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As someone getting married soon who is having a small, inexpensive wedding I wanted to say the prep time isn't what you think.  
We are having about 18 months 'prep time' but that's just to secure the dates (if you want it in during a high demand time lime summer) and to give everyone enough notice.  Most of that time is just waiting around until about 3 months to the wedding when the final details are needed.
Your message isn't unpopular, your lack of punctuation, however — that's debatable. >

This sentence feels like am uncanny valley of grammar & punctuation. >

The best weddings I’ve been to have been simple and low budget. Good food, good conversation and a couple in love. Nowadays weddings have turned into such a production where you never even get to talk to bride and groom and most of the guests don’t even know the couple. >

This is not an unpopular opinion. I know a lot of people who will maybe spend 1,000$ or less on their wedding. >

The idea is romanticized in media and makes it seem like it is the norm to have an extravagant wedding. Then you have commercials making it seem like you have to buy expensive jewelry too. All overrated. >

My wife and I literally got married in this super beautiful room at the justice of the peace’s house.
We then proceeded to go take the money we would have spent on a big wedding and went to Walt Disney World for a week on our honeymoon and had an absolute wonderful time.
And I’m just as married and probably happier than 80 percent of people who have 25,000 blowout wedding. >

I think people should live within their means, and that includes weddings. If you have money to burn, hey, go for it. Otherwise, yes, I think it's wise to have a humble ceremony. >

I cut as much of my wedding down as I could reasonable do and it was still like 12k total. Things are just soooo expensive. But I know people who full on go into debt so they can have a 20-30k wedding and that to me is CRAZY.