We're paying for our own wedding. He's Military so we have to get married soon, before he goes into officer training in the next yr or 2. We were going to do a small 15 person wedding @ Shades of Green this yr. Thats when the madness began. Most of our families are in N.C. & mine in P.R., we have some in N.Y./N.J. So then we changed it to N.C. but my family had a fit. Then we thought P.R. but then his family had a fit. Now we have no clue what we're doing. I got my very expensive couture dress on SALE ($500 total I GOT LUCKY!) My friend that is a baker @ Disney is making my cake & we have 3 friends that are photographers offering to do our pics pro bono. We don't have much $. My uncles are offering to help but I keep getting told that its not right to have anyone pay for themselves. I need to decide on a venue so I know EXACTLY how much to save but just have X amount of $'s on the side for a wedding. Can anyone help please? I've been getting really snappy @ the poor Fiance & asking him to just ELOPE!