I recently eloped, I was so excited it was so simple and perfect. It was a weekday and we had on comfy clothes and matching sneakers. We did it like this because we had a time discrepancy with our original plan. Originally we were going to do it at the courthouse and invite all of the family. We talked about two dates but was really leaning towards one. So I pulled some strings and finalized with the courthouse just for him to come back and tell me he ships out that day and not the next day. By this point I'm over it, I told him forget we will get married next year. But he so determined for things to go his way he said he wasn't shipping out without marrying me, he wants me to move with him so I said ok cool you want it so bad you make it work and he did. He also promised me that because it was so last minute, we took one picture, were the only ones there and didn't get to celebrate at all that we would have an actual wedding and reception next year. Just for us to get married and him to come back and say he doesn't know when we will be able to have one. Now I feel bamboozled because he knew that but because he wanted stuff his way he was deceiving and manipulative. I feel like I just had and arranged marriage and getting shipped off to the other side of the world to be a house wife.