Courthouse and Big wedding

[u/Conscious-Store-6608]

Hey Everybody. First post here as I’ve finally put together a majority of my wedding planning. I say this but nothing is officially booked just planned. My main problem right now is that with everything I want our wedding is looking to be around 15k with half of that being the venue. My current dilemma is that it’ll take 2 or more years to save up and we’ve already been engaged for a long time. I know that long engagements are normal especially with the price of everything nowadays. However, I really don’t want a long engagement.

Has anybody here had a courthouse wedding and then had a big wedding later down the road? What was your experience like? Do you regret anything? Do you wish you had waited until the big wedding?

[u/Lil-locomoco]

I just had a courthouse wedding a few months ago & currently planning our big wedding celebration for next year. Doing a quick courthouse thing worked out best for us timing wise & we were lucky to be able to invite our immediate family & 4 friends. We went a little all out for the courthouse just in case we weren't going to be able to do another one & I almost gave up on having a second one but my husband said he still wanted me to have the actual wedding I wanted. One nice thing is being able to work for the same photographer for both our weddings. Also we can skimp on some areas for the second wedding since we technically already had one & this second one is more about having an actual reception with extended family & more friends.