At the time, my dad was already paying for his (re)marriage, and I knew if we tried to do a traditional thing he would try to pay for it, which he could NOT AFFORD, and doing the whole "traditional wedding" thing was never really something I had much care for. Since neither of us wanted to bother with the particulars and it was like we were pretty much already married at that point anyway, we just got the paper work and preacher to make it official and got on with it!