Just wondering if any of your guys are going through stages of panic about your upcoming weddings? Mostly I am just completely overwhelmed at how quickly all of the costs add up, it is like we are bleeding out and there is no end in sight? Both of our parents are being incredibly generous, but anytime things come up that we want to cover ourselves it is hard to figure out how to make things work. Really this wedding could not come at a worse time for us financially, I'm in my 5th year of professional school and my FI is trying to recover from 13 mo. of being unemployed (luckily he found a great job in June, but still a lot to make up for). I think we probably just need to have additional conversations with our parents regarding the budget, I just had hoped we'd be able to be more self-sufficient and contribute more to it. In the end we probably should have waited another year, I just don't think we realized everything that was involved until quite a few things had already been booked.
I'm going to try and do some moonlighting in my field to earn some extra cash, but it will likely take a month or two to get things rolling on that if I can find work. It just makes it hard to plan and put down deposits on vendors. Sorry for this long vent, I'm just bummed out at how such an amazing life milestone can become such an emotional/sobering undertaking! Probably also not helping that is a super depressing grey day and I have PMS...
