Same with us, to avoid the residency requirement and all of that brouhaha we are doing the courthouse thing like the week before, but not exchanging rings or the other wedding night stuff (may be TMI). We are doing the "traditional" vows at the courthouse, and writing our own for our wedding in the DR, which neither of us will see beforehand. So there will be a fresh excitement in the DR because we will hear vows that the other person wrote, get rings, and have a "honeymoon"