What's a Budget Wedding Anyway?
What's a Budget Wedding Anyway?
What's a Budget Wedding Anyway?
I'm kind of a jealous person, it's true, and this is most true in the realm of finances. Everyone wishes they always had more money than they haveThe chairs at our place are also hideous. I worried about it for like ten minutes, and then decided not to care, because there are much more important ways to spend our money. People will be sitting on them, not staring at them.after all, isn't that the point of life? (That's a joke peoplechillax.) I really do know what it's like to not have money and be broke. Like, digging-through-the-car-for-change-to-find-enough-money-to-get-to-your-unpaid-internship kind of broke. Or, growing-up-always-wearing-your-older-brother's-hand-me-downs, living-in-a-trailer, not-having-transportation kind of broke.
Poor upbringing + working hard myself to pay for school and start a real career + expensive tastes x label whore tendencies = screwed when it comes tocheap wedding invatationsplanning.
Now we are lucky enough that both sides of our family are contributing some financially, and Mr. Magic and I are trying to save and put in some money too. But weddings are ridiculously expensive and have about 4,597,326 hidden costs. OK, maybe not so hidden, but not always things you'd think about beforehand.
Like, chairs. We've got 100 chairs included in our venue rental. They are the ugliest chairs around. So if I'm gonna use these chairs, I need chair covers. Those are $2.50 minimum x 100 chairs = $250. But I'll need to rent 50 more chairs for the reception (and chair covers for those) and 150 chairs for the ceremony. I mean, all this adds up to like $1500* just for friggin' chairs.
*Note: I actually did not do the math because I feel kind of nauseous from all this money talk, and I can't do math when I'm sick.
Also, I just read a blog post where someone said their "budget" wedding costs $25,000. I mean, yes, I'm sure she has a budget for her $25K wedding, but that is not a "BUDGET wedding." At least, it's not in my judge-y little book.
I'm being a grump, I know. I should focus on the BIG PICTURE and not compare my wedding/life/financial means to others', even if that is the American way.
I try so very hard not to get jealous, but when you are paying for it pretty much entirely yourselves, it is so hard not to! It's difficult for me to bite my tongue when people who are not paying for ANY of it themselves complain about not having enough money or things being soooo expensive. Yes, weddings are expensive, especially when you are paying for it yourself!
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