civil or church wedding, which do you prefer?

i had a civil wedding but i still want to do the church wedding and my husband and i planned to have it next year.

I would definitely prefer Church Wedding. Yap, it's every woman's dream to share vows with her loved one in front of GOD.. It be a wonderful feeling giving your promises with GOD as witness. Your marriage will be more meaningful and sacred if you have the blessing of GOD..besides, nowadays, if parents aren't married in the church, you will encounter a problem once you intend to baptize your child. Your child cannot bring the family name of the father once the priest discovered that parents aren't church wed. So, for me to avoid this problem better have a church wedding.

Inmy case we opted for civil wedding too since its much more cheaper than the traditional church wedding. There was no fuss and buzz about reception and everything. All that attended were close friends and relatives and we just ate at a nearby fastfood. LOL :D But we have our church wedding two months after that. It was fast and very stressful I think on us but it went on good and well. We decided to have the church wedding early on since we believe that if we want to really save on it we have to make it quick as compared to a 1 year planning there are times that you would have second thoughts about your plans and have to revised since you have plenty of times to think about it. But with 2 months left in your planning you'll have to decide fast and it saves us money since we have to think fast and under pressure.

For me, I prefer the church wedding. It's a dream of every woman to be bestowed in front of the altar. I know that now a days, the cost of having a church wedding is very costly. From the invitations to the reception, etc. But for me there must be some ways to have a grand wedding but with lower expenditure. You must first decide how big or small your wedding will be and to realistically budget within those boundaries. And if budget is really tight I guess you can first settle for a civil wedding. Then in the future have the bigger celebration, like what you have said...