Vegas or NY or destination wedding?

Please please please help me...this is supposed to be the happiest time in my life and I am freaking out!





I dont know where to get married and I have to decide, like NOW.





option 1- the queens botanical garden, its ok but there arent very many flowers, i like the fact that the wedding garden is private, but the main garden has about 20 other brides and no bride wants that, i want it to be my shining day.





Option 2- go to vegas, get one of the hotel packages, or go to a chapel, stay there a couple of days and leave from honeymoon there (we are probably going to hawaii)





Option 3- just fly to hawaii and get married and honeymoon there. this is hard because i know nothing about hawaii





Option 4- I am open





*the big problem is that we both are not religious, both dont have large families, both dont want to spend more than a couple thousand max, if in NY the wedding party would be under 20 people. so even on a rare occasion i have fond something cheap, they have a min. of 100 people.





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Vegas or NY or destination wedding?
Just go straight to Hawaii - if you are going anyway - there are wedding pros there. You can have a lovely beach wedding for a few hundred dollars. Pick a hotel that does weddings - it's easy %26amp; use the FREE wedding coordinator that comes with the place.
Reply:Check out Grand Wailea Resort in Maui, Hawaii. My cousin got married there in the little church on the grounds. You can get married on the beach if you want or in the gazebo. Just talk to their wedding planners.





My cousin got married there and the pictures were absolutely stunning.





http://www.grandwailea.com/weddings/
Reply:Go straight to Hawaii,


It's like a tropical paradise,


Vegas is great for gambling and that's about it, its dirty, and there's hooker's everywhere, everything smells like smoke, NYC is loud and always in a hurry,and extremely expensive.


Hawaii is calm and peaceful, a sunset marriage on the beach would be a moment you'll never forget.
Reply:Vegas! I just got married there! It was great!
Reply:ON THE CONTRARY!


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Reply:Without a doubt the cheapest and most wonderful,beautiful and romantic way to get married is to take a cruise to the Caribbean and get married on the beach in the Caribbean. You can find great and inexpensive deals and the experience of the ship,etc is unbelievable. We did it last November and words cannot express the fun and beauty. For two tickets it was $1200 for 7 days. That included the room, unbelievable food, entertainment,etc. You will feel like a king and queen. The beauty of the Caribbean is beyond words. We went on Princess cruises,Eastern Caribbean. Good luck and best wishes...
Reply:I vote for Vegas too. Not only is it cool because of all the different theme weddings you can have but you can do destination weddings there as well (helicopter rides, Valley of Fire, Grand Canyon, etc). Also, if friends and family can't afford to go, most wedding chapels and hotels in Vegas have webcams of your ceremony.
Reply:I recommend option 3 - just fly to Hawaii and get married on the beach at sunset. First, you can spend your money on a really nice summer dress that you will wear again - not just a stupid wedding gown that goes under the bed for all eternity. Next, not that many people will be able to go, so only your closest friends and family will be there for you to entertain. The hotels provide all the planning -- and all you have to do is show up and have fun. Casual. Easy. Romantic and memorable.


You may wish to have a reception or party when you get home, but you don't have to.


Stay away from Vegas -- it's crowded, commercial, and expensive. Makes you feel like you've just had a roll in the mud, not a romantic getaway.
Reply:No Destination wedding please if you want your immediate family there to share in the happy day. My friend's sister got married in Jamaica last year and it about caused 2 divorces. Her sister and husband couldn't afford to go and her brother and his wife couldn't either. Both siblings insisted on going and they are still paying for the trip. All of themn were so stressed at what the trip was costing them that they didn't even have a good time. If you want to go somewhere exotic and get married, go. Then have a nice reception for friends and family when you get back home.
Reply:i say vegas baby. get it over with. thats what im about ready to do before i pull out my hair. wedding planning is stressful. if you can bypass all that and just do it, then i say go get it over with. im starting to see weddings are not about the couple, they are about you trying to impress everyone else. i have been back and forth with trying to impress everyone else but the next day when its over and they all go back to their lives and you start yours. sorry, just a little stressed right now. but yeah vegas. have fun!
Reply:I would go straight to Hawaii. Vegas for me will never be a good place to be married. its called sin city for a reason and i don't want be married there. Unless its a rich old man i am going to take money form once he dies. NYC not a good idea b/c there aren't many romantic places here. I live in NY and have seen the city inside out. I haven't came across one place that would do this moment justice. I have not checked out the wedding garden at the queens botanical garden but i have seen the garden and naaaaaahhhh.. not there. Brooklyn botanical however has a very nice wedding garden but once you get out of the garden i hate the surroundings.. it will kill the romantic mood. so i think you should get married at a local chapel where you live and go to Hawaii immediately. like once you get out the chapel next stop should be the airport. Because all guests may not want to go to Hawaii.
Reply:So many options. It can be totally confusing. Personally I think a destination wedding can be very romantic, but also gives you so many options again. Hawaii is not the only exotic option available to you. If you want to give a destination wedding a try then look at these sites for more information:


http://www.weddings-abroad-guide.com


http://www.beachwedding-guide.com


Relax and listen to your heart. You will find all the answers once you can be calm and hear what you truly want.


Good luck!
Reply:I am not a planner, and stress out easily when arranging things for company, so we opted to marry in Vegas, so I say Vegas Baby!





We married this past May at Little Chapel of the Flowers, and the 14 people in attendance said it was a beautiful wedding, and one of the funnest locations to marry-everyone had entertainment!
Reply:Go to Vegas. You can get married there fast and easily. There is no waiting period, no blood test. Marriage bureau is open 24 hours 7 days a week to get your marriage license. You have to have a marriage license in order to get married. After you get your marriage license, you can choose any wedding chapel on the strip. Some of them as outrageous as a drive thru wedding, elvis wedding, country western wedding! All of these wedding themes are legit. Each wedding chapel has their own wedding package, call around and see the rates. Everything is set up and you can choose any themed wedding you like. I have heard of many vegas weddings, don't have any religious ceremonies, unless you are asking for a priest or minister. Or you can do it the easy way and have a civil ceremony at the county clerk's office for about $50+ dollars (for frugal people only). The civil ceremony is right across the street from the marriage bureau. Civil ceremony isn't religious.


Don't have a destination wedding because many people you are close to might not afford to fly to where you are having it, Don't fly to hawaii for a wedding because you don't know what you're doing, just have your honeymoon there.
Reply:NY is not very intimate... Vegas is ok if you go to a nice hotel (Venetian has some good packages), if you just want the two of you go to Hawaii and have your honeymoon (thats what I would do)
Reply:I live in vegas and they do have great wedding packages however I would pick hawaii....wedding by the beach is priceless.....if you know nothing about hawaii...then maybe you can go there for a pre wedding vacation with your man and check out the scene.
Reply:You can have a small wedding in Central Park. With a inexpensive permit, you are allowed to have a wedding with 20 people. You should be able to rent out a special part of the park without 100 other brides. After words, you can rent out a small party room in a resutrant. If it's in your cost, rent a party bus... which will be large enough for your whole family! It can be less on the pricey side but include time with both your family.

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