My fiance has expressed that she doesn't want an expensive engagement ring but knows I wanted to get her one that was roughly 10K. Do I still go all out or listen to her and get a cheaper ring? I don't believe in ring upgrades later on down the line.

My fiance and I are considering having a wedding out of state. We understand that not everyone would be able to attend. Is it rude to have or not have a local reception in addition to our out of state wedding/reception?  Sorry I meant to write "reception" in the question not "ceremonies". We would have one ceremony out of state

My fiance and I are considering a few options regarding our wedding/marriage including getting married before the wedding. Our religion prevents us from living together before marriage and this is something that he and I as well as our families and church plan to follow. However, there are several out of state job opportunities for him and we would like to go together to start our lives there. Unfortunately, we both have student loans we are currently working toward paying off and we believe that having the type of wedding we want wouldn't be a wise financial decision. We want to get legally married and then a year or so later have the actual wedding with the bridal shower, bachleor/bachelorette parties and so on. I have seen online many different opinions including some calling this selfish. We are more concerned with starting our life together without having such a financial burden preventing us from doing so. Is this a good option to further reconsider? Do you have any advice? I guess I also am curious is this something that younger generations are considering. 

My husbands dad got laid off at work and hasn't worked for 8 years, he's not even 60 yet.  I've just received our wedding photos and I am feeling very annoyed with his dad as we bought him a new suit especially and arranged all the button holes and he isn't even wearing his button hole, when I asked him about it he said it was too bulky and he didn't like it, his wife also didn't wear hers so our group family photos all of my family are wearing them and they aren't so it looks like I didn't bother with their side.  He also isn't smiling in any of the photos and my husband said apparently he never does in pictures as he hates having his photo taken. He literally looks so miserable and his only son and only child just got married! He's also got long hair and it looks so scruffy like he's not brushed it for days! I know nothing can be done now but I'm asking here as would this annoy you? I feel he made no effort and didn't take our wedding seriously. 

So I have an friend (my fiance's cousin's fiance) who is getting married a month before me. She is planning on having me as I bridesmaids and out of obligation I may have mentioned reciprocating the favor months ago when talking about weddings. FYI I have only know her for 2 years. I haven't asked asked any of them yet as I'm still waiting until we get closer as we have 18 month until the wedding.  I have decided to keep it all family and do my cousins niece and sister in laws except my moh who is my BFF.  Am I wrong for changing my mind and wanting to keep it just family on my wedding day? I don't want to of something out of obligation that I'll be in theirs and have to reciprocate the favor.