So I'm having a great time planning our wedding. We decided to splurge a bit on our venue, the Waterside Inn, because we really wanted to have the wedding in Port Credit and we love the look of the place (not to mention the fact that the wedding will be catered by their first-class restaurant). Because of that, we're trying to save in other places.
I found a great dress at Elizabeth Stuart Discount Bridal in Mississauga for $500. We're planning to make our own invitations and we're exploring various options for our flowers. One of my lovely bridesmaids has suggested making the bouquets (and thankfully all the girls are skilled, so we could pull that off), another has various suppliers she uses in her event planning career, so she's exploring those options, and Scott and I are also getting a quote from Judith Nyman Secondary School, a school in our board that has an amazing floral program. In addition to these details, we've also come up with some special touches, which I won't share here...
The wedding is nine months away, which feels like such a long time, but it's really so close. I have to say though, I'm super excited.
I'm also super excited about getting our own place (by own place I mean buying a home, because we already share our cozy basement apartment). We're going to wait until after the wedding to make a purchase because we have to use our savings to pay for the wedding up front. Meanwhile, we've put ourselves on a tight budget (sort of). If we weren't such social animals, it'd be a heck of a lot easier to save.
All-in-all, life is good. I'm full of joy... it's possible the mild winter has something to do with my general cheeriness :)
