So my fiancé and I got engaged in December after dating for three years. I have anxiety and planning a wedding while working and finishing my degree is already proving to be stressful. I’m a very private person and I don’t have many friends but I do have a lot of family. My fiancé has a lot of really close friends but a very small family. We have been planning to have a wedding with about 100 people at the end of this year (2018). However, we are going to Colorado in the summer with my parents in June and now we’re trying to decide if we’d rather elope in the mountains than have a big wedding ceremony with all the stress that entails. I have always envisioned an outdoors, rustic wedding, but we live in South Florida which is not an ideal spot for outdoor weddings both because of the weather and the lack of natural beauty (plus I hate the beach). It seems like an elopement in the Rockies would be a dream come true, but I don’t want to disappoint our family and friends from attending our ceremony. Of course, we could do the elopement and then have a celebration ceremony with our friends and family later in the year, but that would still mean a lot of stress. Really, we just want to get married, but there is a part of me that wants that traditional wedding ceremony. Either choice is fine with my fiancé. I would really appreciate your thoughts!