I suppose we could have pulled this off if we were some
other couple in some other time, place and phase of life. But the fact is,
we're older than a lot of newlyweds (I'm 40, he's 38) and we have no delusions
of grandeur. Both of us are self employed business owners just trying to meet
mortgage and other expenses each month. We already have a son together who had
just turned 2 at the time.
In other words: our life is busy and full. So an extremely
frugal, "do it all ourselves" wedding just wasn't in the cards for
us. Nor was a "soup to nuts" fairy tale wedding for a glamorous, June
bride. We didn't expect our parents to foot the bill for our wedding, and fully
planned to fund the entire affair ourselves. That said...
What we ended up with:
November nuptials, held at the Somerville Elks Club, on a
Saturday at noon, with a local band that we know and love – The Willie Lynch
Band. The band was our gift to ourselves, and the one thing that we didn't want
to compromise price on, but everything else was negotiable. We had a GREAT
time, and received many compliments from our guests, on everything from the priest
to the venue to the food to the music.
Unlike so many other NJ brides for whom the wedding day is
the be-all, end-all of occasions, I really set to the task of wedding planning
with a practical and frugal outlook. You can think of your wedding as a princess-bride's
dream come true... or you can think of it as I did: 5 hours that will slip by
in a heartbeat – and you want to make those 5 hours as stress-free and enjoyable
as possible. You also want to avoid spending time and money on things that,
ultimately, no one is going to care about or remember anyway!
If this is not your NJ wedding philosphy, that's cool... there
are plenty other wedding blogs out there which will be more to your taste. I'm
a simple girl with simple needs. So in this blog, I'm going to show you ways to
majorly trim expenses and get your precious time back, while still making your
wedding tasteful and fun.
If you have your own ideas about this, please feel free to
share them in the comments area!
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