It's been a while since I last posted and a comment on the blog (thank you!!) brought it back to my attention. I must have been insane to think I could do all of those goals WHILE planning a wedding! I totally skipped the goal for January and we're already this far into February and I haven't been working on this one either. I am, however, making huge strides in the wedding plans!
I decided that I was going to make my own stationary to try to save money. I made save the date magnets which turned out to be crazy easy (buy magnetic sheets, print your image, stick to the magnet, throw on a few layers of mod podge and you're done!) and I was planning on making my own invitations too but since I didn't want to deal with all that cutting and printing on thick paper I came up with my own design and ordered 60 of them from vistaprint. It's still considerably cheaper than traditional wedding invites. Those things are expensive! I've created another design for the RSVP cards and I may print them the same way.
Apparently David's Bridal does photography as well and when I heard that I could get an 8 hour package at a price comparable to other professional photographers and I could put it on my newly acquired David's Bridal credit card I nearly jumped at the opportunity. I did put a deposit down to hold the date and I've been on a small rollercoaster of feelings about it. The 4 albums I was shown as examples were basically terrible. They were plain and boring and looked like anybody could have picked up a digital camera and took photos to add to the albums. It really freaked me out so I looked through all of the albums that were not password protected and found a photographer I liked. ONE. Scary. I'm really hoping that when the time comes for them to assign a photographer to me they take into consideration the fact that I've basically screamed for a creative photographer :)
There was a bridal expo at the fairgrounds recently and I was introduced to an awesome caterer and baker. I went for a tasting with the baker and ended up loving the sample she brought and we put a deposit on a cake right then! We're going to have a 3 tier cake, the bottom and top will be lemon cake with a strawberry lemonade filling and the middle layer will be french vanilla cake with a banana cream filling. I know, I know, they don't go together but I love them both equally haha.
I still haven't nailed down a budget. My goal was $5000 but I think we might be spending closer to $7500 after all the stuff I've put on credit! All I'm hoping for is to get the things we care about...it doesn't all have to be perfect.
I've been thinking about honeymoons lately and I'm not even sure we can afford to take one immediately after the wedding. I've been bombarded with photos of tropical islands and romantic cities and the travel bug bit me HARD. So hard, that I'm not sure I'd be satisfied taking a short two night honeymoon somewhere close. I think I'll need to talk to our AAA travel agent! I'm itching to go to Belize and see some ancient ruins and be creeped out!
Anyway, I don't want to let the blog die! I'll work on posting at least once a week at the risk of the posts not being as useful as I hope. I'll also take a bunch of pictures of the stuff I've done so far!
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