Well here's my situation: My fiance and
I can't really agree on a definitive guest list. He has WAY more
friends then I do and he's always been known for throwing huge
parties and everything in the past when he was single... so most of
his friends are EXPECTING something huge from him. Which kind of
makes me feel weird and I already suffer from social anxiety so the
whole thing (were not planning on getting married until late 2016)
but every time he brings up “wedding talk” I get anxiety. I don't
have many friends, seriously only 10 or 15 that I wanted to invite,
mostly family... so because of this I wanted a smaller wedding. So we
can't really agree on a number. I even brought up the idea to elope!
Which obviously didn't fly either haha. SO another idea I had that I
actually got him to seriously consider was having an “intimate
destination wedding”which would either be Hawaii or somewhere out
of the country and include just our immediate family, wedding party,
and a few friends.
I was hoping Theknot would have it's
own sub forum on destination weddings but I guess it's not that
popular so I hope this is the right place to talk about it? Anyway I
was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for locations for a
“destination wedding” other than Hawaii, OR even better, websites
or resources I can check out with like, packages and deals, that
would be great! The budget for our wedding locally was going to be
between $20-$30k so if we could come in significantly below that,
that would be great. Is that possible, or are destination weddings
just as expensive, if not more expensive than regular weddings? I
have no idea this is my first time asking about them! Any other tips
or advice you guys can give me about them would be great! Thanks! 