I would kill to have a wedding planner right now. Someone to take care of everything. I'm so frustrated with all the work! We went to see a baker today. Actually what I thought was going to be THE baker. Their skills are amazing and I've been told by everyone they're super professional. Plus I emailed them a while ago asking about their average prices and they wrote me back with a lovely email and said $2.50. So I figured okay they're probably lying and it's around $3. NOT true. She's charging us $3.50 per slice (VERY expensive around here) and not even because of the design!
We want that flower petal design, and just for that she's charging us $80 which I think is totally acceptable. So the intricate design is costing $80 right? What the hell is in the cake that it has to cost $3.50 alone? Adding up everything else, we were looking at a $500 something dollar cake for 80 people. That costs more than my dress... not happening.
So I'm pretty upset and now I have to go through the tedious work of finding another baker. And the difficult thing about planning here is that very few things are online. Any vendor with a website is because they're very expensive. Meaning I have to work extra hard to find out where the reasonably priced but good vendors are. And then I start thinking what if after all I'll just have to find a different design that's more affordable... meaning I'll have to go through the looong process of finding another cake we BOTH like. Basically I brokedown (it's my week, what can I say.. not to mention there's a billion other to do's I have pending) and FI said he'd take care of the cake research. Though I'm not sure I can count on that.. that's what he said about the photog. He's very forgetful when it comes to wedding stuff. But whatever, we'll see. I'm just tired of doing everything alone with very little resources to help me out. Bahh! Why aren't wedding planners free?! lol