Discussions by Amanda

I was just going over the wedding budget for the millionth time (Budgetzilla, party of one) and realized the wedding is 10% paid for YAY! So far we've made a $1000 deposit to hold our venue and...

FH and I are going back and forth over whether or not our $2500 bar tab will actually last the entire reception. We're inviting 150 guests and the reception will be from 6-10PM. At this point,...

I wrote a few days ago about some discrepancies in my venue/caterer contract. Basically, they offered us a savings on appetizers, but then seemingly overcharged us on entrees. Well, we finally met in...

Background: we're planning on a 5PM ceremony and the reception must end at 10PM. We would also like to do a first look. My first choice photographer offers two packages: one is for 6 hours coverage...

Gah. So excited / nervous. I just shaved and gave myself a fresh mani/ pedi, and I tried to limit carbs today. (Other than the rice with my dinner and two glasses of moscato just now, whoooops.) And...

After two weeks of waiting, we finally received the updated proposal from our venue, which also provides catering. We had asked to have a few things comped, such as the $2K rental fee and...

An old friend of mine just started her photography business and is taking our engagement pictures for a steal. She does GREAT work; I've always admired it and wondered why she didn't take pictures...

Tablescapes! I am desperately in need of some inspiration for mine. My colors are navy blue, turquoise, and white. I am definitely using blue mason jars filled with white peonies/garden roses, along...

...kind of makes me want to get into the wedding industry again somehow. I was fortunate enough to work as a wedding coordinator for a few years at the chapel on my college campus. It was an awesome...

I think I just had my "this is really happening" moment. Tonight while browsing honeymoon options, FH and I were saying how important it is to us to take our honeymoon right after the wedding....

Between valentine's day and the excitement of recently getting engaged, I would love a sexy reminder of this time in our lives. I'm generally pretty insecure about my body, so FH would be SHOCKED. I...

As I've mentioned on here before, FH and I are HUGE country music fans. With that in mind, I'd like to ask our DJ to keep like 90% of the music in the upbeat (read: rowdy) country music genre, with...

I'm strongly considering the idea of making a donation to charity instead of favors, but I need some help with how/whether to pass that information on to our guests. FH's best friend tragically lost...

It's a typical cold, rainy, January day here in Maryland, so of course I'm browsing honeymoon plans! We have a $3,000 honeymoon budget (thanks, dad!), and I'm blown away by how many options...

So we just got our estimate from our venue for the total bill. Plated dinner for 150, venue rental, and $2000 bar tab (cash bar after tab runs out) plus bartenders came out to over $11K....

Another thread about FH involvement and a conversation with my own FH last night got me thinking - how involved is your FH? We discussed his involvement early on and came to an agreement. Basically,...

Also, how long have you been engaged? We just got engaged on Christmas Day 2012 and have jumped right into planning our wedding for 13 June 2014!!! We are getting mixed opinions on starting to plan so...

FH and I are playing with the idea of shrinking our guest list from 200 to 150 in order to allocate some funds to other wedding costs. An easy way to do this would be to not invite children, and it...

I know this has been discussed before, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on a Friday wedding in our situation. We are getting married in our rural hometown at a location that's very special to us...