Me (24) & My Fiancé (26), have been together for almost 9 years & engaged for 4 months.

We are now wanting to elope instead of a big wedding, since neither of us have the money for our big families & we kind of just want it to be just us with our parents. It will be around 12 people not including us.

We are hoping to get married at the San Francisco City Hall in October of this year.

My questions are :

How do we ensure we get a date we want?

Also any tips on courthouse weddings would be nice?