Two more important reasons behind our decision...2. We already got married in Vegas!
Okay, not really. But that is a picture of us at the Wedding Chapel in Paris Las Vegas. When we were on that fabulous first trip, we decided it would be really funny to pull a practical joke on two of our friends back home by convincing them that we got married in Vegas. One of said friends had tried to pull the same joke on us earlier that year, but no one bought it. We knew we could do better! So we bought some fake wedding rings, took some pictures of us wearing them, sent some fake drunken picture texts, and voila! They totally bought it. As fun as the whole joke was, the real significance of it in the end was that it brought about the first conversation we had ever really had about getting married, and planted quite a bit of a seed in us. We wore our rings for two days and talked about what it would be like to actually get married in Vegas someday. Although we were not at all serious about it at the time, it was yet another special tie we made to Las Vegas. (And just FYI, Pete and I will be wearing our *fake* rings on our right hands when we really DO get married in Vegas!)
Well this is a pretty simple reason. We realized that if we were to get married in either Pete's hometown, my hometown, or the city we live, we would inevitably have a much bigger guest list than we either want or could afford. Bigger guest list = bigger price tag. We LOVED the idea of a destination wedding because we knew it would mean only those who really wanted to be there would be there. And, we really did research and compare costs of both AZ and IL...Vegas won over the numbers almost every time.
Coming up next: Part Four of Why Vegas.
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