Weddings and EXPENSES!

I'm getting married in 4 months. Yes. FOUR MONTHS. Actually, as my lovely fiance kept pointing out this past weekend, we're getting married in 3 months and 3 weeks. He obviously is not planning any part of the wedding and I must have been able to hide the utter terror occurring in my brain. I guess practice makes perfect...?

I should probably clarify something here. I am not terrified and freaking out to marry the man. No, actually I'm super excited to marry my best friend who has a knack to drive me insane while making me laugh at the same time. How that is even possible I don't know but he does both quite well.

Anyway, wedding terror and freak outs I believe are common in this world. Not that it makes it right or okay but, I am not alone. To be honest, I am not actually terrified or freaking out. When I think about the fact I haven't order my invitations (or even decided on them!) I cringe a little and ignore that the thought even came into my mind. (College let me perfect my already perfected procrastination techniques, a degree was included with that! ;) ) 

I recently stumbled upon (stumble upon...so 2 years ago) an info graph on Pinterst (duh I found it on Pinterest. If I got paid to be on Pinterest I think I could maintain a pretty darn good salary. If anyone hears of any openings, Pinterest testers or something call me). If you would like to see it, look here! I love these! Mainly because they make me proud of my diamond and feel frugal with my budgeting. And then I look at it more and want to crawl into a hole for a few days and come out post wedding date.

So here are a few of my thoughts... I think what I have been struggling with the most is the money, Money, MONEY. Wedding expenses are INSANE! I will be honest- my parents have been generous and I appreciate all they have provided. That being said, the average wedding costs $27,000. What!? That's a lot of $$$. Why are weddings so expensive? Now someone can argue with me that I'm just not finding the cheapest options. I would like to disagree... According to that infograph, the cheapest state average for weddings is $11,000. I'm sorry but really? Why does the cheapest state average have to be the same amount of a nice used car? It's a day...one special DAY. 

The infograph also says the average number of guests is 140. That's when I laughed out loud and then almost cried. Our number: 360 guests and I'll just say our wedding will costs ABOUT 1/4 of the average. Someone save me! lol 

Enough frustrations about wedding expenses. Time to spend more time on my budget...