Sticker Shock
Photographer, $2,500-$4,000
Cake $600, plus $1.50 each slice to cut the cake
Invitations for 150: $2,500
and the kicker….$20.00 MORE a head for alcohol!!!! are you kidding me??
Right now we have 180 on the guest list… we have to cut it down… I can live without a cake, just have a friend take some pictures, and try to make my own invitations (but yet that can still get costly). My fam and his fam don’t drink, so we are trying to figure out what to do…justin said he can hook us up with wine, but i’m not sure if we can do that… or just have a cash bar….decisions decisions….
Looks like Saginaw will be the location since it’ll be convienient….
Europe has been a bust as we have taken all day today (sunday) to research getting married…its just going to be too much of a headache… you get married by someone who doesn’t speak English, adn there are a lot of rules there as well…. so its back to New Zealand….
My aunt has been cooresponding with me and trying to get us to Aussie instead….. Steve’s parents are in if we go there, so we might just end up doing that since he also has family there and that way I’d have at least my mom’s brother and sister in law there to represent me :)… and my aunt is so completely geeked about it all, its kinda nice to have a standin mom anyway!!!
So girls…. what are you rooting for? NZ or Down Under?
Here are the links we found:
http://www.theweddingcompany.co.nz/nz-wedding-gallery/justine-geoffrey/01.html
http://www.australianwedding.com/cairns-rainforest
(scroll all the way down)
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