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I know I will get back- it was just such a shock. I think a lot of it is water retention, your right. Gotta flush that out of my system this week. WOOOO to you making it to the gym! Awesome job!!!!!!!!!!!

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?????????????????????? OMG, that would be perfect for my hubby!!!!!!!!!!!

I once went one day where I think my post count went up nearly 25 because I was replying back and forth with someone. It can seem to creep and go no where and suddenly, BOOM!

Agreed!

YES! As soon as I could open them, I was like YESSSSS! Finally, I can start doing these amazing things!

Yeah, we had close to $1300 saved up, and then I had to take out nearly $700 for the car/insurance. So now we have about $500, so I am hoping to add in a couple thousand from our tax returns. Find out Friday night what we are getting back! Way I keep looking at it, is, hey, at least we have enough to get married legally here. If that is all we can afford, then we have our big dream wedding years from now. Life is life, and we all have to simply make due with what we are given. Thanks for making me not feel so alone. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO COMMENTED! You all made me feel much better.

hahahahahahahahahaha..........made. my. day. Could have been that! (and all the bad stuff I ate while AF was here...) I know, it will probably drop down again this week. That's just the way it is. But man, I was so shocked to see it go up that much.

I reached 150 within a couple of months, simply commenting on people's posts/ dress pictures/ DIY projects, etc. Once you reach 100 posts, the last 50 posts seem to fly right by.

This is amazing. Subscribing so I can follow, and keep a record of the things I will need to do as well!

Yup, I will be doing a ton of DIY We don't have Capital One here However, all of our money we are putting into a Tax- free- Savings Account, and we get interest monthly on it.FI has one and I will be opening one as well, so we can both get the interest added into the accounts.

I don't know where your post went??? It's not in here, and I didn't get a PM either..... haha lost in cyber space!

Oh excel is my friend! I will be using it to track out spending, that's for sure. I use spreadsheets galore at work right now, so I know how easy it makes life having everything set up properly. Once we figure out our budget, I will be able to start tracking our spending. As of right now, we don't have any costs for the wedding, so that will starting coming out very soon! Sales will be my friend too! Though that is how we live our life- we do our grocery shopping based on the store that has the best deals, not necessarily the one with the best produce/meat, etc.

Living pay cheque to pay cheque is the norm, I know, but it makes it really challenging, especially when you do know your costs are just going to keep going up! I know we will be splurging on photography as well. I think regardless of whether you do your wedding locally or away, photography seems to cost about the same. I plan on DIY the crap out of my wedding. Especially since the resort just sent me the price list for additional decorations. HA! Makes me a bit sad I can't have the real actual flower I want. But holy crap, $150-$180/us for a dozen stems of blue orchids. NO WAY. I will buy up a crap load of fake ones for $50, thank you very much. I will be making all my decorations/invites/programs/ etc myself as well. This website has inspired me to do all that! We did cut back what we could on our cable/internet. We already have the most basic packages we can handle. My cell phone is my life, so I can't bring it down too much further than it already is. I am planning on going through our apartment and selling a bunch of stuff we don't use/need. We have two tube TV's just taking up a ton of space in our spare bedroom. Thinking of selling those on kijiji for 25 a piece/ 40 for both, just to get them the heck out of there. And I have all of this teaching stuff that I won't ever use since I can't get a job teaching here.

I know, thank you! I know it is still so far away so worrying about it now is unnecessary. But heck, we've already been engaged almost 6 months now with barely anything saved. Okay, yes, granted, we bought a car because mine died on me as I was driving it (piece of ), so that took a big chunk of our savings for the initial payments and the insurance going up. And the extra $300 I had allotted for putting away for the wedding is now being paid in a car payment and more expensive insurance, so I think that is where a lot of my stress is really coming from. I know it was a completely necessary expense, but now we are only putting away $200/month, and that gets us absolutely no where towards where we need to be for this wedding. Things will change, hopefully new/improved jobs will bring an increase in pay. We'll see how things work themselves out!

So that's pretty much how I reacted last night when I stepped on the scale and it actually read a number. How I am up 4.5 lbs, I have NO IDEA. Like , I thought I was doing so well!!! I knew I wasn't doing absolutely everything right, and was snacking here and there on things I shouldn't be, but come on!!!!! Makes me wonder how off my scale has been. But either way, I am back up to 186 as of last night. This week is a serious need to drop like 8 lbs to get me back on track because I could use that $170 like nobody's business!!!! Tonight it is cardio at the gym for 50 mins, then an hour long boxing class that I am putting my heart and soul in to! Enough of this "oh, this chocolate won't go staight to my love handles" "no, this entire bag of Smartfood won't show up on my thighs". EEEEFFFFFF you brain and stomach. You don't control me. Gross, gross, gross. I want to look cute and be happy this summer, so let's go me! <-- what I will be saying to myself no. No, no bad, horrible, (delicious), make me look like a whale food anymore.

THANK YOU! Hahaha. I know Dreams is amazing- it's where we got engaged! I think after this weekend, after we file our taxes and find out how much our returns will be, it will be a heck of a lot easier to see how much we have to save per month. Just waiting on a couple responses from photographers, but nothing has swayed me so far from my first initial contact. I really thought I was going to be okay with the resort photographer, but I just don't see 50 pictures being enough. I know I am marrying the love of my life, so at the end of the day, if all we can afford is basics and nothing special for our guests, well, that's just the way it will be. It's a day to celebrate us, not a day to go broke haha.

Welcome back!!!! Can't wait to hear all about it!!!!!

Your right. I know things will work themselves out how they are supposed to. I am getting photographer quotes right now. I thought I was going to be okay with just the 50 from the resort photographer, but I'm realizing it's not enough, and I will really regret that. So adding in the photographer will be a lot more for us, but we will make it work. I plan to be a DIY bride, that's for sure. I have always loved stuff like that, and know what I want to do to get it all done. Tax time will definitely be where we save the most. Hoping to put away at least $3000 this year from it, if our returns are similar to what we got last year. I think once I see more in that account, I will relax a bit. I slept a bit on it over the weekend, and feel better about it. I am still crazy nervous about it all, but I know that will decrease when we sit down and have the full out discussion around it. Just have to get the quotes and put it all together.

That's gorgeous! I'm getting married Jan 20, 2014 at Dreams Puerto Aventura. I haven't had time to sent out paper Save the Dates...so I did it over evite....anyone else doing the same? I'm thinking of doing the same thing! Cut down on the cost for STD, and make the invites more special

I have followed this blog for over a year now. It kills me. I love it so much! She has a couple of books out too, which are hilarious and totally worth picking up.

Hey ladies, We are still over a year and a half out from our wedding. We know where we are going to get married and when. However, I am dreaming about the budget, about the guest list, about the planning and it is making me so anxious. Neither of us have particularly fruitful jobs- we don't have much left over at the end of each month after all of our expenses are paid. We are paying for the wedding ourselves (maybe with family contribution, but we aren't banking on that as both sets of parents are in a tight bind right now). I am just so stressed out right now over trying to save money and not making the day of our wedding crappy. I know, I know at the end of the day, if it is only the two of us, that is fine. But I know we will have some guests, and I just am so anxious about it being less than amazing. Heck, even if no one shows up, I am anxious we won't even have the money to go ourselves! I already work long hours every week, and have done the working two jobs at once. I burnt myself out pretty fast. I know I will feel better if/when I get a new job that pays more/is more relevant to my education. I'm not even articulating properly how I am feeling. I guess I am overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, exhausted. Please tell me I am not losing my mind- that this happens to everyone, and that it will get better. I think maybe growing up, being an adult and having these huge responsibilities is getting to me right now. I know I just need to take a breath and center myself. Things will work out, and our wedding will be as it is meant to be. It's just really hard convincing my overactive brain that at 2 o'clock in the morning when I wake up in a panic over photographer choices/ guest list worries/ etc. Seriously, did not think I would be this person. It goes away right?????

WOOOO! Way to go ladies!!! We are rocking week 3!

Absolutely! Being a bride is all about how you feel inside, not defined necessarily by what you are wearing on the outside. I think it's so amazing the vaste differences in every wedding. It truly is a celebrattion of the individuality of the couple!