For many couples, the pressure to include certain wedding traditions in your ceremony can be pretty intense. Whether it's your relatives, your venue, or some other external source, sometimes you can feel like you're being forced to have a wedding that doesn't feel 100% like you. I can say from personal experience that I definitely struggled with the idea of not having a more traditional wedding (at first, anyway). Initially Kevin and I were under the impression that a local church would marry us, but after speaking with one of the pastors we were told that we didn't "pass their test" since we weren't yet comfortable with the idea of joining a weekly bible study.
