I want a
beautiful wedding but I am not willing to bet my lifetime savings on it.
So what’s a kuripot bride
got to do?
A DIY wedding! Well, at
least mostly, for my part. I am not creative and I have zero experience in
events planning. But hey, I have wonderful friends with great hands and
talents. I guess it won’t hurt to bank on their help (fingers crossed).
Now, I understand there
are wedding planners who can customize your wedding according to your budget. And
I bet they can really do a good job. But then, getting their services will be
another slice in our budget pie. And when the pie is really small, every slice
counts.
No wedding planner means
having to do most of the job, (read: leg work, haggling, and all that jazz)
myself. And with a baby in tow, that would not be an easy task. While I can
imagine things to get really, really crazy, I am up to the challenge. In fact,
I am excited! I am challenging myself to make the wedding still beautiful and
memorable without going over our budget.
If there’s anything that
consoles me, it is the fact that I am a financial planner. Knowing I have
handled money matters worse than a tight wedding budget makes me believe this
feat can be done. I strongly believe in spending responsibly. In my vocabulary,
shelling out thousands of pesos for a single day of celebration is not merely ‘spending’.
It is splurging. And in my book, it is not responsible and it is a sin!
Looking back, I now think
that this is the major reason why I kept putting off getting married. While Rye
proposed to me last October 2013 (almost a year ago!), it is only recently that
I seriously started the wedding preps. Deep down, I knew that nobody will be
paying for our wedding, and I don’t have the heart to burden our parents or
rely on our sponsors. So, I had to bend and accept that somehow Rye and I will
have to let go of a serious amount of money.
With that settled, the
question now became: how much are we spending?
