Making It Happen

It's time to get the ball rolling on my wedding blogging.

I realize that it appears as if Pete and I have not done anything wedding-planning-related over the past couple months. I have pretty much only been writing about the crappiness of this summer, and while we have been preoccupied with money issues, summer school, sickness and hives, we actually have gotten some stuff done for this whole wedding thing.

Most importantly, we planned and budgeted and booked(!!!) our little hearts out.

Let's backtrack: In April, we booked our ceremony location. It was very important to us that we get married at the Wynn...so we booked it without much of a plan (or budget) for the rest of the wedding.

By May, we had established a rough budget based upon many different factors, and we started creating a plan to fit that budget. We had price quotes and menus and all that in the works.

Then June rolled around. I really don't want to get into the details, so I will just state the fact that we lost a lot. of. money. from the wedding budget. Now, just to clarify, one of the reasons we chose Vegas was because we were already on such a teeny-tiny budget and our limited funds would not afford a traditional wedding in our hometowns. So when you take an already tiny budget and smash it with a sledgehammer...things get tricky. There were several moments when we felt we may have had to nix the entire wedding altogether.

But we pushed through and got creative. I scoured websites and blogs and message boards. I combed through excel spreadsheets like a madwoman. And then, thank goodness, we were blessed with some help from family and an awesome Maid of Honor who helped get things going. :) We had to sacrifice a lot of the original plans, but we eventually came up with a plan that we knew would work, and we went with it. So this is what we did:

We booked the caterer.

(Btw we will not at all be having watermelon at our reception, but its the only picture I could find from our caterer. Image found here.)

My girls and I booked the fabulous hair and makeup guys at Glamsquad.

We nailed down the very minimal floral plan with Wynn.

(inspiration image from theknot.com)

We booked the awesome photographer for our Strip Photo Tour.

If you feel so inclined, visit this link to view one of my favorite pics from his gallery:

http://wilson702.com/index2.php#/gallery2/1/

We even booked a little surprise thing that's very hush-hush.

And then we sealed the deal by getting the suite for the reception booked.

(image)

Ah yes, we now have a somewhat-complete plan...and I am blissfully out of wedding-budget-freak-out-land. We are still working on some additional details, but at least we have the biggest stuff booked and I've gotta say it's a really nice feeling knowing it's all falling into place, even if it is with an itty-bitty amount of money and dramatically-altered plans. The important thing is that we are getting married (!!!) in a place that means the world to us, with the people we love around us, and we are going to have a hell of a time. <3

Next up...let's save the date.