pepperandchips
[melinda]
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2014
We had a hard time narrowing down the guest list too. I felt ruthless! But it turns out that the amount that I estimated when I initially contacted Wahoo was the EXACT number that accepted and attended (85), plus about 4 kids, which we only had to pay for one of and he was $9 It felt big enough that we had a great time dancing but small enough that we got to say hi to everyone and that didn't take all night.That sounds just about perfect. When my mom got married, because it was her second wedding she wanted to keep things small, and she also had her heart set on a venue that could only really comfortably accommodate about 50 people. She had such a hard time narrowing it down to so few guests. But giant weddings of 150-200++ people can be super hard on the budget, and feel really impersonal. I think 85 is just right.
Since you are so sweet to indulge my wedding shenanigans I wanted to share one more of my favorite photos, this is the $9 guest:
My cousin said to him that she wanted to take our picture, so I knelt down to be about his height and he knelt down too This is one of my favorite pictures of the whole day.
It honestly wasn't that bad! Especially with helpers. My mom, sister, and aunt came to my house on Friday morning and we made everything and then went to lunch. But my house did look like this for the weekend....Your flowers are amazing! I was so shocked to find out that...
...you did them yourself!?!?! You did such a beautiful job! Floral is so stupidly expensive, and you really had the best of both worlds getting exactly what you wanted but not totally breaking the bank. I'm sure it was a ton of work though!
Good thing we had that Airbnb
Your dress was perfect though and you looked like a doll! (I mean that in a complimentary way.) I just went and looked at your first look photos again to remind myself what your dress looked like and now I'm crying all over again... I blame (credit?) you, Alyssa, and Fallon for getting me obsessed with Disney weddings!!!Amazing!! You'd never know that you didn't spend a fortune, because it looks fabulous. But how great that you found a dress that worked for you for such a great price! My dress ended up being one of the priorities, because I'd seen a dress I wanted years before and had already envisioned wearing it for my wedding, so when I was able to find it I knew I had to have it! But since it had been discontinued a few months prior to me starting my shopping, I ended up getting a sample dress that was on sale for about $1000 CAD, plus a few alterations. This still felt very expensive to me for a dress I intended to wear once, but I know there are people out there who pay 5x that much. But had I not found that one, the other two dresses I looked at that I liked the most were $200 and $500, and our budget would have loved it if I'd gone with one of those instead!
And way to go with the sample dress! That's still really reasonable compared to what other people spend.
Thank you! I still can't figure out if it's that we had bad/cloudy lighting or if it's the editing. I am secretly (or maybe not so secretly) petty so I did this side by side comparison of our edited photos and a photo one of my guests took of the same centerpieceYour photos are beautiful! Though it's too bad that they aren't exactly the style you had in mind when you booked.
It's ultimately what gave me the courage to ask my photographers for some "less edited" shots of my floral. They still came back to me looking weird, but I didn't feel right complaining again.
For what it's worth, my cousin is a professional photographer (though not for weddings) and her photos are edited very similarly to our professional photos, so I decided just to be glad for what I got at the price we paid and move on. After all, they're only flowers.