I agree, planning a wedding in another country is incredibly difficult. People always say oh it must be so stress free.. Ummm no.. There are language barriers. Travel restrictions, we have to literally carry our dress, our favours, our decorations, and all our dependent guests through airports and listen to them whine while we're at it. I've run into a few pitfalls but now that I'm only a month and a half away from the wedding I've decided it'll be whatever it will be. I still end up just as married. I get really upset when people say "it must be so much cheaper". Seriously, what's it to you what we are paying..and not only that but we aren't doing it here because it's cheaper, we're doing it here because our families don't conveniently live in the same spot we do, they are spread out and they also haven't met. I CAN say that I lay guilt trips on FI more now that we're engaged but he hasn't done much of anything to help planning so I'm getting resentful.