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<\/a><\/p>\nFor all of you out there who have already gone through this….what did you do to cut costs? Any catering recommendations you have had good experiences with for an outdoor wedding? I am pretty set on our caterer as they are very reasonable, but there is still time to be open to new ideas \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Please share!<\/p>\n
Oh and did I mention I am going to try on wedding dresses this weekend?! OH MY GOD AHFASJKFHASJKFHASKFJHASJKFH.\u00a0 That means this is really happening huh?\u00a0 Snap.<\/p>\n
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So it turns out Shain and I have been engaged for 7 months today, what the HECK!? Where did the time go??\u00a0 I don’t know how you rock-star brides out there planned a wedding in a few short months because I have been doing nothing but dragging my feet. On top of that I have people saying to me, but Jill don’t you want your wedding to be unique?\u00a0 Don’t you want it to be different?\u00a0 It HAS to be perfect, you know.\u00a0 It is the most important day of your life!\u00a0 Everyone has to remember it! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.\u00a0 That is how I feel about that.\u00a0 Perfect Shmerfect.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As long as everyone is eating, drinking and dancing that is all we care about.\u00a0 End of story. I just want to marry Shain.\u00a0 I want my close friends and family to be there and have fun. \u00a0 And I don’t want it to cost a million dollars.\u00a0 Is that so much to ask? So in all seriousness, here is where I am at right now.\u00a0 We have the place, which is basically a big beautiful backyard that we get full reign of.\u00a0 We will be getting married under a big oak tree and putting up a tent for the reception\/dancing\/dinner.\u00a0 My biggest item of stress right now is our catering menu. \u00a0 We are not going crazy and spending a lot of money on decorations, photography, flowers etc.\u00a0 The majority of our budget (seriously like 95%)\u00a0 is going to food and drinks, yet the numbers are quite frankly still putting me in shock. \u00a0 Even with a bunch of corners we are cutting, it is still insanely expensive.\u00a0 I would love nothing more to tell you that I will plan a decent size wedding\u00a0 for under 10 grand, I am fighting like hell to make that happen but let me tell you it is NOT easy. Managed to scoop up 60 mason Jars at a garage sale for 20 bucks. Woot! Centerpieces, check. When we originally did our guest list, there were close to 400 people on it.\u00a0 Not kidding.\u00a0 I wish could tell you that some of these people I could care less to have at our wedding or are friends\/family I don’t talk to often and can easily cut off the list, but that is not the case.\u00a0 I have a really big family with lots of close family friends, church friends, etc.\u00a0 Yes, some are cousins I only see once a year but it does not make them any less important to me.\u00a0 I want all of them there, honest to goodness.\u00a0 But we just can’t.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know any other way to make this wedding\u00a0 more reasonable than cutting down the guest list.\u00a0 I just hope people are not upset with me,\u00a0 I hope they understand.\u00a0 Right now we are at almost 300 people which still makes me nauseous. For all of you out there who have already gone through this….what did you do to cut costs? Any catering recommendations you have had good experiences with for an outdoor wedding? I am pretty set on our caterer as they are very reasonable, but there is still time to be open to new ideas \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Please share! Oh and did I mention I am going to try on wedding dresses this weekend?! OH MY GOD AHFASJKFHASJKFHASKFJHASJKFH.\u00a0 That means this is really happening huh?\u00a0 Snap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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