So turn it into a plot point. Maybe someone in Kaylee's extended family is bitchy and finds it improper that she eloped.

In fact, if you had a richer side of Kaylee's family, and Kaylee is from the poorer side that the rich side always looks down on, that might actually explain a lot.

Not a bad idea, Bytemite. Although the way I left it, the trip back to Kaylee's home world for the wedding had to be delayed and she and Simon decided to elope while the ship was on Persephone...

Betcha if you wrote from the POV of someone who hates weddings, you could pull it off.

Haha, oh, that's excellent. You know what you could do? Take out all your frustrations and dislikes about weddings and put it into the story with Simon and Kaylee's special event goes horribly, hilariously wrong. Where Kaylee has some parts of her family that just don't get along, and well, yeah. Eventually, the crew just gets the hell out of Dodge before the Feds show up.

Then at the end, subvert the whole thing and have it that Kaylee doesn't mind her wedding was ruined, she's just glad nobody got shot! It's a complete success in her mind!