Weddingbee Blog

So… my Christmas was an interesting one. One that was a little sad and a little stressful. Let me explain.

See, wha’ ha’ happened was…

Mr. Rainbow and I decided to forgo Christmas gifts for the most part this year. When we first got engaged, we were planning on having a lot of help from my family. All in all, Mr. R and I were only going to be covering about 40% of the wedding costs ourselves. Of course, Murphy’s Law stepped in, and due to some unforeseen circumstances (i.e. the craptastic economy), at about the 7 month mark we realized that we’d basically be footing the whole bill ourselves, or at least a good 90% of it. As I said, we decided not to do Christmas presents this year in an effort to save every extra dime we had in order to be able to pay for the wedding. Needless to say, my “Christmas Spirit” was something akin to a lump of coal covered in reindeer poo.

Christmas has always been a really special holiday for me, and the fact that we were essentially treating it like every other day of the year was really bothering me. It was the second year in a row that I wasn’t able to see my dad for Christmas (I’m a total daddy’s girl, I cried at work last year when I found out he wasn’t coming to FL for Christmas), add that to the fact that there were zero presents under the tree when I woke up (guess Santa really isn’t real), and I had absolutely no desire to spend the holidays with my extended family if my dad wasn’t going to be there. So, I woke up and 5am Christmas morning and spent the first 30 minutes of my day taking down our Christmas tree. It sucked.

When Mr. Rainbow saw what I was doing, he asked me what was wrong. We sat down and talked and talked and crunched some numbers and talked some more.

Eventually we came to the conclusion that neither of us is willing to sacrifice our quality of life for the next 4 1/2 months to be able to finance one day of our lives. It’s just not worth it to us. Of course, we’re excited for the wedding, and we’re excited to get married, but we’d literally have to save every extra dollar that we have post-bills to be able to rustle up the remaining balance for the wedding in May. I don’t know about you, but I am not okay with being broke and bummed out for the next 4 months of my life all in the name of a wedding. So, what are we going to go?

Surprise! I’m now a fall bride! That’s right hive, we pushed the wedding from May to October. That means you get me as a Miss for an extra 5 months (holy crap, I hope I don’t run out of things to talk about, yikes!). It really was the best decision all around, and I’m so glad we went ahead and did it! As an added bonus, the new wedding date is also my 23rd birthday! Extra presents, you say?

And don’t you worry, luckily we chose colors that are pretty season-neutral, so we’re not changing anything as far as colors or decor. Yay!

Have you had to change your wedding date, or any other major part of your wedding? If so, why? Did you have to find new vendors?