Hi everyone! Well, FI popped the question June 18th...can I please say FAIRYTALE?!?! I love the ring he picked out for me. It's small but elegant...and totally me (and thank goodness he worked within a budget for the first time in his life!
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Now, on to my problem...I live in Memphis, TN. I grew up in Southern Georgia, about 8 hours away from here. Everyone I went to elementary school through college with lives in Georgia. Plus...FI's parents live in Florida (14 hours away). We're on a budget. I'm still in school (3rd degree in 8 years of college) and I work. FI works as well, but we can barely get by sometimes just paying bills. I want to have an outdoor country wedding and I thought that if we got married in Georgia, I would have no problem with it. Plus I wanted all my friends to be there on my big day. However, after taking some time to plan out some logistics, I'm seeing that it is going to be too stressful and cost too much money to have the wedding there.
Today I figured out that, no matter how much I don't want to, I am probably going to have to have the wedding here in TN. I plan on doing the "catering" myself (along with family of course) and, depending on how my test cake turns out, I might do my own wedding cake. Both of these things would be hard to do with a destination wedding (the term destination is used loosely here). But this would mean I would give up my dream of having all my friends at my wedding as I am sure not many of them would be able to make it. Should I let go and just do it here?