We had a huge wedding. We had 275 guests and we were married at our college. Our college used to be a Catholic convent so the chapel was actually HUGE and had a marble floor and stain glass higher from floor to ceiling in a three story area. It was beyond words. The organ was the biggest pipe organ in east of the Mississippi River and we were married in the late afternoon with the sun shining in through the stain glass windows...it was magical.
However, being still students at the time we were poor...lucky for us the chapel was so amazing in and of itself. We had simple white pew bows and one flower arrangement on the alter (and a unity candle). The organist, two soloists and even the pastor (it was a Luthern college) who married us all volunteered their time.
I think we had the most beautiful ceremony (not even just cause it was mine

). It was truly magical.
We were married Labor Day weekend right after the start of our senior year of college. My mom had been on and off of life support for the preceeding three months and when she was finally well enough to attend our wedding we just went ahead and got married. It was very important to me that she be there at my wedding...more important then waiting and doing it "better" later. Turns out her doctors were wrong and she had far more then the "two months at best" her doctors predicted...she lived to see the birth of our son 11 months later (I was supposed to be unable to get pregnant...so it was a big surprise for us when we found out we would be having a baby that Thanksgiving). She also lived to see his first birthday. Sadly, she didn't make it to celebrate his second birthday.
All in all I would love to do that again in a heartbeat (with the same guy

...but I also secretly dream of a wedding with just dh and I and a tropical breeze.
Oh and HELLO CHATTERS!!