Should we elope? Please argue for or against!
My partner and I got engaged in November last year. We have begun the process of planning a wedding but the further I get into it the more I feel super stressed about it and feel it’s just a ridiculous amount of money.
The options at this point are:
- Wedding in our home town of New Zealand. Currently the cost of this is looking to be about 60K-80K.
- Elope to Italy just the two of us and have a ceremony in a stunning villa, with lots of beautiful pictures and then inbuilt honeymoon.
A few points:
- I also have a split family and the idea of bringing them all together makes me very stressed. They have not been in the same room for years. Feel sorry for my stepfather as I will ask my father to walk me down the aisle.
- Stress with eloping is will I feel like I have missed out on something? We are very social people and I think we do like the idea of celebrating with our closest friends and family.
All in all, I love my fiancé so much and more than anything I want to be married to him.
Please help me!