The Smaller Cheaper Just-for-us Wedding

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RUBY DEE PHILIPPA's first wedding took place in 2000. It was elaborate, so much so that she estimated that her in-laws spent several thousand dollars on flowers alone. The marriage, she said, lasted less than a year.

So when the time came to do it again, Ms. Philippa, 47, a former restaurant owner, author of Ruby's Juke Joint Americana Cookbook and lead singer in the rockabilly band Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers, went in the other direction cheap prom dresses 2012. She and Jorge Harada, 43, a librarian and guitarist for the group, went to a justice of the peace one Friday in April 2011.

And for the reception? The couple gave a barbecue the next day in their backyard in Austin, Tex. Invitations went out via Evite. Guests brought the food, drinks, dishes, grills, pillows and chairs.

It was a picnic, really, Ms. Philippa said. No one had to dress up. They could come in shorts or they could put on nice clothes.

More than a decade after dresses to wear to a wedding bridezilla entered the lexicon, ...
... two years after the wedding of Chelsea Clinton set her parents back by an estimated $2 million to $5 million, almost a year after Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries spent a rumored $10 million to celebrate what turned out to be a mere 10 weeks of marriage, and even as shows like Say Yes to the Dress remain popular, a small but growing number of brides and grooms are opting to downsize.
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