No wedding

[Zoe12 5]

My husband and I did not have wedding because we have no family here at all. So we didn't make a big deal out of it and just celebrated to ourselves at home. We do not care about wedding celebration. We rather spend money on honeymoon but I‘m concerned it doesn't look good on the application?? 

[Free Man 115]

No issue at all, i asked about wedding, i told the officer we could not afford it. 

[Zoe12 5]

7 minutes ago, Ras Ous said:

No issue at all, i asked about wedding, i told the officer we could not afford it. 

Oh, good! Thanks!!

[ch3john 308]

Many people just do a simple courthouse marriage. Another way to look at it, the requirement is to get married within 90 days, doesn't say have a wedding within 90 days.

[Zoe12 5]

4 minutes ago, ch3john said:

Many people just do a simple courthouse marriage. Another way to look at it, the requirement is to get married within 90 days, doesn't say have a wedding within 90 days.

Yes, that‘s what we did. Thank you!

[Ben&Zian 4,397]

Court house wedding here, no photos or anyting. No issues.

[JFH 12,189]

There is no requirement to have a party or a minimum spend requirement. There is only one requirement: a legal marriage. I wore a $25 dress, we had just 2 witnesses and went for fast food afterwards. That was it. We are no more or less married than people who spend $50,000 on a wedding at The Plaza. 

[Lil bear 3,842]

1 minute ago, JFH said:

There is no requirement to have a party or a minimum spend requirement. There is only one requirement: a legal marriage. I wore a $25 dress, we had just 2 witnesses and went for fast food afterwards. That was it. We are no more or less married than people who spend $50,000 on a wedding at The Plaza. 

But likely you are not in debt because of it .. even better !!! 😁

[Zoe12 5]

4 minutes ago, JFH said:

There is no requirement to have a party or a minimum spend requirement. There is only one requirement: a legal marriage. I wore a $25 dress, we had just 2 witnesses and went for fast food afterwards. That was it. We are no more or less married than people who spend $50,000 on a wedding at The Plaza. 

We went to grocery shopping at Walmart afterwards lol

We almost did self solemnization. So happy the court lady told us that it is not a good idea.

I was just worried that they would judge us as less serious because we didn't have a wedding. 

 

[Cryssiekins 976]

I wore a sundress that I spent less than $50 (and still wear regularly to work)... my husband had khakis and a dress shirt.  We have a whopping 2 wedding pictures.  We planned on having the minister marry us right at Niagara Falls, since it was October, we didn’t think it would be as busy, we were wrong, so we stayed up in the garden area, just a random spot by a tree.  And then we went for dinner, and then home.  Never had a big celebration either.  Some people want the big, fancy, expensive wedding and that’s great, but not everyone wants that, and that’s not always possible with a K1 visa.  As long as the marriage itself was legally performed, you’re good to go  

[Unidentified 2,930]

56 minutes ago, Zu11 said:

My husband and I did not have wedding because we have no family here at all. So we didn't make a big deal out of it and just celebrated to ourselves at home. We do not care about wedding celebration. We rather spend money on honeymoon but I‘m concerned it doesn't look good on the application?? 

Not an issue. Many do not have a wedding. My husband and I got married in a park. Only people there was the person marrying us plus a friend of ours who took photos. 

[Nicola and Jordan 668]

Married in a court house in jeans and jumper then went to a diner for beers 🍻 best day of my life ♥️

[geowrian 22,336]

Legal marriage is all that is required. No issue there.

 

I wouldn't personally say "I couldn't afford it" as the reason. I doubt it would raise too many questions, but there's still a public charge decision the IO has to make.

[theresaL 408]

I doubt $50K would buy much of a wedding at the Plaza. We had a beautiful wedding poolside at my cousins house (free venue), total cost for 100 guests= $4K (dress, shoes, flowers, food, drinks, cakes, DJ, rentals, invitations, paper consumables). No honeymoon per se. We did talk about a courthouse wedding  but then 10 family members decided to come from France, so we had a heck-of-a-party. The only thing that matters is the legal ceremony. 

[hell0w0rld08 18]

we got married in Las Vegas......... no party and no family as well.