<human>: My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years, and recently the topic of marriage has come up as something we'd like to do soon, so of course we've been discussing it. We recently moved from the midwest to Las Vegas, and it's been kind of a running joke that we'll get married here, but it's turned into not-so-much a joke the more we've talked about it. 

 I am very much not a "white wedding" person, the idea of sinking thousands of dollars into one day is just absurd to me, paired with the fact that I am currently in grad school and just do not have the time to plan a wedding. My boyfriend is a little on the fence. I know he wants a party, so I thought maybe we could compromise with a destination type wedding. Our families could fly here, we could have a cheesy little wedding, and then a small group of family/close friends could hit the strip/Fremont to celebrate. It would be a blast and not break the bank. We're still working on the details, but my boyfriend seems to really love this idea since we've both fallen in love with Vegas.

The problem: My boyfriend's mom and sister really want us to have a big, white, Christian wedding. My knee-jerk reaction upon hearing this was to roll my eyes (we're not even Christian) but they have seriously pushed the issue every time we talk to them. They think a Vegas wedding would be tacky and that we would regret not having a traditional wedding. 

 I refuse to go into debt to please someone else, but I want to navigate this situation delicately. I really love my boyfriend's family, and I don't want there to be any animosity between us. We both (BF and I) really do NOT want a traditional wedding, but we both also don't want to devastate his mother. What are ways that we can politely tell her that it's not her day?

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<bot>: Boyfriend and I do not want a traditional wedding, boyfriend's mom wants us to have a traditional wedding VERY MUCH. How do we **politely** tell her to pound sand?