after having a few panic attacks last week, i was definitely on the verge of rejecting the idea of a wedding completely and dragging ryan down to city hall and getting it all over with. but instead, i decided to just reject the idea of an indoor gala featuring any sort of food & drink, cake and all. but my last shred of hope was to investigate a newish restaurant that a friend of a friend referred me to. so on the way home from school with ryan, we stopped at spill the wine to investigate. and fell in love. and when the time came for the magnifying glass, we were shocked (in a good way) to find a reasonable number printed on the teeny-tiny price tag.
with a guestlist of thirty, it would be under a thousand. with a guestlist of seventy-five, just about two thousand. many brides spend more on the dress. i find that completely insane, so i'll be spending more on the photographer, who i have yet to meet with but am already completely obsessed with (in a good way, not a creepy stalkerish way). his name is scott, he's at olive juice studios, and he's amazing.
of course, there's always a catch, and this time the teeny-tiny magnifying glass reveals something that might pose a problem for this twenty-something dreamer-on-a-very-tight-budget...commissions start at $4200. this is, in fact, relatively high for photographers in this area, even the better ones. but to be honest, this is the one thing i'm completely willing to splurge on. i'm just hoping that maybe-possibly-perhaps someone (or some number of people) might be willing to foot that one little bill.
originally, i wanted a photographer and a photobooth, but i'd take scott over a photobooth any day. of course, ideally, i still would like to have both. it's all going to come down to budget (as always).
if we just have the dinner (and some clothes and little trinkets, of course) my guess is that we can keep it around $3k. maybe $5k if i get a bit carried away. add on a photobooth for $1k and scott for $4k and suddenly we're looking at an $8000 grand total. but if somebody is often enough to pay scott on my behalf, that would drop down to $4k that i'd have to cover, and i think that's a manageable number. hopefully. i think.
in any case, there's still a chance that i can weasel my way into his tiny frigid heart (only kidding, i'm sure he's lovely) and he'll be willing to sacrifice a day he could bank $4k and charge a grip less since the party will only last a few hours instead of eight or twelve or whatever the $4k would buy me (which is an awful lot of time and film, believe me).
my last discovery of the day was that the fishes i was hoping to have around (instead of overpriced flowers) as centerpieces are not very compatible and that leaves me to research domestic fish species. hopefully i'll get lucky and there's some inexpensive friendly fish who can happily survive in a tiny vessel of H2O for a few hours and be readily adopted by guests (or myself, and put into a larger aquarium, if need be). and hopefully those fish are beautiful, in black, white, and orange, get along swimmingly (haha, boo!) and won't jump out to flop around on rented linens and china unexpectedly.....
so i'll make ryan take me to petsmart on the way home today so we can do some sniffing around.
with a guestlist of thirty, it would be under a thousand. with a guestlist of seventy-five, just about two thousand. many brides spend more on the dress. i find that completely insane, so i'll be spending more on the photographer, who i have yet to meet with but am already completely obsessed with (in a good way, not a creepy stalkerish way). his name is scott, he's at olive juice studios, and he's amazing.
of course, there's always a catch, and this time the teeny-tiny magnifying glass reveals something that might pose a problem for this twenty-something dreamer-on-a-very-tight-budget...commissions start at $4200. this is, in fact, relatively high for photographers in this area, even the better ones. but to be honest, this is the one thing i'm completely willing to splurge on. i'm just hoping that maybe-possibly-perhaps someone (or some number of people) might be willing to foot that one little bill.
originally, i wanted a photographer and a photobooth, but i'd take scott over a photobooth any day. of course, ideally, i still would like to have both. it's all going to come down to budget (as always).
if we just have the dinner (and some clothes and little trinkets, of course) my guess is that we can keep it around $3k. maybe $5k if i get a bit carried away. add on a photobooth for $1k and scott for $4k and suddenly we're looking at an $8000 grand total. but if somebody is often enough to pay scott on my behalf, that would drop down to $4k that i'd have to cover, and i think that's a manageable number. hopefully. i think.
in any case, there's still a chance that i can weasel my way into his tiny frigid heart (only kidding, i'm sure he's lovely) and he'll be willing to sacrifice a day he could bank $4k and charge a grip less since the party will only last a few hours instead of eight or twelve or whatever the $4k would buy me (which is an awful lot of time and film, believe me).
my last discovery of the day was that the fishes i was hoping to have around (instead of overpriced flowers) as centerpieces are not very compatible and that leaves me to research domestic fish species. hopefully i'll get lucky and there's some inexpensive friendly fish who can happily survive in a tiny vessel of H2O for a few hours and be readily adopted by guests (or myself, and put into a larger aquarium, if need be). and hopefully those fish are beautiful, in black, white, and orange, get along swimmingly (haha, boo!) and won't jump out to flop around on rented linens and china unexpectedly.....
so i'll make ryan take me to petsmart on the way home today so we can do some sniffing around.
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