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If you were to get remarried...
Where would you do it?
-traditional church with a juice and punch type wedding/elope/jp (save the cash for a down payment on a house)
-beach destination
-napa or a winery
-fun hot spot downtown (we live in Dallas)
I'm not engaged yet, but we will soon and not that it needs to be planned by the time I get engaged, but when I get free time, I like to think about these things! So, I know we are all different, but I'd love to get opinions on why you would choose what you chose! 
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Re: If you were to get remarried...
I think the napa thing sounds really cool and could be beautiful!
Personally, I'd do the beach destination wedding. Only family and really close friends as guests and let the resort plan everything so that I could just show up, get my hair done, and get married.
I loved having my big, traditional wedding, and I hopefully won't do it again (seeing as I'm still married), but I've always said that if I DID do it again, I would want it to be as stress-free and require as little planning on my part as possible. Planning it was kind of stressful - especially the guest list.
I would say really shop around, because major money can be spent or saved for a wedding. Our major costs were food and photographer.
Small wedding in Vegas with super-close friends and family. That's what we did the first time, and it was perfect. I'd totally do it again.
If not Vegas, then definitely a DW in some other exciting destination. Somewhere people can relax and party.
We've got a pretty good budget b/c my to be MIL told me last night she wants to help out with as much possible so we could get the wedding of our dreams. BUTTTTT....most of our friends are older/married with kids (we are in our early 30's) and we obviously have a child, so we want to be midful of other ppls budget. If we got married here, we could invite all our friends and do it party style downtown. There is also a winery about 20 min from us, so we could do it there with all of our friends or, we could do it family/close friends only on a beach somewhere. I just can't decide whats more important to us.
That is awesome. It makes me think of Pride and Predjudice!
I liked my wedding a lot. We had the ceremony in the church I grew up in and the reception at my parent's house (where I grew up). If I had it to do over again, I'd do all of that the same.
But if H and I were to get remarried (to each other, obvs), I would do a simple beach thing. I can't imagine going to all that trouble though. I never really understood recommittal ceremonies. Hopefully, we'll stay committed to each other and won't need one.
I've always thought that I wouldn't have a traditional wedding. I figured we would do the justice of the peace thing and be done with it. I find that so many ppl stress over the wedding and spend so much time/money on that more so than they do their actual marriage. I'm like...save the money and let's be practical. But, everyone around me says...it only happens once and you need to at least do something small with your close friends and family. I've been so very blessed that I've kept friendships from grade school and now that we've established a life here (2 hrs away from my hometown) I've made new friendships. I just can't figure out how I would choose who I want at our wedding if we did it small and I don't want a huge wedding either.
Definitely beach destination wedding.
We would have had a beach destination wedding but DH's mom was terminally ill with cancer. So we had a traditional wedding that she was able to attend. Before she got sick, DH's brother eloped to Hawaii and didn't even invite his mother. I would not have been able to live with myself if she did not get to see DH get married. I tear up just thinking about the mother/son dance and what an amazing memory it is.
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napa/winery or beach.
i did a big church wedding and fancy reception the first time. i loved it but wouldnt do it again. i would do something small and intimate if i were ever to get married again. and i would not wear a ballgown again lol. heaviest most uncomfortable and hot/sweaty dress to wear in june ever. it was like a swamp under that ballgown skirt LOL (which is exactly what i said to DH on the dance floor as he went to get the garter !)
We got married on Maui. If you want stress free that is the way to go. I had a coordinator that had packages you picked what you wanted & added other stuff if needed. Loved our wedding. We had just a few close friends & family. We ended up just doing a luau for the reception party which everyone loved. We lost a few friends because they could not afford to come & thought we should pay for them to go. Sorry if that is going to ruin a relationship see ya!
I would feel funny having the same kind of wedding if I married someone else. So probably do a winery since I live so close.
My first wedding had about 50 guests and wasn't at a church; it was at a wedding location. The planning was ridic. I can't recommend it.
If I were having a second marriage, it would be very, very small; possibly only my H and our kid(s).
Even if your MIL wants to help out and give you the wedding of your dreams, I just couldn't justify anyone spending that kind of money on a party, especially with a kid in the picture. (By "that kind of money" I'm talking a traditional, large wedding with all the fixins.) Wouldn't you prefer that your MIL spend the money on your LO?
And if you never wanted a big wedding, don't do it because everyone says "you have to at least once." That's the dumbest advice I ever heard. That means they want to see you in a big white dress and find out if you turn into bridezilla.