Worrying about the details after going to a wedding

Idiophreak

July2012 wrote: »

But we went to a wedding last night and everything was perfect. In fact it was stunning and had a real wow factor. Neither of us could stop going on about how much effort they had put into their detail and we heard the same being said by most people.

Note, then, that people were discussing the effort and the detail, NOT the money. You don't have to spend a lot to do some really lovely things. At a wedding I went to at the weekend, they gave little books of photos as favours - each guest had a personalised book of photos of them, the bride and groom and combinations thereof - absolutely lovely. Sure these could be sources very economically, but the amount of time and effort finding and selecting the pictures for each one must have been substantial - and everyone appreciated that.

My sister's wedding, she recreated lots of famous scenes from movies and printed them out on posters etc - again, not expensive, but everyone talked about it.

We had some sparklers at our wedding, just as a little talking point in the evening.

And, with weddings, the devil really is in the detail. I know it's hard, but you have to try and think of ALL these little details now, if you're going to budget for it. That's the biggest way in which my budget fell down - not thinking of a bunch of little things that all add up.

An example - my outfit. I thought about my suit. £95 or something. I thought about my button hole. £7 = £102, right?

I didn't think of: My haircut, £30, a new pair of shoes (in fairness, I wouldn't have known I needed these a year before) - £30, new socks and pants - £10, a new watch - £40 (could have done without, but I could have guest that I'd end up buying a new one - annoying, actually, didn't even wear it in the end - as OH gave me a much better watch as wedding present!) new cufflinks, £13...that's an extra £123 in total - so my outfit cost twice my budget, at least. In retrospect, my budget could have been a lot more detailed (and therefore realistic)...