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Yup.  That's my inspiration. 

The Hunt for the Perfect Venue

The Groom and I had an idea of what we were looking for... we just didn't know where to find it.  Our venue search consisted of many hours of online research and two days of tours.  It was funn! 

Venue #1 was 2 miles up a dirt road.  Trees are the ceremony background, tent is dinner and grass is the dancefloor.  Grass + dancefloor does NOT = stillettos. 

SOG and FOG were exhausted after Day 1!

Venue #2 ceremony site.  Fake grass... classy!

Venue #3...

GORGEOUS!

Venue #4...

Yeah... we like it too :)

August 28, 2011

Bring your dancin' shoes!

A Daytime Affair?

During my hunt for the perfect venue, it has been a topic of discussion as to whether or not the wedding has to be in the evening.  My immediate reaction is, "Well, of course it has to be in the evening."  MOB thinks otherwise.  Several of the venues that we've considered do have discounted rates for morning or afternoon ceremony and reception.  However, the venues that only have space for one wedding per day do not offer the earlier-in-the-day discount.  When an earlier event was suggested to the Groom, he suddenly lost all of his big boy words and out strung words such as "dumb" and "doesn't make sense."  When I asked why he felt so strongly, his simple reply is that he just wouldn't show up.  Why does our generation feel so strongly about weddings being in the evening?  Is it a generational thing?  Have you been to a wedding during the daytime?  Was it fun?  Have weddings lost the feeling that they once suggested - love, two people vowing to spend the rest of their lives together - and turned into straight-up parties?  If so, it's a sad day...

No, we are not truly considering a daytime affair but if we were, would you talk about us behind our back?!

On a lighter note, I think we may have found the place.  I'll keep you guessing and post more in the coming week.  I have to go to bed now so I can be ready for THE MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT tomorrow night!!  Whoohooo!!

Can Pugsley be in the wedding if he wears a bow-tie?

The Tide Has Turned

Today's day can be written about in three parts. For your ease, I shall refer to the aforementioned parts as ceremony, cocktail and reception.

Ceremony: After my extremely productive Monday evening in which I started a blog and did a lot of wedding venue research, I anxiously wait for all of the responses to my inquiries. They slowly stream in... and I slowly read through them... and then slowly email the fiance to say... "welp, check that one off the list." I'm still in shock over some of the site fees that some of these places charge! Tell me, again, exactly why you're charging $3,000 for... ummm... ?

Ceremony: Late this afternoon I heard back from a prospective venue and their numbers were the closest I've seen to my goal thusfar! YESS!! I put my negotiating hat on and start planning out how I'm going to get this poor lady to knock $2-3k off her estimate. Until I realized that the place wasn't that cool. BUT - I can bring my own cookies for dessert!!

Reception: Enter phone call from MOB (Mother of the Bride, clearly). MOB has decided that she can help me find the perfect venue within my budget and has spent the last few days doing some research for me. Then, a flash of lightning strikes her from the sky and she finds herself on the website for an absolutely stunning seriously amazing place. That just happens to host weddings. That are not in my budget. What is an MOB to do? This is when G-d speaks through the lightning and tells MOB that I am her only daughter and maybe the budget should be bumped up a bit.

Conclusion: I'm not exactly sure where this budget wedding of mine is heading - might be out of the budget category - but either way I'm still excited and still planning and still ready to negotiate. And, hopefully, will still find a way to have some cookies :)

I'm a Blogger

Welcome to my blog! I have no idea why today is the day that I decided to write a blog but hey, why not? I mean, it's not like I work full-time, have a dog to take care of, am getting ready to move, trying to plan a wedding all while maintaining a social life... yeah, let's write a blog. Maybe it's because sometimes I like to think that someone has inserted a microphone into my brain and enjoys listening to my thoughts. C'mon, I know you've thought that too. No? Oh.

Anyway, I'm planning a wedding. A wedding on a budget. A budget wedding. A low-cost affair. Who says it can't still be classy and fun? Everyone, apparently. I'm not one to back down from a challenge so let's be honest: the motive behind this blog is to prove to people that a budget wedding doesn't have to scream "budget" when the guests arrive. Nice venues can still be booked, invitations can still be pretty, food can still be good... right? I hope so. And maybe, if I'm really, really lucky, I'll find a place that will let me bring my own cookies for dessert [cue music and a full-screen pop-out of the name of the blog].

Let the journey begin!