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The Wedding Thread!
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"Come on, More Pictures!" -- LOL!!
Here is Ken and I on our wedding day.
This is our very favorite picture in the album
Cathi - what a great picture! and your flowers...wow!!!!
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Awww- I am trying to resist the urge to throw rice at my monitor! Beautiful pics!
Here is one more of our wedding pictures. Saying our vows.
I love wedding pics! These are all great.
Kim you're so cute
*sigh* I will probly be eloping too LMAO.. no
I still want to wear a beautiful white gown though.
*sigh* I will probly be eloping too LMAO.. no
Sicy, there are ways to get married on a tight budget. We did it! You know, the end result is the same....you still end up married and that's what counts.
(I'll post pics tomorrow....don't have any one the home computer.)
(I'll post pics tomorrow....don't have any one the home computer.)
Sicy, you can have a really nice wedding at a low cost. All of our wedding was under $10,000 this included the photographer and caterier also.
we got married at the court house. So no pics!! We did have a HUGE reception with over 200 people about two weeks later
The reception is what is expensive not the wedding
OMG! We did our wedding with a budget of $2500! That didn't include the dress (which I found on a serious sale for $250), and the album (which we are still paying off! But they did let us make arrangements for monthly payments
). I think that pretty much covered everything else, though, give or take $500.
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Sicy, there are ways to get married on a tight budget. We did it! You know, the end result is the same....you still end up married and that's what counts.
$10,000 is still a lot for 2 people that live paycheck to paycheck
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First marriage we eloped to Vegas got married barefoot and went to Lake Mead on honeymoon! LMAO! Long live the 70's! But we were happy back then and it suited us at the time.
I know it's been almost 8 years, but we were married for a lot less than $10,000...about half in fact. We chose not to get married in a church, and rented the most incredible building (lovely grounds) with two stone fireplaces, full kitchen and an area for seating folks, a changing area, and a dance area...for under $400...it was a lodge at one of our local parks.Originally posted by Sicycat
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$10,000 is still a lot for 2 people that live paycheck to paycheck
We designed and printed our own wedding programs, I found a great and inexpensive place to buy invitations that I loved. We were lucky, my parents did step in to help, but gosh..I found a wonderful seamstress who designed my dress and kept the final expense (despite lots of lovely lace and lace appliques) under $1,000. We did a lot of choice by referrals, using the network of family and friends. Found a caterer that was a side business of a small local restaurant..very reasonable.
So much can be done to cut expenses, just takes deciding what is most important to you, networking and research <G>.
If you know it's really important to you to have a wedding dress, no matter how small you wish to keep things, listen to your heart and do it!
No! Too much trouble.. lol. been there.
I'm still in shock over the $10,000 wedding! I've been married twice and both weddings together didn't add up to even half of that!
I got the lucky end of the stick, we married in Vegas, since we were living there at the time in the court house, funny story btw, anyway, a year later after moving back to our hometown, his close friends threw us a surprise wedding reception!!! Really super sweet because I didn't know any of these people, just barely met them and I'm the only freaking american there so it was a bit uncomfortable but very sweet nonetheless because they paid for the food and the decorations, etc. I still cry about when I think about their generosity!
Anyway, my pics of those days are in the garage and we don't have the scanner hooked up yet, so I'll post mine in a few days or so.
Lake Meade!!!! Hissy I love that place, we used to go there every chance we could get and then we would go the other direction and go to the mountains Mt. Charles? or something like that where there was snow!!!!! Even at night during the moonlight, it's absolutely beautiful, especially when heading back to LV and seeing all the lights in the middle of the freaking desert was really amazing, I still get chills and tingles thinking about that place, many memories for us, mostly good with the bad.
Everyone's pictures are sooo pretty, and Sicy, I don't know, we did it pretty cheap, married in the court paid I think $35 dollars, and I didn't wear anything fancy at all nor did he. We were both pretty damn nervous!!
Anyway, we had eloped a month earlier and then decided to marry officially the following month. But we were so nervous, we both smoked heavily at the time, we're in the court house and hardly looked at each other or spoke. We stood pretty far apart from each other. There were other couples that were being lovey dovey with each other, smooching and holding hands, but we were standing apart. When it was our turn, the lady asks us 'umm, are ya getting married?' with this look in her eye. I said 'yes we are' and she shook her head a little and said 'okay, then lets begin with the information', etc. Anyway, we got out of the courthouse and started walking back to our vehicle, we didn't speak, I broke the ice by saying 'well that's that, lets have a cigarette to celebrate'. Then we relaxed. We still laugh about it till this day!!!
We have thought of doing another one, but to us, we've always been married to each other from the first day we met, so no sense in spending money just to re-iterate our love for each other. Okay, now I'm teary eyed. I've noticed I'm a lot more talkative at night!!!
Lake Meade!!!! Hissy I love that place, we used to go there every chance we could get and then we would go the other direction and go to the mountains Mt. Charles? or something like that where there was snow!!!!! Even at night during the moonlight, it's absolutely beautiful, especially when heading back to LV and seeing all the lights in the middle of the freaking desert was really amazing, I still get chills and tingles thinking about that place, many memories for us, mostly good with the bad.
Everyone's pictures are sooo pretty, and Sicy, I don't know, we did it pretty cheap, married in the court paid I think $35 dollars, and I didn't wear anything fancy at all nor did he. We were both pretty damn nervous!!
I think I remember hearing that the average wedding costs something like $20,000 anymore. I couldn't beleive it! Like I said, 2 1/2 years ago, we had a very nice wedding for a total of $2500-$3000, and if you figure MINE into it, then someone had to be spending like $50,000 on ONE DAY! OK, Jennifer and Brad (Pitt) don't count as far as costs are concerned.
Sicy, you would be surprised how much of a wedding you can do yourself with a bit of creativity. We made the bouquets ourselves (finishing at 1:00 the morning of the wedding!), and they looked great. Made the decorations for the church, made the food trays for the reception (very informal reception that we had in our apartment...cold cuts and a keg of beer! It was a blast!!!), printed the invitations myself using storebought wedding invites that cost probably 10% of having them done professionally and they looked just as good. All that leaves room for the stuff most people can't do themselves....the dress, the tux, cake and photography.
Sicy, you would be surprised how much of a wedding you can do yourself with a bit of creativity. We made the bouquets ourselves (finishing at 1:00 the morning of the wedding!), and they looked great. Made the decorations for the church, made the food trays for the reception (very informal reception that we had in our apartment...cold cuts and a keg of beer! It was a blast!!!), printed the invitations myself using storebought wedding invites that cost probably 10% of having them done professionally and they looked just as good. All that leaves room for the stuff most people can't do themselves....the dress, the tux, cake and photography.
Ok - I will share one of my wedding pics - this is me and my new hubby Nick - we got married last December (2002) in Thredbo which is in the Australian Snowy Mountains - being summer here it was just beuatiful!!
Siccy - we thought long and hard about our wedding and how much it would cost etc. We decided to go with immediate family only (both our parents, my bro and his g/f, Nick's bro his wife and their 2 kiddies) 12 people including us in total. We all went away for the weekend - had a fab time and didn't spend much money - mostly just the money for accom and the dinner after the ceremony. Nick already owned a tux and I wore my mum's dress which we had altered to make it look less 60's...
I don't know if you could do something similar but it was our compromise between me (I wanted to elope and have a private thing with just the two of us) and what the families wanted (a big wedding with everyone).
I will post another in a subsequent post as I don't know how to post 2 pics at once...
Siccy - we thought long and hard about our wedding and how much it would cost etc. We decided to go with immediate family only (both our parents, my bro and his g/f, Nick's bro his wife and their 2 kiddies) 12 people including us in total. We all went away for the weekend - had a fab time and didn't spend much money - mostly just the money for accom and the dinner after the ceremony. Nick already owned a tux and I wore my mum's dress which we had altered to make it look less 60's...
I don't know if you could do something similar but it was our compromise between me (I wanted to elope and have a private thing with just the two of us) and what the families wanted (a big wedding with everyone).
I will post another in a subsequent post as I don't know how to post 2 pics at once...
