Ceremony planning is gettin gout of hands. MOTB is dictating what she wants and seriously cries if FI and I express differing opinions from hers. FI and I want a simple, SMALL, ceremony but our families desire something else. If we eloped, we would get tax benefits and insurance and cell phone benefits. Is it poor etiquette to elope and then have a public ceremony/reception later to please our families?
As the bride, I really have no desire whatsoever for a big traditional wedding. I go back and forth. Mother thinks we should have wedding photos and showers to "get stuff" but to me that's not what it is about. It's about two people celebrating their love and starting their lives together.
What should we do?