# Screw weddings, everyone elope! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-weddings-everyone-elope/191952 "2003-07-30T18:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-weddings-everyone-elope/191952/21 "2003-08-01T02:34:35Z")
A friend of mine rented a beautiful wedding dress for $25. I sure wish there were places like that around here, when my time comes. I guess I’m cheap, but I can’t stomach paying hundreds of dollars for a dress that will just be boxed up in the attic for the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-weddings-everyone-elope/191952/22 "2003-08-01T02:58:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SweetLucy \* > \*\*A friend of mine rented a beautiful wedding dress for $25. I sure wish there were places like that around here, when my time comes. I guess I’m cheap, but I can’t stomach paying hundreds of dollars for a dress that will just be boxed up in the attic for the rest of my life. \*\* Hehehe, that sounds exactly like me, though my girlfriend would insist on going through the whole deal (not that we’re anywhere close to marriage). Although I do think tuxes can be reused, so it wouldn’t be a total loss on my part… About wedding dresses, do any couples wear them for anniversaries? That would be a way to get quite a few uses out of them, provided the marriage doesn’t crash and burn… ---
**Author:** ![Toaster52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Toaster52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toaster52)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-weddings-everyone-elope/191952/23 "2003-08-01T18:02:30Z")
**stephenpe** , you got married two HOURS ago?! And you’re online NOW??!! :eek: :eek: My wedding is on Aug 17th. We have a final guest list of 83 people; here in New Jersey, that translates to about $15,000, which we are paying for direct; nothing on a card, etc. It’s been a bit of a struggle, but we can walk down the aisle and not have to worry about paying for this for years and years and years… It’s a Victorian style wedding and it’s going to be great. For favors, we made up “First Aid Kits for Life”…little glass jars filled with items needed…like a band-aid “for Life’s little mishaps”, etc. The jars are covered with swatches of left-over material from our Victorian curtains. We did them all in a night with lots of laughter and wine. Our Rehearsal Dinner will be a barbeque/swim party at our house. We drew up, designed and printed our own invitations and thank-you cards. Lots of little things such as that and we estimate we saved about $10,000. Enough for a great honeymoon. The only problem we had was her sister wanting to go to 400 dress shops to look at dresses, when my Beloved picked out a perfect dress at the first shop and didn’t want to look anymore. She got it for about $400 and says she can alter it a little to make it a great dinner dress. I can’t wait to see it. My surprise splurge will be a Barbershop Quartet to come into the reception and sing to her, with me as a fifth on the last song. I can’t WAIT to see the look on her face!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-weddings-everyone-elope/191952.md?page=1)