Man, I wish I would have read this thread before we bought our plane tickets. We wanted to do our legal marriage here in VA on Feb 3rd (our first date & the day he proposed) because I wanted to keep everything the same date. I didn't want to have the ceremony on a Tuesday in Mexico. But it makes pretty good sense to do it at home because we would be saving like $600 and we don't have to worry about all of the legal stuff down there. And I don't mind changing my last name when we get back. Question, did some of you ladies just go to the Justice of the Peace or did you do a whole ceremony? I don't mind people knowing we got "legally" married beforehand so I was thinking of just going to get married and have maybe 5 people at the most there and do like a lunch or dinner afterwards.