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The Wedding...is about to start...
ChadTower:
I blocked out most of the garbage that entailed planning our wedding. My mother in law went berzerk and kept calling the vendors and changing stuff on her own... and then throwing literal snotflying fits if someone mentioned it to her. That was just the beginning of the fighting.
quarterback:
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We did the exact same thing. My skin crawls when people tell me how much they pay for flowers as decorations which will be useless and dead before the honeymoon even starts
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You'd better get her to agree to that... a man's definition of "beautiful" has absolutely no correlation to how a woman views her wedding.
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Ain't that the truth. I got lucky in that regard. Even though my wife and I do not have the same taste in ALL forms of decoration, she had no problem with cutting out the thousands of dollars worth of flowers. Additionally, my wife thinks that big diamond jewelry is gawdy. We both cringe whenever one of those "a diamond is forever/if you really love her you have to show it with diamonds" type commercials comes on. Hell, the diamond business is a bigger scam than the wedding business, and that's saying something.
ChadTower:
My wife's diamond ring is an heirloom for her family - it was her grandmother's ring. Her grandmother had just recently passed and the family was trying to figure out what to do with it. I dodged a missle on that one. ;D
We got engaged in college, too... when a couple months' salary is still three figures because you're both on workstudy. :)
SithMaster:
So are any byoac members invited? Or did you want a classy event?
Just remember this is the wife's day, she's been planning this since she was 2, and anything you do can and will ruin everything.
Oh and dont forgot about having an arcade theme applied to everything.
shardian:
My wife (and I) kicked ass planning our wedding. We worked together to make as much stuff ourselves as we could, and insanely abused the local craft store's 40-50% off coupons. >:D
- Printed our own invitations using the 50 pack kits. Ours looked just as good as pro, but cost a fraction.
- Wife found an awesome dress on the $99 rack at David's Bridal...then had to spend $300 on overpriced wedding dress accessories.
- Did all of our own decorations with the exception of a candelabra stage set for the alter (Pew bows, alter stair runner, all wedding party bouquets and boutenirres with fake flowers, reception decorations, etc, etc). Rented it for like $150. The only real flowers in the whole place was Michelle's bridal bouquet, and my Boutenirre. The fake flowers worked AWESOME for the wedding party - and the last forever.
- Played our own music at the reception. I spent hours prearranging the music assortment, and set up a laptop and sound system myself.
-We arranged and planned all of our photo op's, then had Michelle's Step dad take pictures (he was an amateur photographer). That was probably a mistake. The cheap ass sonofabitch used old film that had been sitting in his fridge for years, and didn't even use the right speed of film. Why the ---fudgesicle--- would anyone do that for the only daughter they ever knew's most important day of her life!!!! Anyways, most of the pictures came out okay, but many we screwed because of his supreme cheapness. I spent many hours in Paint shop Pro cleaning, balancing, etc the pics to minimize the focus, grain, lighting and contrast issues caused by the film issue. In the end, all of my hard editing work paid off and our pics were pretty good... and the sonofabitch has the nerve to take full credit when anyone sees them. He's been taken to task on more than one of those occasions. Vent over. ;D
- We did buy a wedding cake, but it was from a girl I went to school with and she did awesome work. It was around $200, but looked and tasted AWESOME! I highly recommend you bite the bullet on the cake.
- after all of that hard work, Michelle's mom decided that since were responsible and saved so much money, she would splurge on us by having our reception at Wellingtons.
http://www.mywv.net/cities/poca/wellingtons/enter.htm
We loved that place, and they did absolutely everything for $2000 for IIRC, 120 people. Full tux clad staff (even cake cutter ;)), unlimited hors devour es (their hors devour es are awesome - way better than any sit down meal). I can't say enough about having a catered reception. That was simply awesome.
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