In a moment of overzealousness I booked an appt to see how much it would cost to get Invisalign. they told me I need my wisdom teeth out first (I figured), so I made that appt and got my wisdom teeth out yesterday! I also got the bill yesterday 🙃 even with decent dental insurance it cost pretty much all that I had saved for Invisalign (1300$,) (I planned to work out a payment option for Invisalign with the dentists office and use this money as a down payment). Then it was only going to be 200$/mo for one year (max they stretch for) which I could handle. But now that my savings is spent on my wisdom teeth extraction, it would be more like 300$ish/mo. I didn’t budget for that and I’m not comfortable with paying that much more ESPECIALLY with my wedding right around the corner, that’s money I definately could use for other things. No, I don’t want to put it on a credit card bc I just paid mine off with my taxes this year. Plus FH is huge on not being in credit card debt.
So now I’m stuck, and I’m bummed bc I really wanted this to happen. The dentist was certain he could fix my front top row by September in time for the wedding so I could smile and take all the pictures I wanted... but I know the responsible thing to do is not get them and not stretch myself that thin financially.
I attached two pictures to show- one pic shows how my teeth actually look, the other shows how sometimes I can get the lighting to lie for me lol our photographer is my old roommate and Great friend and he knows I hate my teeth. All of our engagement photos he didn’t have me smile in (look at FH, kiss FH, gaze into the sun lol) unless it was far away enough that you couldn’t see my teeth. So I know he will figure it out for me for my wedding, I just wish I could have up close happy, smiling pictures without hating them.
Anyone else have something that they really wanted for their wedding and just couldn’t swing it? How’d you make yourself feel better?
