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Brilliant_Rock
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Weddings are so unbelievably expensive.
I''m not planning anything yet (my FI and I just got engaged 2 months ago and I am studying for the bar exam, so I''m not ready to start that yet), but one of my closest childhood friends who lives in the area I will be getting married is starting to look at venues, and from what she and her mother have discovered, $40,000 is about the minimum if you want to get married anytime besides January or February (which would scare me to no end, considering many of the people I would want at my wedding would be coming in from various out-of-town locales, and living in the Northeast typically means snow in January-February).
I don''t have ANYTHING LIKE that kind of money...and although I know a few wealthy families, I really don''t understand how, in this economy, anyone of reasonable means could afford that kind of thing.
I mean, I know there are ways to stretch a budget...but when the venue itself costs $20,000-$25,000 by itself, I just don''t know how people do it.
I know a lot of you are able to have beautiful weddings with limited budgets. I am SO not crafty or creative, so I worry about myself.
::sigh:: No point to this post really. Just a little shellshocked.
I''m not planning anything yet (my FI and I just got engaged 2 months ago and I am studying for the bar exam, so I''m not ready to start that yet), but one of my closest childhood friends who lives in the area I will be getting married is starting to look at venues, and from what she and her mother have discovered, $40,000 is about the minimum if you want to get married anytime besides January or February (which would scare me to no end, considering many of the people I would want at my wedding would be coming in from various out-of-town locales, and living in the Northeast typically means snow in January-February).
I don''t have ANYTHING LIKE that kind of money...and although I know a few wealthy families, I really don''t understand how, in this economy, anyone of reasonable means could afford that kind of thing.
I mean, I know there are ways to stretch a budget...but when the venue itself costs $20,000-$25,000 by itself, I just don''t know how people do it.
I know a lot of you are able to have beautiful weddings with limited budgets. I am SO not crafty or creative, so I worry about myself.
::sigh:: No point to this post really. Just a little shellshocked.