I really don't like this idea, and I especially don't like the invitation. There is too much writing everywhere, and the poem is terrible! Not only is it annoying by trying to be cute, it's not a good poem. scansion is whack, adjectives are being used as nouns, etc! Ugh!! If you have to include a poem at least try to make it good!

It's also weird that they said they don't need a wedding to prove their love and so they got engaged because they want to throw a big party before all their friends get too old or have too many kids. ??

I agree with ilysespieces above who said she hopes this doesn't become a trend. I really hope it doesn't!

The whole thing is rude. If an intimate wedding isn't your "bag" but you can't afford a big one, then go to a public beach or a public park and invite 2,000 of your closest friends and family to celebrate for free.

I think this couple could take a tip or two from Emily Post's famous 1922 tips: "When a poor girl marries, her wedding must be in keeping with the means of her parents. It is not only inadvisable for them to attempt expenditure beyond what they can afford, but they would lay themselves open to far greater criticism through inappropriate lavishness, than through meagerness of arrangement—which need not by any means lack charm because inexpensive...Some years ago there was a wedding when a girl who was poor married a man who was rich and who would gladly have given her anything she chose, the beauty of which will be remembered always by every witness in spite of, or maybe because of, its utter lack of costliness....Later on, she had all the clothes that money could buy, but in none of them was she ever more lovely than in her fashionless wedding dress of tarlatan and tulle, and the plain little frock in which she drove away. Nor are any of the big parties that she gives to-day more enjoyable, though perfect in their way, than her wedding on a June day, a number of years ago."