I need to send out Save the Date cards. Which means I need to go to Staples, get the paper, decide on a design, print them, cut them, address them and send them. sigh. Unfortunately, life is not letting me do that.
I did check out a book from the library called "Love, Marriage and Money". I also checked out "Frugal Luxuries, simple pleasures to enhance your life and comfort your soul" and "Total Money Makeover". It is time for pre-marital debt confessions and budget making. Really, if you spent as much time as people want you spend planning a wedding on things like this, I think the divorce rate would be lower. I want to plan for a marriage, not just a wedding.
Well, must go read and pack. I am moving soon! I think.
Any budget tips and/or motivational words to get my ass in gear would be appreciated. You know, for the 2 of you who read this!
Love!!!!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Countdown: 169 days!
Ok, here is what is done:
Dress
place
Yikes! that's it. Lots in the works, but when you are DIY-ing most of it, it seems to take a while. I want to make sure it is right and representative of us. One example: save the date cards. At first I thought we would make and send out seed packets with the date on them. Great idea...except the shipping costs! So that was sidelined and is going to be used as wedding favors. Back to Save the date drawing board.
The final decision is to send out postcards. I am going to make them, by printing them on good, thick cardstock and cutting to postcard size. I love postcards, so this idea resonates with me. Here are some ideas that I have for the postcards, that I may or may not do, but are adorable (in my humble opinion).
-making Tshirts (either screenprinted or just iron on letters) for each of us to wear that say 'Save the Date' and 'May 10, 2008'. Taking a picture and printing it out as the postcards!
-Simple font with only 'A celebration of Scott and Elisa. May 10, 2008'.
You know, thinking of new ideas is much more fun then actually making a decision and doing it. Story of my life!
My dress was only $230 bucks (thanks Bridesmaids in Birmingham, AL). It is a tea length 'bridesmaids' gown, and i love it. Tea length bridesmaids gown: $200, Tea length 'wedding' gown: $1000!!! Ridiculous. A dress is something you think about your whole life, and that is totally taken advantage of. Most of the time you only wear it once. I would love to pass it on to my daughter and I have no doubt that I can pass down a $200 dress just as easily as I can pass a $1000 dress! ANYWAY, I love it and feel so beautiful in it. It only took me 45 minutes to pick it out, be sized and order it. Yea knowing what you want!
That's all the wedding talk I can muster on Thanksgiving!
Thankful for Scott and the family we are going to have together in 169 days!
Elisa
Dress
place
Yikes! that's it. Lots in the works, but when you are DIY-ing most of it, it seems to take a while. I want to make sure it is right and representative of us. One example: save the date cards. At first I thought we would make and send out seed packets with the date on them. Great idea...except the shipping costs! So that was sidelined and is going to be used as wedding favors. Back to Save the date drawing board.
The final decision is to send out postcards. I am going to make them, by printing them on good, thick cardstock and cutting to postcard size. I love postcards, so this idea resonates with me. Here are some ideas that I have for the postcards, that I may or may not do, but are adorable (in my humble opinion).
-making Tshirts (either screenprinted or just iron on letters) for each of us to wear that say 'Save the Date' and 'May 10, 2008'. Taking a picture and printing it out as the postcards!
-Simple font with only 'A celebration of Scott and Elisa. May 10, 2008'.
You know, thinking of new ideas is much more fun then actually making a decision and doing it. Story of my life!
My dress was only $230 bucks (thanks Bridesmaids in Birmingham, AL). It is a tea length 'bridesmaids' gown, and i love it. Tea length bridesmaids gown: $200, Tea length 'wedding' gown: $1000!!! Ridiculous. A dress is something you think about your whole life, and that is totally taken advantage of. Most of the time you only wear it once. I would love to pass it on to my daughter and I have no doubt that I can pass down a $200 dress just as easily as I can pass a $1000 dress! ANYWAY, I love it and feel so beautiful in it. It only took me 45 minutes to pick it out, be sized and order it. Yea knowing what you want!
That's all the wedding talk I can muster on Thanksgiving!
Thankful for Scott and the family we are going to have together in 169 days!
Elisa
Friday, November 16, 2007
So, I've started yet another blog
Hi there! Welcome to my 'cheap wedding' blog, that I am calling how I Do. This is sort of a spin off to Cheap Women, a blog that my friend Carrie and I started. Check it out here. This blog will concentrate on my upcoming nuptials, hopefully showing fun, creative, thrifty ways to plan a lovely wedding.
Here is the story: Between both families, we (Scott and I) have been given $10000 for a wedding and honeymoon. Well, we have decided to spend most of that on the honeymoon (no cheap honeymoon tips here!), so we have approx. $2000 to throw a wedding on. We are inviting about 175-200 people and have a little less than 6 months to do it. Oh yes, rings are included in the $2000.
We have already booked flights and lodging in Athens, Greece for $4800 dollars, so we can't change our mind and spend more money on the wedding! I want our wedding to be a fun, classic, hip party that reflects us, both seperatly and as the awesome couple that we are. Scott loves cooking and entertaining, I love decorating and creating (crafting, etc), so we want all of that to show.
So...welcome aboard my wild ride. I plan to include tips, links, ideas, etc. In addition to a place to share my spend-thrift ways, this will probably end up being a reflection of my ideas of the 'wedding market', our culture and my ideas on marriage. {I may extend it to 'how to make a tiny budget and 1.5 incomes(Scott is going back to school) work for newlyweds who are both in debt and in love' when the wedding is over and real life begins.}
Countdown: 188 days!
Here is the story: Between both families, we (Scott and I) have been given $10000 for a wedding and honeymoon. Well, we have decided to spend most of that on the honeymoon (no cheap honeymoon tips here!), so we have approx. $2000 to throw a wedding on. We are inviting about 175-200 people and have a little less than 6 months to do it. Oh yes, rings are included in the $2000.
We have already booked flights and lodging in Athens, Greece for $4800 dollars, so we can't change our mind and spend more money on the wedding! I want our wedding to be a fun, classic, hip party that reflects us, both seperatly and as the awesome couple that we are. Scott loves cooking and entertaining, I love decorating and creating (crafting, etc), so we want all of that to show.
So...welcome aboard my wild ride. I plan to include tips, links, ideas, etc. In addition to a place to share my spend-thrift ways, this will probably end up being a reflection of my ideas of the 'wedding market', our culture and my ideas on marriage. {I may extend it to 'how to make a tiny budget and 1.5 incomes(Scott is going back to school) work for newlyweds who are both in debt and in love' when the wedding is over and real life begins.}
Countdown: 188 days!
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