers. Only once that is done do people have any civil or religious " real" wedding. For us, it was fun having the additional receptions. No one but the airlines would have benefitted from so many people flying to the US, instead of just the rwo of us, already legally married, going there. Different people there, not anticlimactic. We did not do the American vows. We did the ones familiar to the two cultures I come from, one in each place, though. And that felt good. Party, dance, it was great.