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Gettyimage.com/circa 1965: View of a ‘Just Married’ sign and streamers attached to the back of a convertible. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Lambert/Getty Images)

You know how your wedding day is supposed to be your big day? Well, it’s not. It’s your mom’s big day. It’s the big day of that cousin who is hoping to get into wedding planning and wanted to use you to build her portfolio. It is your grandmother’s big day—it was one of the last things she hoped to see in her old age. It was even the big day of your perpetually single best friend who was hoping to meet someone at your wedding. As you can see, it was a big day for a lot of people. And when you elope, some of those people may feel cheated. That wasn’t your intention, of course. You’re just extremely busy and didn’t want to deal with the hassle of planning a wedding. Saving the money on a giant event didn’t hurt, either. But try and get everyone else to see it that way. It’s not easy. If you and your honey decide to run off and tie the knot in some tiny chapel in the middle of nowhere, just be ready to face the music. Here is how people react when you elope.

 

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They don’t give gifts

Don’t expect too many gifts if you elope. Part of the reason people give gifts is that they want to pay you back for the nice dinner and open bar you treat them to at your wedding. But oops…you didn’t have that. So they may feel, “Why should I drop $100 on a gift for you when you didn’t even want to include me in the celebration?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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