A bride went on a solo bachelorette trip, and it saved her money and stress

“I feel like the greatest gift that I could get is my friends attending my wedding, and that’s all I want,” she said.

Torres had also opted not to have a bridal party, so she didn’t have a maid or matron of honor planning the trip. She told BI that the bachelorette came to feel like an additional stressor on top of wedding planning rather than a way to relax ahead of her nuptials.

“I told myself, ‘Oh my God, I don’t think I’m even happy doing this plan anymore, and I gotta figure out what I really want to do. Because at this point, I’m just catering to everybody else, and I’m not catering to what the actual point of having a bachelorette is about,'” she said.

About two months before the trip was supposed to take place, Torres decided to call off the big bachelorette in favor of a solo adventure.

The bride chose a solo trip instead

Instead of traveling to California, Torres went to Palm Beach, around an hour and a half from Miami, for a long weekend at the end of July.

“I love Palm Beach in general,” she said. “It’s so curated. It’s cute. It’s aesthetic, and it really screams me as the general vibe.”

She stayed at the Colony Palm Beach, which she selected because of its all-pink aesthetic.

Torres’ solo trip also allowed her to celebrate getting married the way she wanted, which she thinks might not have happened if she had a larger bachelorette.

“I feel like the general vibe for a bachelorette is celebrating your last moments of being single,” she said. “It kind of gives a negative connotation to marriage.”

“I wanted to take the time to reflect and just be at peace and celebrate that I did find such an amazing partner in life,” Torres continued. “I don’t care that I’m saying goodbye to my single life. I’m just looking forward to my new chapter and my new role in life as a wife.”

Torres wants other engaged people to know they don’t have to celebrate their impending nuptials the way they see other people do.

“I just think it’s so important to show that there’s no one way to do this phase of life. At the beginning, when you get engaged, I feel like everybody’s telling you the right way of doing things,” she said, adding that “it’s a lot of pressure.”

While choices like her solo bachelorette, forgoing a bridal party, and walking down the aisle with both of her parents might not be traditional, they feel right to Torres.

“No two brides are the same, so why do they have to have the exact same path?” she said.