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Jossie
Just Said Yes April 2020

Wedding was supposed to be 4/18/20 and it was cancelled for the 3rd time

Jossie, on April 16, 2020 at 5:26 PM Posted in Community Conversations 1 4

I am in need of some ideas and some encouragement. I am looking for any ideas to have a wedding around Christmas time. Christmas time is a time hope and renewal and I feel that is what my fiance and I truly need.

See, we were planning to get married this passed November and it was postponed to December 2019. March we had to cancel our wedding because I got into a severe car accident and my car was totalled just day of having it for 1 year. We were planning to use our deposit for our venue to buy a new car. My insurance paid for the remain note of the car. Well much to our surprise, the venue refused to give our deposit back. So we lost the car, cancelled our wedding and lost our deposit. Fast forward to about June. My fiance gets laid off after being in the company for 25 years. Right away we updated his resume and began looking for a job. Well he found one! (YAY). He began to notice his legs swelling up. One day he comes home and says to be he is having difficulty breathing. It was not like him to complain. It was getting worse as the night came and finally he asked to take him to the hospital. When we arrived ER rushed him back. He was having heart failure. Right away they rushed him to ICU and was there for about a day when we were sitting alone in his hospital room and he went into a seizure. They ran some test, (meanwhile, my fiance had no recollection of this) He was hemorrhaging and lost a lot of blood. They had to give him a blood transfusion and gave him 8 units of blood. They did more testing including a colonoscopy and found polyps and one of them had cancer. He had the surgery and by the grace of God they got it all and he is cancer free. Now we are good to go to get married. Our family was soo excited for us to get married and was looking forward to April 18,2020. Until the Coronavirus came. Everything was all set and ready to go. Now both of us being off work all of this time and wondering when and where should we have the wedding. We don't want it big and it doesn't have to be in an expensive place. This is our second wedding and we don't want to go and spend $20,000 for a wedding. Any ideas??

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Latest activity by Rebecca, on April 17, 2020 at 2:21 AM
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    Leslie ·
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    It depends on where you live. I live in Chicago and my budgeg will be around $10,000 for 80-90 people. Flowers and invites by Costco. No special lighting photo booths etc to save money.

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  • Rebecca
    Master August 2019
    Rebecca ·
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    Hi and welcome!

    I'm so sorry you've had so many obstacles! The good news is, your FH is cancer-free.

    Budget is highly dependent on where you live. DH and I live in a very expensive area, and even though we had a smaller wedding, it still cost around $30k. In a less expensive area, we probably would have paid half that. If you tell us your region, we could offer more budgeting advice.

    If your county clerk is still issuing marriage licenses, you could have a "drive by" wedding - social distanced, safe, with family and friends in their cars, officiant six feet away, all that kind of thing. That way, you could get married, and then have a vow renewal/reception later.

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    Just Said Yes April 2020
    Jossie ·
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    That sounds great. We live in the northeast area of Philadelphia. Mins from bensalem pa.
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  • Rebecca
    Master August 2019
    Rebecca ·
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    Well, you aren't far from us, but you're still likely not as expensive. At the top of the page should be a link labeled, "planning tools". Use that to help you get a good idea of the average costs in your area, as well as some leads for vendors.

    The best thing to do is to decide what parts of a wedding are important to you, focus your attention and budget there, and let the rest be.

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