I love your theme!  Wow, the peoples on this board are soooo creative!!!  Love love love it!!! 
And, how cute how you {CP} had a production company, too!  
Okay.  This thread and the subject of eloping and why people do it and how you {LSPE}, did not feel the way your sister did {your sister felt different about your mom} makes me compelled to post....
Back some time ago I posted that my daughter was 
planning on getting married.  Then they postponed it and they did have a few significant dates flying about, all more towards the end of the year.  
Well, they 'eloped' last Thursday.  To Vegas.  The Hubster and I were quite bummed.  Sure, we had offered a lot of things but we never said 'Oh, and we are going to do this and that and blah blah blah...'.  More so trying to give them ideas that a small wedding could be nice and inexpensive.  I know they were concerned about money.  Hello, so were we!!  
Inywho.  We aren't sad we couldn't give them a wedding.  We were sad we couldn't be there with them.  They are agreeable to a reception here, now, but how does one go about doing that????
Sorry, didn't mean to hijiack your thread but I am hoping it goes along with it??  
 
I really felt compelled to post because of how you said you didn't see it that way about your mom. I thought it was sweet and an example of how people can see the same thing differently.