Okay, so here is the thing..This was an extremely difficult decision for us to make, I'm talking hours of crying here, but I think we figured out what we want to do.
What I have planned right now is a wedding with 200 people full on ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, the whole nine. This brings me to whopping total of more than $20,000 - $25,000. After many sleepless nights, I have come to the conclusion that I am not happy with this. Spending $20,000 on one day (yes, it's THE day - but still 1 day) is not sitting well with me at all. It could be because I grew extremely poor, I'm talking presents wrapped in tin foil some years. I grew up knowing the true value of a dollar. With that said, my dream has never been for a huge wedding with all the bells and whistles, my dream is to be married to the man of my dreams, buying our house, and completing our family. We can use that money to towards our real dreams, and I think it would make us much happier, less stressed, if we spent that on a house. Now back to those hours of crying. I realized I wasn't crying because of the idea of not having the big full on wedding, but I was crying because I felt horrible for everyone else. I mean are really doing this for us or everyone else? Well if I was crying for them, then obviously this whole thing has been about them.
So we've decided, we aren't canceling the wedding. What we would like to do, is to have a small ceremony of about 35 people at a beautiful park somewhere in Palm Beach County. And then throw a big party like reception afterwards for all of our family and friends.
I don't really want to change my date, so I'm on a super time crunch here. I can't even believe that I'm actually doing this yet. I'm talking over a year of planning, hours spent on the computer researching, finding my perfect venue, driving down to Miami every weekend to meet vendors. Am I really considering taking that year of hard work and shoving it? The answer is: yes. I am. Because it's what we truly want. We want to have the people we're closest to around us when we exchange our vows to one another and a big celebration full of jokes, laughter, dancing, and happiness, and I truly believe that our new plan will give us all that.
Okay, so now to the Help me please part. Before I spend every weekend scouring pbc for the most beautiful parks, I'd like to know if any of you have any recommendations. I've never been a beach person, so being on the water is not necessary to me. I'm a very green person, I love plants, flowers, and trees. I plan on keeping all my vendors except my caterer, as I've been experiencing some issues with them anyway. So any recs on affordable caterers or even restaurants that cater events would
be awesome.
So I need recs on:
location
food
Please help!! I'm over the crying and now on to Mission Maybe Impossible.
*So Fla Board February Siggy* My babe and I
