Your Wedding - grand / simple / Moderate (slightly grand yet also simple)???

My ideal wedding, speaking as a woman, is no wedding at all. I got married, plain and simple, and civil is as simple as it can get under the jurisdiction where we married. Aside from the obligatory bureaucracy, it was just between him and me, and for me that is how marriage should be, although I certainly respect the choices other people make. I think whether people are male or female, they have a better chance of lasting as part of a couple (as he and I have done for longer than most of the world's population has been alive on this earth), if both people see eye to eye on that sort of thing. If my husband had been the sort of guy who wanted a huge wedding, it would have been simple--I wouldn't have married him! That is to say, I wouldn't have married someone who thought a big wedding was important. But I am very curious to see what most of the other myLotters have to say on this subject and I hope many people of either gender comment here!

Mine will be small. Mostly my family and close friends. It will be at my dad's house outside. His house lines up with a State Forest. So it will have a wooded back drop. Also, I bought my dress on Ebay for like $30.00. I'm trying to keep it simple and cheap. We will be spending a lot of money on him moving to the USA and getting an apartment. So I want to save money wherever possible. The ceremony is mostly for my mom and dad. I'm the only daughter out of 6 kids and I don't want to deprive my dad out of walking me down the aisle. I would have probably run off to Vegas and be married by Elvis if it wasn't for that.

My first idea for my wedding is a small wedding.I would wear a long flowing red dress and my groom would wear a 19th century -style tux.Or maybe a Spring, outdoor hippy themed wedding. I would wear a baby blue flowing dress and my groom would wear a white poet's shirt and blue jeans.Groovy.

My Hubby and I got married right here in our apartment with some of my family here. We had a dinner at a local steak house with my family and some friends. It was more of a formality then anything since we'd been together for 6 years already. It was still a wonderful day and one that is still dear to my heart. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

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I am planning a wedding to be in January of 2009 and am already stressed out I would love to have a simple but elegnant wedding but cause of the size of my fiances family it has to be bigger and is stressing me out a lot. I always loved the idea of a big wedding but actually the work going into it is extreme and especially costly!

I'm already married and my wedding was moderate wherien both my friends and my family were present,and there were lots of food...But when i was just a single,i dreamt of an elegant grand wedding where famous visitors and food are flooding in my wedding!huh!as if i am a princess!lol!that was just a dream...

my wedding is a very simple one... i just have a simple wedding in the church with my close family members and church friends... and after that, we have a simple reception at the back of the church... i don't like a grand wedding... we are living under tight budget anyway... it is not the ceremony that counts... but the blessings from God, the family members and the congregation that matter the most to our marriage...

When I married my ex husband...we were married in a church. We have 3 bridesmaids and a maid of honor. When I married married my current husband. We decided to skip all the hoopla and get married by the judge in a court room. Only one of my sisters was present.

My wedding only had around 50 people at it. I would not have wanted it bigger than that. It was a good crowd and the cost was kept reasonable.

My wedding is just an ordinary one. Many other people in my country are doing the same thing as I did. We had both houses - my husband's and mine - to celebrate our wedding day. We exchanged gifts and he gave me an acceptable amount of dowry. If somebody wants to do moderate weddings, go ahead I don't mind at all. I am open minded and I would like to attend simple weddings where budget is prioritized.

I'd choose a simple wedding. WHat's important to me about a wedding is not the amount of money spent but the sacred vows that are exchanged. Besides, I'd rather spend more on the honeymoon than on the actual wedding.

I just want a very humble simple wedding. Its the blessing and the ceremony that counts and I want it to be like that. I dont want a grand one that would cost a lot, I want just a very simple but solemn ceremony. I want people those who are close to me only to be there on my wedding day. I like a garden wedding.

My husband and I are both accountants so you can imagine how tightly budgeted our wedding was. The one thing we really did spend on was the place. We were lucky that it was an up and coming covered garden. Really elegant and unique. It was less expensive than having it in a hotel. But we really scrimped on a lot of things, including my dress and the wedding coordinator (a big no-no! they were disorganized, disbanded before my wedding and the remaining coordinator left early for another project of his). In exchange, we were able to invite a lot of people (around 300) made of family and extended family and friends. For our 25th wedding, I would like a grander wedding though in terms of the dress and a better coordinator or I'll probably do it myself. But I'll make sure that if we do invite 300 people, it'll be 300 really close people.