My boyfriend and I have been dating for 7 years (since freshman year of college). We have been waiting to get settled in our careers to get married so that we will be financially able to pay for our own wedding. I suspect that the question will be popped soon and I am ready to be officially his wife, so the sooner the better! The problem is that I know that it will take us at least a year to plan and finance a wedding that we want (which will be a budget wedding, nothing over the top, but close family alone gets us to approx. 125 guests). Would it be ok to have a preacher marry us in his office this year and have the actual ceremony sometime next year? We do not plan to register for gifts until the actual ceremony and will not have a celebration until then.