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There were a few splurge items for the wedding that I mentally listed as very nice to have if we have room in the budget, but not totally necessary. The first was photography, and I can’t wait for Lynn Michelle to shoot our engagements, rehearsal, and wedding! Another splurge was uplighting for the reception.

All images courtesy of Astounding Sounds

I think the lighting really does change the venue and the feel of the room. When researching uplighting, we found that a lot of DJs offer it along with their music/MC role. We have begun the DJ search and are hoping to kill two birds with one stone by booking a DJ that includes a lighting option.

Another splurge for the wedding that we really want to fit into the budget is a photobooth.

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The first pictures Mr. E and I have together were taken in a mall photobooth on our third date. That photo strip still hangs on our fridge to this day. As you can guess, we’ve changed a little since then.

There are a couple of cool aspects of the photobooth that really drew us in:

• First off, none of our friends have had one at their weddings, so I think it would be something new for them to enjoy.
• The booths that we are looking at all provide a CD of all the pictures taken that night, so we can go back after the wedding and look at all of our crazy-fun guests
• We could also include double printouts that night. This way our guests would be able to take a copy home with them, and the other would be left for us. We could possibly put them all into an album for us to enjoy for years to come.

We are currently working on fitting the booth into our budget as well as our venue—depending on our final guest list there may not be enough room to fit the booth in the room with all the guests and buffet, in which case we would have to move it to the bar area or right outside the ballroom.

Our last splurge/wish-list item is videography. The videography topic was not included in the initial planning talks among Mr. E, my parents, and me. We figured that we could just relive the big day from all the wonderful pictures our photographer will take. At the second meeting with our planner, Kathie asked about videographers, and Mama Elephant piped up that videography was on her wish list if we could fit it in the budget.

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I thought to myself, who would really want to watch that video? It would probably be a waste of money, and only we (well more so me then Mr. E) and possibly my parents would watch it. But after thinking about it more and checking out some of the awesome videos on local videographers’ websites and ones on Weddingbee, like Mrs. Scissors amazing video, I was hooked. Even if it didn’t get played a million times, it would be so wonderful to actually hear Mr. E and me say our vows on that day!

We’re still doing our research to see if we can find a decent videographer that won’t break the bank.

What are you splurging on for your wedding? What’s on your wedding wish list?