Should We Elope?

DebauchedSage

EDIT: When my fiance saw that I posted this, we sat down and discussed the entire situation and decided just to tell our families--tomorrow--that we are getting married, and that we are going to elope because of my fiance's family's situation. My only remaining question is about the possibility of registering, and I've posted that in the section on registries.

Thank you, everyone, for your responses!

aMrsin09

Elope away!  Yes, both families will be hurt, but I promise, you are not the first people to elope.  Your families will forgive you (bring it up at every Thanksgiving from here on out, but will forgive)

However, instead of having a First year vow renewal, I would go with just having a blow out first anniversary party.  No  recreating the wedding bit.

FWIW< my sis did the same thing.  If BOTH families couldn't attend, none could attend.  It was a definitive line and it worked.

kathrynhabibti

OP, it would have been nice if you'd not edited away your original text. Someone else in the same situation might have found it useful. At the very least you could have done an ETA.