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Originally Posted by casstony
Yes, we need to do away with the wedding 'industry'. It's way too stressful and expensive and youngsters get sucked into the commercial nature of it all.
A ceremony in a nice garden/forest followed by a backyard barbeque for the reception is my preference; use the cash saved to put towards a home or holiday.
Our own wedding ceremony took place in a foggy Redwood grove.
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Sounds a bit like ours.
We were married on our property, in front of a large rock that is a memorial to my father, under leafy trees, with the other participants being the celebrant, my mother and my wife's parents (Both now deceased)
We then proceeded to have a nice lunch at a local cafe and jumped on the ferry to Tassie, texting everyone with what we had done just before we went out of mobile range after going out of Port Phillip Bay through the heads (Something that is probably a thing of the past, there may be phone coverage on the ferry now?)
The only people who knew beforehand why we were having a lunch that day were my wife and I and the celebrant, plus my mother the day before as she chipped a tooth and was threatening to go to the dentist. She worked it out when we insisted she had to be there.
We spent easily ten times as much on our honeymoon trip around Tassie than on the wedding and that was only a handful of thousands for a week or so.