My FH and I are scratching our old wedding plans and restarting. We haven’t paid any money yet and still in the planning stages. Originally we were doing a semi- destination wedding on Mackinac Island, Michigan but I’m having second thoughts about the venue’s reception tent. Idk if I’m overreacting but I just hate the dingy tent now. I love the beautiful inn and lawn but that TENT is so ugly to me and with what the florist told me was possible, I’m just not a fan anymore. I did hours of research on how to make a plain white tent beautiful with greenery and apparently it’s not a possibility there. My FH says no one will care about the tent but I just hate it now. It’s not working with the vision I want.
Anyways, I feel like we are at a stalemate because we live in DFW area in Texas along with most of my family, and his family lives in Michigan, some in KY, some here in TX and a brother out in AZ. He either wants to do a big wedding out in Michigan or go to the courthouse here in TX but I do NOT just want to go to the courthouse. I offered up the idea to do a beautiful immediate family only ceremony here locally because that’s where our dads live (our immediate family basically only 10 people and us) and then do 2 receptions later on here in TX and one in Michigan for both sides. But he either wants to have a full wedding and invite everyone or just go to the courthouse. No in between.
Our new originally (covid postponed) wedding was Aug 2022 (OG was Nov 2020) but it’s just SO FAR AWAY. I just don’t wanna wait that long because I want our life to get started but we would need that long to save up to pay for the Mackinac Island wedding. He said we could pick a different venue in Michigan if I really don’t want that one. I’m now reconsidering spending that much on a wedding and doing it so far away from where we live but he said his family can’t afford to travel all the way down here and it’s not like my family is rich or anything so I just don’t know what to do. He FINALLY got excited for the wedding when we planned for it to be up in Michigan and seems like that’s the ONLY place he wants to have it or it’s no deal. I just feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place because I’ve always wanted a big wedding but with how much it all costs and not getting any help I’m stressing out. I just don’t even know what to do anymore.
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