The Ultimate Incentive proposed! Time for an ultimate challenge...

Tete_en_l'Air

Ha I know, how old are you Lara? I can't believe I'm going to be 28 next birthday :eek:

Off to have a squizz at Post #3....

Dinah93

So to do list for today:

• Check online banking
• Do wedding budget
• 1 Dooyoo
• 2 Dooyoo
• 3 Dooyoo
• 4 Dooyoo
• 5 Dooyoo
• 6 Dooyoo
• If my photos are on my laptop take with me to alter some this evening ready to shove up on etsy. If not take some books with me to babysitting to do more dooyoos
• go babysitting
• Rearrange Grassroots job from tonight to tomorrow
• Onepoll
• Scratchies
• Do Food focus!!!

Birdie85

Oooh Lara I know hoe you feel! It gets worse sadly once the solicitors get involved... we kept getting massive piles of paper to read and sign, it was like playing a game, spot the tiny x in the pile of paper since there was no real inclination of where we had to sign! I think it was a bit worse for us as it was a flat so we had leases etc to sign too! We paid a girl to sort out everything financial for us, she scouted out the best mortgage for us, sorted it, had all of our checks done, organised the survey etc. It was £100 but worth it since we had no idea what we were doing, we just kept signing cheques!

Good news about the rebate Tete! You can have a swirly Martin for that!:money:

Oooh, updates...off to post# 3 I go!

Dinah93

So wedding budget is only £11 over what I estimated. That's not terrible! Now...

Paid so far: £1000
Savings £7000
Additional savings by time of wedding: £9500
Wedding budget: £20,011
Deficit/Clear: £2511 short. EEEk! Thats a lot! But if I can oversave for the wedding rings, then that only leaves us £511 short.... thats doable?!

ETA: I can't count! I missed out December and november!!!! Sums altered, less scary now

ETA: ooooh I forgot interest, we're owed about £300 of that on the ISAs. So £211 is really really doable.

poddle911

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Ha I know, how old are you Lara? I can't believe I'm going to be 28 next birthday :eek:

I'm going to be 28 in two weeks' time!! :eek: I better go on with my 'things to do before I'm 30', one of which is becoming debt free(!) which isn't going to be easy...

Dinah, I think your budget is BIG but eminently sensible and I reckon you could easily come in under budget if that's what you're planning?

Why no budget for wedding dress? Did you say that was going to be a gift from your parents? Or are you planning on going all Adam and Eve on us?!

Dinah93

Lol no my parents are buying my dress. Ooooh and one of the brdesmaids mums is buying her dress (and likely to buy her shoes too) so thats about another £70 saved.

Thats a reaistic budget for us, if we come in under great, and we will try to get some bargains, but £20,000 is what we are expecting to spend.

Cinny91

The budget doesn't seem to bad when you break it down like that Dinah! Maybe in post 3 you should put a link to post 445 so I don't freak out for you when I look at it! :rotfl:

Lara - Try not to panic! (easier said than done, right?!) Good idea on saying you won't sign anything until you see the lease/contracts/whatever you call them! Hopefully it'll go without a hitch for you.

Birdie85

Well... if anyone can do it it's you! I can't believe how easily it all adds up though! Are you sure £200 is enough for Bridesmaid dresses? Aren't you having 3? Even on the highstreet I'd have thought you'd pay more than that unless you get really lucky in the sales!

Dinah93

I'm having 4, but only paying for 3, but I'm getting their dresses handmade to order in China, at a staggering $40 each, plus postage (unless I get NIMs dad to pick them up next time hes over!)

Dinah93

Also post 3.... I seem to be falling behind on the schedule!