The result? Hardman and Reading got exactly the day they hoped for, for about $4,500. And they started their marriage out by focusing on their relationship, not their wedding.
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“Everyone who came, they said it couldn’t have been more perfect than if you had a whole year to plan it,” Hardman said. “They said there was nothing that felt left out, there was nothing that felt rushed or undone.”
She says she told her story because in this world of the “quickie divorce,” she hopes it will make people think about what marriage really MEANS.
“My hope was that it would start a conversation, of questioning these things that happen in weddings,” she says. “I hoped that it would at least cause someone who is planning their wedding, to say, ‘Maybe I don’t need to spend $10,000 on the party favors.'”
For my part, I echo what Hardman said her mother’s response to her supersonic-speed wedding plans were: “Hallelujah! Hallelujah for putting the relationship above a wedding reception.”
What do you think?
