I cannot believe how generous my future in-laws are. I am almost at a loss for words. All I can say is that I am so lucky to know such wonderful people, let alone becoming part of their family.
They are in town for a few days to ski and hang out with 2/4 of their children who live up here. FH and his older brother who just bought a house here. FMIL was way excited to talk about the wedding, which was a blast. I told her the breakdown of all the costs, letting them know we were planning on paying for all of it, even though they had said the would contribute. We were puzzling over the guest list, trying to keep it around 40 people to keep cost down. It was impossible though.
Until... FFIL and FMIL decided to multiply my budget by 2.5. The only string attached was that we invite all the aunts and uncles, which is just fine since we wanted to be able to invite them anyway.
This takes such a huge weight off my shoulders. I started crying as soon as we got in the car to go home. Poor FH was trying to cheer me up but I wasn't even sad. I wasn't even sure what I was crying about. I just was so grateful.
So we get to have our perfect wedding. I crunched the numbers last night and no matter how hard I try, I still have a surplus in the budget.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
A Huge Relief
I must confess I have been stressing out about the guest list. It has been a major point of contention. FH and I want to have it AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. But that doesn't seem to happen. I have set the cutoff mark at 42 people. That is for one long table (actually 5 8' banquet tables set end to end). It actually might work. We might get away with it.
My worry was that FH has a large family. His parents both have 2-3 siblings each, and each of them have 2-3 kids, and even some of them have kids. It's tough to decide who goes and who stays, but many of those cousins I have never met. We are really only inviting those that we are close with or have regular contact with.
But our dream of having a small wedding is coming true. It's awesome because this shrinks our budget too! I only have to buy 5 tablecloths at $12 each ($60) from smartyhadaparty.com. I am making my own burlap runners, purchased from save-on-crafts.com. And this means I need way fewer bottles for my centerpieces (hello antique stores). Now that I have less people coming, my world of options has expanded. I only have to make around 30 invitations! And my cost for rentals just went down exponentially. Ah so excited.
My FFIL and FMIL are coming into town this weekend. I am so excited to see them and discuss the wedding. They have both said they would like to contribute so I am hoping to have some rough numbers crunched for them.
How did you whittle down your guest list? Anyone else having a super tiny wedding?
My worry was that FH has a large family. His parents both have 2-3 siblings each, and each of them have 2-3 kids, and even some of them have kids. It's tough to decide who goes and who stays, but many of those cousins I have never met. We are really only inviting those that we are close with or have regular contact with.
But our dream of having a small wedding is coming true. It's awesome because this shrinks our budget too! I only have to buy 5 tablecloths at $12 each ($60) from smartyhadaparty.com. I am making my own burlap runners, purchased from save-on-crafts.com. And this means I need way fewer bottles for my centerpieces (hello antique stores). Now that I have less people coming, my world of options has expanded. I only have to make around 30 invitations! And my cost for rentals just went down exponentially. Ah so excited.
My FFIL and FMIL are coming into town this weekend. I am so excited to see them and discuss the wedding. They have both said they would like to contribute so I am hoping to have some rough numbers crunched for them.
How did you whittle down your guest list? Anyone else having a super tiny wedding?
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