In order to get married, what would you give up?

[MOB Karen]

Let's say you had to give up something to get married, what could you live without? :p

[Amber818]

I would give up my honeymoon if I had to in order to get married. Everything else is pretty much a necessity even though I really want and need that vacation...

[LaceyinPgh]

Sean decided that we had waited a long time to get married. We both knew we were only going to do it once. He felt that we deserved the wedding of our dreams. To do that meant not giving anything up. We took a long time to plan and really saved up the money. It required a lot of work and self restraint on my part (my shoe and purse budget got cut WAY down!) But there were no compromises, no appeasing anyone else, and no sacrificing. It cost a lot but in the end we both walked away with the wedding that we wanted and the memories to go with that. It was worth it.

[MOB Karen]

Sean decided that we had waited a long time to get married. We both knew we were only going to do it once. He felt that we deserved the wedding of our dreams. To do that meant not giving anything up. We took a long time to plan and really saved up the money. It required a lot of work and self restraint on my part (my shoe and purse budget got cut WAY down!) But there were no compromises, no appeasing anyone else, and no sacrificing. It cost a lot but in the end we both walked away with the wedding that we wanted and the memories to go with that. It was worth it.

And you've got the photos to prove it!! Your wedding was breathtaking, and it is the model that Amber & I strive for! Thanks, Lacey!!:D

[LaceyinPgh]

And you've got the photos to prove it!! Your wedding was breathtaking, and it is the model that Amber & I strive for! Thanks, Lacey!!:D
I should say thank you for the compliment as well. Amber is going to have a beautiful wedding so I wouldn't worry about it.

[AngelinLove]

I didn't give up my honeymoon, but it will be postponed!!!

[hummingbird521]

We gave up a honeymoon till october for the wedding to be when it was.

[bnd94]

We aren't having a reception anyway and it doesn't hurt my feelings at all to give that up. I never have looked forward to going to weddings esspecially the receptions, So this is really the wedding of our dreams. A few close friends spending the night on the mountain with us and that's it. :D

[cowboysbride]

We discussed our wedding plans and both of us wanted a big wedding so we made the sacrifices (we stopped showing horses for the season) in order to get it!

By the time you gas up the truck, buy the bedding for both horses, pay the entry fees, pay the stall fees and the fee for hooking up the horse trailer to water and electric and pay for food for 3 days for us and the horses and all the other expenses you can easily spend a grand for a weekend show, we usually showed at least twice a month.

For Eric to do that, he must REALLY love me! We even bypassed the World Show this year and sat in the stands and rooted for our friends!

I would have given up ANYTHING to marry this man!

[CindySue]

I agree with Ellen. I didnt need all that other mess in order to get married. I tried talking him into eloping, but he wouldnt go for it.

[SoontobeMrsClark07]

Jonathan has already gotten married and it was something that was thrown together in 10 days and in someone's house, his family didnt stay, there was no reception, his brother never showed... not what he had imagined...

When it came time to start planning, Jonathan really put a hand in it. He wanted a big wedding with a wonderful reception that had dancing, dinner, and cake. He wanted it to be a formal event and something we would both enjoy (we would enjoy anything but this is about our dreams). Our searches have been hard, but we're getting everything we want. We're waiting to get married so that we have the money for everything we want. My dad has been saving since I got engaged (7 months ago) and he's not letting anything go. We both have cars that are paid for and my e-ring was a before-thought...

So I guess I wouldnt give up anything, because it really doesnt make sense at this point. Even if you had asked me a year ago, I probably would have said the same thing. I'm not materialistic but I have people around me who wont let me have anything but the best no matter what!

[countrygirl]

The only thing I would need is Josh. Everything else is just luxury when it comes down to it.

[Kacie_bride]

I picked give up the honeymoon. It was something that we defiantely want, but hey Jamaica will always be there. I would not have put off the wedding because we couldn't have a honeymoon. I would rather give up a car, but that is not possible where we live. If there was adequate public transportation I would say give up my car. I hate it anyway.

[rainbowtreat]

We didnt have the honey moon. We had thigns that came up that took the money we had so we had to cut in other places as well. I would have married him reagardless. No matter what we had I woudl have married him ut we did it the way we wanted and it was great. We loved it all.

[LizabethDavis]

I'd give up the honeymoon and wait until we could afford it.

[WebLady]

I voted Engagement Ring, but we wouldn't have had rings anyway ;)

For dh the honeymoon was the most important thing to him, so we spent more on that than anything else.

We had talked about getting married for a while and kept putting if off "until we had more money" well I got tired of waiting and kept pushing. So we ended up having a small ceremony in our home with just our parents. Then we went on the honeymoon. We had planned two receptions, one for the family and one more laid back one for us and our friends. Well the family guest list got our of hand so we didn't have the family one. We just had the party for our friends. No one seemed to mind since we didn't have a 'real' wedding anyway ;)

[katieandalex]

I could live without a honeymoon...we almost didn't go on a honeymoon but my sister insisted that we go! LOL! We were just going to wait for our 1 year anniversary to go....but now we are just going someplace in the states.

[mariaandmanish]

I could live without the over 150 guests(!) and the reception. I would have really liked a smaller wedding, but with my FH's culture, everyone you've every met, and some you've never met, get invited to the wedding. My FMIL had a list a page long of invitees! So, having a small wedding was out. If I could though, we 'd just have the lunch we have planned and no reception.

[KristyGirl]

The honeymoon. I could do without it (and we did) and just take a big trip later on (which we also did lol!).

[WhiskeyGirl]

I've been thinking of this question for a few days. I can't really pick one of those. I would give up anything I had to to get married. I would run away if I had to! ;) Fortunately we didn't give anything up and we had a wonderful ceremony, reception and honeymoon! ;)

[nikkiana]

I could actually probably live without all of that stuff. All of it's nice, but none of it is necessary.

[EarlyBird]

Well. i guess i could give up the honeymoon but i dont think fh would go for it!!!
personally i think the one thing i wouldnt give up is the engagement ring- no matter how big or small, to me, i always look at it, even when we are fighting and smile at the fact that i will be his bride sooner or later, through all this s**T