I recently did a detailed budget of the remaining wedding costs and it's a little painful. It doesn't even include the honeymoon which is several grand more. I'm hoping some of the travel costs will be alleviated by using rewards points. Everything is already booked, so the only areas I can save are smaller things like the Out of Town bags, centerpieces, placecards, and my accessories and shoes. Even then, the savings is hundreds which won't make that much of a difference. Planning to pay for it completely in cash would require us to save $3300 each month from December to May. That number does not account for any help from my or DF's parents. Both have agreed to help, but since we did not get a set number, we're trying to minimize the impact to them. I plan to sit down with DF tonight and go over this with him. As much as I want to do our original honeymoon plan, we may have to settle for coming back and doing a staycation or BnB getaway in our area.
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Butterscotch and VS, we do have two honeymoon things on our registry, but I don't want to count on it as we're destination and people are already spending a lot of money to come out.
PatientSaver, interestingly enough, we're not really decorating. We have table linens and are doing wine bottles as the centerpieces. All of our other florals are included in the venue package.
And Helen, that's probably the one thing I'm totally against. I've never really pictured my wedding, but the one thing I always was sure of was that I wanted to be surrounded by my friends and family. While it's certainly much more cost effective, that's not even on my radar as a solution.
November 19th, 2015 at 03:06 pm 1447945600
DH & I went to a nearby resort for one night for our honeymoon. We're still happily married 23 years later. We took several nice trips in the early years of our marriage; we just waited a bit.
What about planning for an anniversary trip to your wished-for honeymoon destination in a couple years, when you've had time to save up?
Never forget that a strong, long-lasting marriage is the ultimate goal, not a one-time blow-out event and fancy trip. Blessings to you and your DF.
November 20th, 2015 at 02:02 pm 1448028138
It sounds like you guys are on the right track with staying a couple of days after the wedding. Finding low-stress solutions is key, I think. Honestly, it's so easy to get bogged down and bummed out. But you're getting married! And that's the important thing to keep in mind
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