Weddingbee Blog

I’m Miss Powder Puff, and I’m thrilled to be the newest bee to buzz around the hive!

Here’s a little info about myself. I’m a Michigan transplant living in Chicago, but planning a wedding back home. Sounds great, right? Well here’s the kicker—Mr. Powder Puff and I are planning our wedding for only $10,000!

We decided on that budget for a couple of reasons. First of all, we feel very strongly that the wedding industry has turned something that is about promising to spend your life with your best friend into, well, something else. Tune into shows like “Platinum Weddings” (on the WE network), and you’ll see what I mean. Amongst all the signature cocktails and gilded wedding cakes, they’ve lost the original, sacred meaning of the ceremony itself (my apologies if any of you enjoy these types of events. They are merely not my style). So Mr. Powder Puff and I decided to keep our budget small for the sake of keeping our wedding sane. We want to focus on the day rather than stress over a million details.

Second of all, we are saving for a down payment on a house.

Keeping our budget as low as possible is allowing us to have a home to live in after we say, “I do!” So be on the lookout for DIY projects galore—I love to craft!

Now, a little bit about Mr. Powder Puff and myself. We have been dating for a year and a half, and we’ve been engaged since May. We met in a very surprising way—online (more about that later)! Mr. Powder Puff is amazing, and I honestly can’t wait to be his wife!

Thanks for having me, girls! I can’t wait for us to get to know each other!