Cancelled wedding to elope instead

Me and fiancé decided to cancel our wedding on November but we are still in a very good position in our relationship. Reason that we have to cancel it is that both of our family can’t attend due to distance + financial issues on their side. We want to get married here in UK and both our families live abroad. Aside from that, we also had issues with our group of friends to the point that we are questioning about the genuineness of friendship. We both see no reason to spend £10000 in a wedding just for “friends” that we just met recently and no assurance if they are going to be our friends forever. We’d rather spend that money on our dream honeymoon which is we both agreed on. We are still getting married in an earlier date this October but just with 12 guests. I’m thinking of something like elopement. We already announced the cancellation but I didn’t mention that we have a really small wedding happening. I’m still searching for a small function/dining room that can host small wedding like ours. Sometimes i feel sad about the £2000 deposit that we lost but i felt more at peace. Me and fiancé agreed that this is the best thing to do. Losing £2000 really hurts me since I am really money savvy but we just see it as a life lesson. Atleast we didn’t lose £10000 and regret it later on. Me and FH are still so happy.