What? I have a budget!

Being a wedding planner, I understand that budget is everything, that looming number that you try your darndist to keep close to. You find a great deal somewhere, you cut something for another, you make compromises. The hardest part of planning a wedding is keeping to that number, and hardest part of being a planner planning her own wedding is making it look like a Cadillac, but on a Kia budget.

The one thing you don't get planning someone else's wedding is the family and spending your own money. This has been incredibly difficult for me to try and make the best wedding ever and keep to a budget that is already over inflated. Just a little insight, I am a Italian/Irish Catholic from New York. If you know what kind of people I am talking about, we will not be having a typical Nashville wedding with BBQ at a barn. So when I say over inflated budget, I mean too much for a simple person like me. My family feels I am being too simple and want things that are just not necissary, but cool.

So the planing process continues and has taken over my entire life. My checklist is a million pages long, but checking things off every day. Trying to remember, make it special to us.

Booked so far are the Hilton Garden Inn for the reception, the DJ including Karaoke, and my reception dress is being made.  Save the Dates are being processed and will go out soon. Joint bank account is open for us to contribute to each month. Wedding Website is done as well as the Cash Registry. (Come back later on this).

On the docket this week are, choose a photographer, cake and meet with a Deacon at the Catholic Diocese.

So here is the moral of the story, you need a budget. Try hard to stick to it and always remember things do cost more than you think. You think you can a get a photographer for $1500, think again. Cake for $350, nice try. Dinner and open bar for under $100 per person, think again. Even a backyard wedding costs a lot. Don't get stresses, just know that thousands of people get married ever year and you are just one bride, special to your family and friends, but not to vendors.

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