People who had relatively simple, do-it-yourself weddings and receptions seem to enjoy them more.
The last Big To Do wedding I attended was a contrast to this. The bride was so nervous and worked up over all the little details, I thought she was going to be sick.
When we got married, we almost eloped, but decided together that we wanted a church wedding so that our mothers could attend. I'm glad we did now.
However, we both agreed that we didn't want all the hoopla of a large wedding. Our chapel wedding was very short. We only spoke one word during the ceremony... "yes." We had told the preacher we wanted to speak as little as humanly possible... he said he could condense that down to "do you take..." but we had to verbally answer in at least one word. LOL
We were so blessed with friends who pitched in on planning and carrying out the reception. And, as I said before... people still talk about what a great time they had.
When's the last time someone went to a high-dollar catered sit-down reception kind of wedding and thought to themselves afterwards, "Wow, I had a GREAT time at that wedding!"
For me, it's generally, "Well, that's over. Let's order a pizza."
Weddings should be...
“You want her?”
“Yes”
“You got her, now let’s go eat.”
Our friends all took tons of photographs, and then got together and put them in a book for us.
We treasure that book in a way that I don't think we would staged professional wedding photos.