Ideal place for a wedding?

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Assuming, of course, you have plans on getting married, where would you want to have the ceremony at?

Due to my undying fascination with Japanese culture, I think it would be great if I were to hold a wedding at a Japanese Tea Garden (http://japaneseteagardensf.com/index.php). My next choice would be a courthouse.

renting a location for a wedding is absurdly expensive.

a decent place can cost as much as $5000.
my stepsis had hers at a state park and they still had to pay about $2000
also special or exotic/popular locations may cost well over $5000 i imagine.

I'll scrounge up the money....somehow...

Have a groom in mind already then?

If I ever do get married (unlikely), I want it to happen in an Apple Store

No, but I really don't plan on getting married until, maybe, my late 20s or 30s. By then, I'm hoping to be financially secure enough and have a decent-paying job so that I can afford it. Also, depending on the legality of same-sex marriage in the United States (surely more states will have legalized it by then, if not the entire country), I may or may not have to travel out-of-state in order to get hitched. Unless SCOTUS legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide, Texas sure as hell won't have legalized it by then.

Like I said, I'm talking about ideal places to get married. If I can't afford it, then I'll settle for a courthouse wedding.

I wanted to get married on Halloween in a spooky place and have everyone dress up. Zombie Bride and Groom....That was shot down...

Then I wanted to go to Vegas and get married by Elvis...That was shot down too...

Courthouse it is. 20 bucks. Spent the money on the honeymoon.

Those ideas sound fun, but I feel that the fun stuff involved would be a distraction from the symbolic nature of the ceremony. Still, though, I'd definitely attend a wedding like that, just to see what it would be like.

That is how my husband felt, and that it's a serious thing that I was making light of. I understand that so we didn't go that route. My thing was that I was his third wife, and he already had 2 big weddings so I wasn't comfortable walking down the isle in front of his family. Moreso, I don't like to be the center of attention. I didn't care about the wedding itself so much, I just wanted to be married and I thought I could do something fun and different and outside of the norm. I'm sure that would have been a wedding to remember, particularly the Halloween one. I would have LOVED that!

I tend to be a control freak about such things, but I've learned how to pick my battles! My wife made and executed ALMOST every aspect of our wedding day--but I was lord of the honeymoon! The only thing that I insisted on contributed to the ceremony was the music. The pre-service music was entirely written by me, and I hired a string quartet and a pianist to perform it. For the actual ceremony, all the music was requested by my wife, and I either arranged or transcribed it for my musicians.

The actual setting was not the main sanctuary but the much smaller chapel behind it. We opted to have our wedding in the morning for the simple reason that the stained-glass window in front faces southeast, catching the sun perfectly during that part of the day. We hardly had to use any artificial lighting at all.

I'd say the beach, anywhere really.

But yeah, even I was too young to really remember anything, my parents got married in the courthouse in Flushing a couple months after I was born.

Sounds beautiful!

I want to have it on the moon. I cant think of anything more romantic rite now than looking down at the Earth we escaped from Seriously thou; I don't really care where it is; signing paperwork in a court office would work for me. What's important is the person I'm doing it with & knowing my luck she'll be imaginary