Under budget! What would you do?

BrandNewJ · January 2015

@MagicInk‌ I picked ice luge too!

I really wanted one, but it a a no-go. I may be biased though as our wedding is mostly Russians who actually do drink vodka like water, and they'd love it!

abl13 · January 2015

Photo booth! Ours came with a CD of all the photos so I made it into a book on Shutterfly. It is amazing and much different from our book of pro photos :-)

themosthappy91 · January 2015

TBH I don't understand how some of the people who are so adamant on here about savings even justified having weddings at all? Like no judgment but it just seems so arbitrary to think it's acceptable to spend $800 on a dress, or a party, or ANYTHING wedding related besides the actual marriage license I guess, but then to say that this $800 (or was it $900?), which has been responsibly set aside and already allocated towards wedding stuff already, really should go into savings.

Here's the thing: people have the right to spend their extra money how they want to a large extent. I don't get the offense taken over someone saying in the grand scheme of their budget that kind of money would be better spent in their eyes paying for a fun extra rather than saving every dime of it. I sure know if I were in OP's situation I would be spending that money upgrading to something to make the day extra fun and special for me and my loved ones, because I don't have pressing need of it for anything else in my life since it's already been "budgeted" to wedding stuff anyway. Sorry if my privilege is showing or whatever but I don't feel bad saying that to me I don't need $800 enough for anything else that it would stop me from spending it on a fun upgrade. I vote photobooth (ours was SO much fun for everyone) or BM services.

ashley8918 · January 2015

themosthappy91 said:

TBH I don't understand how some of the people who are so adamant on here about savings even justified having weddings at all? Like no judgment but it just seems so arbitrary to think it's acceptable to spend $800 on a dress, or a party, or ANYTHING wedding related besides the actual marriage license I guess, but then to say that this $800 (or was it $900?), which has been responsibly set aside and already allocated towards wedding stuff already, really should go into savings.

Here's the thing: people have the right to spend their extra money how they want to a large extent. I don't get the offense taken over someone saying in the grand scheme of their budget that kind of money would be better spent in their eyes paying for a fun extra rather than saving every dime of it. I sure know if I were in OP's situation I would be spending that money upgrading to something to make the day extra fun and special for me and my loved ones, because I don't have pressing need of it for anything else in my life since it's already been "budgeted" to wedding stuff anyway. Sorry if my privilege is showing or whatever but I don't feel bad saying that to me I don't need $800 enough for anything else that it would stop me from spending it on a fun upgrade. I vote photobooth (ours was SO much fun for everyone) or BM services.

Putting it into savings was a suggestion, not a demand. There was no judgement towards the OP for not doing so, either. The question was what would YOU do. I would put it into savings.

Wegl13 · January 2015

I think I would spend it on the honeymoon. But then we couldn't afford (time or money) a honeymoon immediately after our wedding and I was SO JEALOUS of my husbands cousin that got married the weekend after us and went on a cruise. The thing about spending it on a honeymoon is that you don't have to "book" extra fun things until you are actually there, which means if something comes up between now and then, you haven't already committed the money elsewhere. And it's always fun to have a little extra splurge money on a vacation- you will inevitably be like "omg honey we can swim with dolphins! We should swim with dolphins!" Or whatever. I can't really speak to a lot of the other things as they wouldn't have made a lot of sense in our very low key wedding.

hellohkb · January 2015

I thought your wedding had a minimum you must spend, like mine does. In that case, I'd roll it over to your honeymoon or throw it into an emergency wedding fund (because apparently shit can pop up unexpectedly).

larrygaga · January 2015

themosthappy91 said:

TBH I don't understand how some of the people who are so adamant on here about savings even justified having weddings at all? Like no judgment but it just seems so arbitrary to think it's acceptable to spend $800 on a dress, or a party, or ANYTHING wedding related besides the actual marriage license I guess, but then to say that this $800 (or was it $900?), which has been responsibly set aside and already allocated towards wedding stuff already, really should go into savings.

Here's the thing: people have the right to spend their extra money how they want to a large extent. I don't get the offense taken over someone saying in the grand scheme of their budget that kind of money would be better spent in their eyes paying for a fun extra rather than saving every dime of it. I sure know if I were in OP's situation I would be spending that money upgrading to something to make the day extra fun and special for me and my loved ones, because I don't have pressing need of it for anything else in my life since it's already been "budgeted" to wedding stuff anyway. Sorry if my privilege is showing or whatever but I don't feel bad saying that to me I don't need $800 enough for anything else that it would stop me from spending it on a fun upgrade. I vote photobooth (ours was SO much fun for everyone) or BM services.

The judgement was the flippant comment that 800 bucks wasn't very much. Topic has already been covered.

dolewhipper · January 2015

hellohkb said:

I thought your wedding had a minimum you must spend, like mine does. In that case, I'd roll it over to your honeymoon or throw it into an emergency wedding fund (because apparently shit can pop up unexpectedly).

I never really spoke about my minimum before (not sure if you're confusing me with another knottie) but my venue minimum was surprisingly low.

themosthappy91 said:

TBH I don't understand how some of the people who are so adamant on here about savings even justified having weddings at all? Like no judgment but it just seems so arbitrary to think it's acceptable to spend $800 on a dress, or a party, or ANYTHING wedding related besides the actual marriage license I guess, but then to say that this $800 (or was it $900?), which has been responsibly set aside and already allocated towards wedding stuff already, really should go into savings.

Here's the thing: people have the right to spend their extra money how they want to a large extent. I don't get the offense taken over someone saying in the grand scheme of their budget that kind of money would be better spent in their eyes paying for a fun extra rather than saving every dime of it. I sure know if I were in OP's situation I would be spending that money upgrading to something to make the day extra fun and special for me and my loved ones, because I don't have pressing need of it for anything else in my life since it's already been "budgeted" to wedding stuff anyway. Sorry if my privilege is showing or whatever but I don't feel bad saying that to me I don't need $800 enough for anything else that it would stop me from spending it on a fun upgrade. I vote photobooth (ours was SO much fun for everyone) or BM services.

As larry stated, it was covered, and it's cool. Thanks for the suggestions!!

abbyj700 · January 2015

Savings and honeymooon!

We spoiled ourselves on our honeymoon - I'd suggest it to everyone! We drank more than we should have, bought stuff we'd never buy ourselves and went to more nice dinners in a week than we usually do in a year. It was great.

As someone who owns a home, it's baffling to me that some others think $800 wouldn't do much for a down payment. (FYI - I negotiated my $130,000 home down to $113,000 - had them pay closing costs, got a state grant and a first time home owners loan - and put down less than $800 when buying our home - so yeah, it can do wonders if you know how to do it) Or the increased costs of running new said home. Our home is very financially stable, we overpay our mortgage every month, we have substantial money in savings and own several lucrative stocks. I would NEVER think that $800 wasn't worth saving, investing or having. It is substantial. Not trying to start a fight - but thinking that money is not an inconsequential amount of money does not just come from people who are struggling financially.

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