Married this year - “wedding”/marriage celebration next year?

We haven’t pulled the trigger yet, but have been talking about a small 20-25 ppl ceremony (just family) and a reception minus the ceremony next year. I’m worried the magic will kind of be lost, but excited to wear my dress twice. I know my mom was really looking forward to throwing me a shower, so I’m sure she’ll do that next year and same with my bachelorette party. I think because of the circumstances of the changes family and friends would respect the timeline of events. I hope, at least.

We are getting Married May 30 of this year with less than 25 people in attendance. Then next year in May we are renewing our vows and doing our reception. We waited as long as we could with keeping in mind our out of town guests and finally pulled the trigger on cancelling the big event till this last weekend.

That's what we're doing. I'm talking with a small elopement service now about securing a date for us to use their space for the ceremony (6 guests, a photographer and our officiant). Then we would have a cook out in our backyard with some friends and family (max 30 people - dependent on group size restrictions by July 12th).

The only questions at this point are how many people for the cook out, and what dress I'll wear. I have a couple less formal dresses coming in Friday to try on for the wedding this year. If I like one, I'll wear that this year, and save my formal wedding dress for next year. If I don't like the alternative dresses, then I'll just go ahead and wear my wedding dress twice, and change into a more casual dress for the cook out this year.

We considered this, but decided to just do everything all at once, whenever that might be.

That’s what we are doing. We got married on our original date in April and we will have a vow renewal and reception next July.

We are eloping on our original date this week, then having our big wedding and reception in Oct. If we would of known when postponing that our date was still a go, we would of postponed until next May for a vow renewal. Oh well lol. Our crowd has had their vacation time saved for this year anyways, so it works out

We decided to still get married on our wedding date next month and will be doing our vow renewal/celebration next June, exactly a year and a day later.

We haven’t made our official decision yet but that’s probably what we are doing. As much as I would love to have everything happen on one day, it just doesn’t seem realistic or safe. We are still trying to find ways that both days can be special!

I think eloping now and celebrating later is fine! If it were me, I’d tell my parents and maybe a few months later, tell my wedding party and that be it. I like the idea of it being a secret and maybe having the officiant tell people during the wedding ceremony.