How long are invites going to take? I'd love to take a look at this; my recent wedding has simply wiped me out. I'm not sure what to do, and having a better idea or what needs to be done would be a real boon.
I see lots of people spend way too much money on their marriage (1 day...) only to be in trouble for a year or more afterwards, which, surprise, puts a huge stress on their marriage.
There is some kind of peer-pressure going on there that makes people spend way more than is smart and I'd like to understand better how that happens.
It's small things that rack up. It's small things that don't get easily factored into budgets: flowers for the groomsmen, that case of soda you forgot, lighting for the venue.
All of the predictable stuff like catering, venue hire etc. was absorbed by our (wonderful) parents. Day to day stuff was me. Now I need to figure out what to do.
It's easy to talk about not going into debt when you have a decent job. I never had a problem when I was working. Now I'm a student on what amounts to subsistence wages in CA. That's when it gets tricky.