THE TRUTH ABOUT WEDDINGS: SAVE THE MONEY

When it was time for my husband and I to get married, we thought about doing a big wedding but we didn’t have any money and did not want to start our lives together in debt.  We ended up renting a beach house for a week and had a wedding on the beach and the reception at the house.  We had 50 guests who had a blast.  We did kabobs and grape leaves.  It was amazing.

I was just watching WE and they have a lot of wedding show with these women going crazy.  I will tell you now that the truth about wedding is:  everything you think is important about the wedding is not.  It will mean nothing.  The dress you spent thousands on will be boxed up somewhere in the attic, long forgotten and musty.  The cake you spent thousands on will be nice but could be no differnt then any plain old cake you could order from any bakery.

Your wedding will be over in a blur and a distant memory in minutes.  All you really have to do is to get people to show up, feed them something and you still get the same gifts.  Don’t fall for the wedding scam.  it is not your day in the spot light.  It is not your day to feel like a princess.  That is what pregnancy is for.  You get 6 months of a acting like a queen, eating anything at all wearing and comfortable loose clothes and you get to show off how BIG you have become.

Save the money.  Have a lower key wedding at a romantic location hopefully not that near your house and invite a whole bunch of people you know will not show up.  Most of the poeple won’t come and they will still feel obliged to get you a smaller gift. 

You will clean up and it won’t cost you as much.