Do you know what’s crazier than planning one wedding? Planning two! And buying a house! And working! Sure, why not? Modern liberated women and all that.
We are indeed planning two weddings. Last week, my fellow Real Bride Blogger said that she was not happy about cutting her guest list. And I know how she feels. Jonathon and I started with a wish list of all the people we would love to invite to the wedding and came up with approximately 400 people. (Big families, lots of friends.) But with our $8,000 budget (yes I said it and I’ll break it all down for you soon), we couldn’t afford to have anything else if we came up with this many people to feed. We would spend $8,000 of food?! What about invitations, a dress, a tux, you know places to sit?
So, we decided to carefully decide on 60 of our nearest and dearest friends and family. It was hard, but we did it. And we started planning an eco-friendlier, lush, budget friendly wedding. And then, we remembered all those people who got left out and felt a pang of regret. But modern liberated women can have everything they want! Right? Well, yes with sacrifice.
We opted to throw a vow renewal on New Years Day (2 weeks post wedding). Now, it’s super informal at Mr. J’s family church (undecorated), with a potluck Southern Sunday after church style meal that our friends, family, and we cook for. The budget for that? $50 church fee. The guest list? 400.
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Wow that is a great alternative to fix the problem!! For our November 15th wedding we will only have 85 guests and we were already feeling bad for all those ones that would be left out. Great thought!!