Old-fashioned weddings waste time and money

When my boyfriend, now husband and I started talking about getting married, we had dozens of pictures in mind of how we would celebrate the big day, including bungee jumping, sky diving or planting trees, etc. Having a wedding banquet was never one of them.

In the end, we enjoyed a 10-day honeymoon on a trip to Australia and New Zealand, and we had a great time.

We wouldn't have been able to scuba dive and enjoy the gorgeous Great Barrier Reef with hundreds of tropical fish swimming beside us if we had stayed up nights arranging the seating plans for a banquet.