Is it normal to have no desire to plan a wedding?

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To preface, this has nothing to do with the man I'm marrying. I love him, we have the best relationship- I cannot wait to marry him.

However, I got engaged about a month ago and have absolutely NO desire to plan a wedding. I'm an incredibly outgoing and bubbly person. You would think, of all people, I would have a wedding. We both have fantastic people in our lives who would love to celebrate us. But I just don't care to have a wedding.

Everyone I know who has been engaged was so excited to plan a wedding. But I'm just not experiencing that. I have been doing research on venues and everything that goes into a wedding, and the more research I do, the less interested I become. Like, I can't justify paying $50k for a wedding. I love my fiancé so much, and planning a wedding for 200 people to celebrate us feels so fake for some reason. I don't need the whole world there. It's nice to be celebrated, sure, but it just doesn't feel like me. Obviously, I know I can make it a smaller wedding, or I could elope; it's not really about that.

I also think a lot of my feelings about this stem from being in so many weddings within the last 5 years of my life that I am just burnt out on them altogether. All the weddings feel like it was about the party and not the couple. That's not how I want to feel. I guess I don't know how to feel. I am getting a lot of pressure from both sides of the family to have a wedding. There are a lot of different ways to plan a wedding; I'm aware of that. IDK. I just don't have a desire to do anything other than go to the courthouse.

Is there anyone else out there who just didn't care? If so, what did you do? Did you end up throwing a wedding? Did you end up eloping? Did you regret it? Do you wish you did something different instead? How do I get excited to plan a wedding?

Also, I don't understand everyone telling me to enjoy the engagement phase. It feels the same as it did before. We're closer after getting engaged. But I also just want to go to the courthouse with him tomorrow.

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 8:26 PM UTC

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