Elopement wedding recommendations?

[k4tiemay]

My partner, daughter and I are planning to elope next Sept - we've told everyone, but we don't want the fuss of a big wedding. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've been looking at Beach Weddings by Joanie in Cocoa beach or the (cheaper) Lora Lynne's weddings in Daytona. We could just courthouse it, but I thought I might regret having no pics etc afterwards if we did that.
Does anyone have any experience of these? Or reasons why we should choose Cocoa beach over Daytona?
We plan to book a meal at California Grill to celebrate afterwards - we're on DDP xx

[BLDY&McGoo]

Read my trip report day about our wedding in 2013

We used vows are forever as our minister but chose Kraft azelea Gardens as our location which was lovely.
They are a family run business. The husband and son are the ministers (although i believe the son does most nowadays) and the mum does all the organising/takes photos etc
Id do it again in a heartbeat x

[k4tiemay]

Ah thanks so much, I'll have a read xxx

[dreamcatcher]

Originally Posted by k4tiemay

My partner, daughter and I are planning to elope next Sept - we've told everyone, but we don't want the fuss of a big wedding. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've been looking at Beach Weddings by Joanie in Cocoa beach or the (cheaper) Lora Lynne's weddings in Daytona. We could just courthouse it, but I thought I might regret having no pics etc afterwards if we did that.
Does anyone have any experience of these? Or reasons why we should choose Cocoa beach over Daytona?
We plan to book a meal at California Grill to celebrate afterwards - we're on DDP xx

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Sounds familiar lol xx We are doing exactly that in Feb 2017 with our son and are using Joanie @Cocoa Beach who has been fantastic so far and very easy to sort and answers all my silly questions xx

She does different packages with or without photos and also can do add ons xx.

So far cant believe how easy the process has been and as only 3 of us will be very special with just us and our 8yr old Sonxx

May have a party at some point when get back for friendsxx

We are also looking at Cali Grill to celebrate afterwards but will be a day or 2 later as want to do Old Town cars on Fri/Sat so will go later on and watch fireworks also.xx

[k4tiemay]

Ah - snap. I look forward to seeing how you get on.
I'm mostly very excited about having 2 weeks onsite at Disney at the moment - I'm sure the wedding excitement will come too xx

[ROBBOTOO]

We got married in Florida on our own, just the two of us.

We didn't have a beach wedding, but got married under a gazebo in Leu Gardens. Spectacular location. They also had a beautiful room we could have used had the weather not been good. Lucky for us we had a beautiful day.

Limo there and back and then a restaurant to watch the Disney fireworks that night.

Wonderful day. Wouldn't have changed anything.

[Vanillapod]

We had a tiny wedding (8 of us inc children) on Anna Maria in August and it was perfect (apart from the meal which was AWFUL!) I just arranged everything myself but I know there are packages available at The Sandbar. You just can't beat the sunset 🌅

[hols2florida]

We used Beach Weddings By Joanie in August 2013 & it was lovely. So easy to organise & I liked the fact that we could have exactly what we wanted. There were only 5 of us there, we ended up going through the Burger King drive through on our way as we were all starving!

[bexlee1]

Originally Posted by BLDY&McGoo

Read my trip report day about our wedding in 2013

We used vows are forever as our minister but chose Kraft azelea Gardens as our location which was lovely.
They are a family run business. The husband and son are the ministers (although i believe the son does most nowadays) and the mum does all the organising/takes photos etc
Id do it again in a heartbeat x

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We are planning on doing this exact thing next year to renew our vows! Can't decide between the rose garden or the kraft Azalea though... did you have an actual photographer? Xx

[BLDY&McGoo]

Originally Posted by bexlee1

We are planning on doing this exact thing next year to renew our vows! Can't decide between the rose garden or the kraft Azalea though... did you have an actual photographer? Xx

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No we didnt, we were going to have a dibber come but its quite far out and they didnt drive so she just came to the evening and we had photos there.

Marcia took photos for us but even if we had a proper photographer we wouldnt have had any posed photos as it was tipping it down!

We are going back next month and intend to Re visit the gardens and have a few couple photos taken and I intend to visit everytime we return for the rest of our lives (hopefully minus the rain) X