I woke up this morning in an exceptional mood, which has been a rarity for the 2 months. Why? Stress... I knew that the whole "getting married" business meant $$$ but to what degree I had no idea until I stepped into the wedding planning arena. Well, not so much the wedding planning as much as the local reception arena. As many know we are getting married in Jamaica (9 more months!) and were planning to have a reception here when we returned. Well, a thousand dollars here, a thousand dollars there, and I saw my budget becoming a distant memory and welcomed stress and worry into my life. Devin & I aren't big fans of credit, we have a pretty wise idea in my opinion, to pay for everything up front and without credit so that we don't start out our married life together in a tremendous amount of debt. But with that decision comes a great deal of strain.
Well this weekend, I sat down to look at our budget and I discovered that our budget had literally doubled with the add of the reception. So we spoke about it in depth and decided that until further notice the reception is on hold. After we get all the trip bought and done, and all the little extras we will readdress it. I was really bummed initially, but it didn't take long to feel like a burden was off of my shoulders and our engagement period is going to be what I had intended it to be in the first place, which was stress free and a happy carefree time for us.
In other news, Tiffany and I found the bridesmaid dresses and groomsmen attire. && my dress should be in within 1 month, I am SO excited - its a shame I will have to wait 8 more months to wear it though!!!! I've decided, especially with the ease of financial burdens of the reception, that I need to start considering getting some new clothes for the trip, and for all the little parties we will be having.
I got kind of lazy last week on our first week of the kettlebell challenge, awful I know, but I was extremely stressed out. This week I am attacking it with a fierceness.
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