My fiancee and I live in Charlotte and are on a very very tight budget. I really don't want to have to spend no more than $3000 but if we go over a little and I mean a little then that's okay. We both have very big familys but we've decided to do 50/50 so a wedding of no more than 100 people. We really would like to get married in March. We're not quite sure how we're going to pay for it all other than taxes and saving up. We thought about taking out a loan and I know people are going to say why would you want to be in debt after you're married when you could get a loan for a house but we already have a house. It's my old house that my mom is letting us rent out until the mortgage goes down to what we're actually paying in rent so it'll be about 3 years for that and then the house is ours. We have 2 kids by the time we want to get married our oldest will be 2 and our youngest will be 10 months. My fiancee really wants our 2 year old to be flower girl. We have no idea where to have the reception, where to have the ceremony, get the cake, flowers, loan/no loan, etc. I'm not really the girly girl type but I will be for the right occasion lol. So any brides out there please give me some advice.