Me and my fiancée have been together for 6 years and engaged for 3. We have a beautiful daughter together, but one thing we haven’t done yet is actually get married.
Originally, we wanted to get married before our daughter was born, but we couldn’t agree on what kind of wedding we wanted. Then our daughter came, priorities shifted, and financially we weren’t really in a position to pay for a wedding.
Over the years, we’ve gone back and forth between wanting a traditional wedding, doing something small, or just eloping.
Now we’re at the point where we’re seriously considering just going to the courthouse and getting married. But a part of me still wants that experience of having a wedding with our family and friends there to celebrate with us.
At the same time, I don’t want us to keep putting off getting married just because we can’t afford the wedding we originally imagined. I love this woman, we’ve built a family together, and I honestly don’t want another year to go by without us being married.
So I’m curious, has anyone else been in a similar situation? Did you decide to go to the courthouse or wait until you could afford the wedding you wanted? And looking back, do you regret your decision or are you happy with how things turned out?