Category Archives: Wedding-Talk Wednesday

WTW: The Budget

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For today’s Wedding-Talk Wednesday post, I figured I’d talk about the budget.

To be honest, we didn’t really set a budget. Sounds like a bad idea right? Well, not so much. We have a MASSIVE spreadsheet breaking down our costs, how much we’ve spent, how much we still have to spend, and who’s contributing what.

We also have a “We don’t want to spend more than $x on _____” system. For example, I didn’t want to spend more that $1,200 on photography, $1,200 on my dress (which my Mom is paying half for, Thanks Mom!), or $800 on the DJ. I got all of those UNDER my limit – Woo! We also didn’t really want to spend more than $20/person for dinner at the reception, which we got under out limit. (Roast beef buffet with all the trimmings by a FAB caterer!) We’re also going to be “classy” and have a “Toonie” bar (That’s $2 for you Americans, lol). We buy the booze and all beer and highballs are $2 each. Much cheaper than having an open bar, and easier on our guest’s wallets.

Our ceremony and reception venues are also relatively inexpensive. The ceremony location is owned by the local heritage society and the reception location is a City-owned community hall. We chose the community hall because we could have whoever we wanted to cater, and we could avoid the high-liquor costs for our guests. (Kyle and I attended a wedding where drinks were $6-$8 because the venue provided the liquor!)

How do you budget a big event? (Such as a vacation or wedding)

WTW: I’m a Crier

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I know I asked on Friday what you’d like me to blog about for today’s Wedding-Talk Wednesday (now abbreviated to WTW!) post, but instead I’m blogging about my ridiculous emotions.

Apparently, anything I see or hear about weddings, I start to get ridiculously overly emotional and tear up. I bawled my eyes out when Kyle proposed, and it hasn’t stopped since then.

While trying on wedding dresses, I cried a little when I found “the one”. (Which, by the way, I had sworn I’d never call my dress “the one” but that never happened) It didn’t really help that my mom started crying too. Oh yeah, random tangent: A week after we got engaged, my mom and I went out to look at wedding dresses just to “get an idea” of what I liked and didn’t like. Yeah …. I found a dress and fell in love! It’s so beautiful … I wish I could share it with you but I’m keeping it top-secret!

Okay, so I also bawled my eyes out watching the episode of Glee a couple weeks ago where Kurt and Finn’s parents get married. That song by Bruno Mars they enter the church in? I’m totally attempting to work that into my wedding somehow. Maybe as we enter the reception … hmm ….

And, I’ll randomly cry watching various wedding shows on Slice or TLC. What a sucker I am!

Of course, they’re not always happy tears. Wedding planning has been hard, and while we’ve gotten through a lot of the tough planning (like the guest list, which I’ll save for another post) there is still a LOT to get through. Just wait until I’m neck-deep in wedding invitation kits. Or trying to find the right shade of blue for the table runners.

And now I’m tempted to make myself bawl a little bit more by watching wedding-themed movies: 27 Dresses? Check! Sex and the City? Check! (Damn that Mr. Big!) Oh, maybe I’ll throw in Wedding Crashers just for shits and giggles.

If  you’re married, did you get sobby over silly little things? If you’re not, do you?

The Countdown Begins

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First of all, be sure to go check out my guest post over at Angela’s blog, Craving Cupcakes! She’s moving this week! Yay!

Welcome to the first (and definitely not last) instalment of Wedding-Talk Wednesday! I’ve decided to reserve all wedding talk for Wednesdays, because A) Wedding and Wednesday both start with the letter ‘W’ and it sounds good, and B) if you hate reading about weddings you can skip over my blog on Wednesdays because chances are, it will be about my pending wedding. Ready? OK!

So, as you may have already read, a few weeks ago, Kyle popped the magical question! And ever since then, I’ve been neck-deep in wedding planning. Why so soon? Well, we’ve set a date for June 4, 2011. That’s only six months away! But, I’ve learned that I’m a pretty gosh-darn efficient wedding planner! So far I’ve already:

  • Booked the ceremony venue
  • Booked the reception venue
  • Booked a DJ
  • Booked a photographer (I’m meeting with her tomorrow!)
  • Found and booked a marriage commissioner (The most important part!)
  • Booked a caterer (We’re meeting with him on Saturday!)
  • Found and ordered my dress
  • Found a florist (One of my aunts is an amazing florist!)
  • Bought invitations
  • Drafted a guest list

Crazy right? Go me!

Now, you may have also seen this Tweet the other day too:

And I did say to someone that I’d explain myself!

So, I had originally promised one of my friends back before she stopped speaking to me. Well, after I had announced on Facebook  that Kyle and I were engaged, she sent me a text congratulating me. After a couple days of deliberation, I asked her to be my MOH, to which she said, “Of course, but I’ll be overseas for field school. Can you move your date ahead a couple weeks?” (Remember this tweet?)

Now, I didn’t un-MOH her at that point. We went for coffee a few days after that, we chatted, I found things were too awkward, and went back home a little lost and still with a MOH that didn’t feel right. So, in the meantime, I asked my real best friend B from FSJ to be my MOH, and her reaction was what one’s reaction should be: Jumping for joy and having horrendous typo’s in the response because you’re too excited to type properly.

And yesterday I sent my original MOH a message asking her about field school and whether or not she was going, and she responded saying that she was. I felt less guilty about un-MOHing her and so happy with my decisions.

And now? Now have an amazing bridal party consisting of B, C and Mel. I’m relieved and excited to share my wedding day with three of my closest friends.

I think that’s enough wedding talk for now. I don’t want to give it all away all at once!

Bride or not: Have any tips or advice?