DC's journey to become debt free and saving for wedding

debt_cruncher

We changed our minds over the date a few times but in the end we decided on 11 December 2010. Depending on whether the OH can find a job we might end up taking a small loan to pay for it but I am hoping to have the majority of the money saved by then.

The £2,200 I quoted earlier was for 50 guests, room hire, 4 course dinner, drinks and evening buffet and various other little things like first night accomodation for bride and groom and tea/coffee for guests on arrival etc. The only thing we need to get would be the DJ and I have emailed for a quote tonight so hope to here something tomorrow.

The price you said of £2,600 doesn't sound to expensive. You will have to look into it.

DC

debt_cruncher

Evening everyone

I still have £12.50 spends money a NSD for me. OH got another job rejection letter today but he applied to another 4 jobs so I am hoping he will find something soon.

I was doing a little summer clean in the house and I have a few things I can ebay so I will have to start doing that tomorrow. I listed 1 of OH's games on amazon tonight so I hope that will sell. So I hope to have a few more pennies to go towards the wedding fund.

Nothing else to report.

DC

yukkibear

That price is a bargain DC. I quite like the idea of a winter wedding, but my birthday is also in December and then I probably wouldn;t ever get an anniversary present lol. It's bad enough getting a birthday present from OH that's not wrapped in xmas paper lol.

Good luck with the selling and I hope your OH gets lucky on the job front soon.

debt_cruncher

My OH's birthday is 3 days after christmas and I have to remember to wrap his present in birthday paper and not xmas paper.

I am going to have to contact the venue again as they were suppose to get back to me on Monday. I have been looking at other venues and they are either already booked or too expensive. So I will chase these guys in the morning as I think it is a very good package.

I haven't had a chance to ebay tonight as I have been enjoying the evening sun and I did a bit of work in the garden. I am sure they will be plenty of wet nights to ebay.

Another NSD for me again so I still have £12.50 spends left.

DC

debt_cruncher

Evening everyone

I still have not spent any of my £12.50 weekly spends. Any money left on a Friday is being transferred to savings account.

We are going to see a wedding venue next Saturday and if we like it I will have to pay £500. I also seen and offer today for photographer and videographer for £850 and this includes an album. This sounds very good so I will have to look into this. The wedding disco people have not got back to me yet so I am still waiting for the quote.

I am going to do a monthly shop online tonight so I hope to stick to the £100 budget. This leaves £20 for milk and fresh fruit and veg for the month.

DC

yukkibear

Well done on keeping your spends. Have fun at the weekend looking at wedding venues. I'm jealous lol.

debt_cruncher

yukkibear wrote: »

Well done on keeping your spends. Have fun at the weekend looking at wedding venues. I'm jealous lol.

We will have to wait another week before we can see the venue as they have 3 weddings this weekend. However we provisionally booked it today so if we like it next Saturday all we have to do it pay the deposit and it is ours.

debt_cruncher

Evening everyone

I had a strange day today, I got a puncture at the weekend and got it fixed today costing £14 so that's the £12.50 weekly spends budget out the window. I also had to buy buns for the office as it was my birthday a few weeks ago and today was the first day I was in so that was another £10. However I got home to find the car insurance renewal letter in and was for £285. Last year it was £525 and I have this amount saved up so I have saved £240 :j. So as a treat I bought OH a couple of games for £33. The rest of the money we are going to use to pay for wedding deposits.

I got a quote for the wedding disco costing £500 and he plays for as long as we want him. So we are going to go for this. The reception and disco are coming in under £3000.

DC

Lemon_Tree

blimey that's one heck of a cost for a disco, we got a ceidlh band and a disco for about the same amount of money and they were playing for the whole evening. I miss planning our wedding, i really enjoyed looking for things and how to get what we wanted for what we were prepared to pay.
well done for the savings on the car insurance.

yukkibear

That is quite an expensive price for a dj but then if you like him and he will give you what you want then go for it.
Good news about the car savings.