Weddingbee Blog

Eight years with a scientist is chipping away at me. I’m usually a “go with your gut feeling!” and “trust your instincts!” type, whereas J goes for anything quantifiable and Excel spreadsheet importable. And somehow, now, so do I. Which explains why I created this:

OK, 11 was a joke.

The rest are real, and my priorities look something like this:

Higher range

• Photographer 10
• Really great photographer 8
• Food 10
• Really delicious food 9
• Really delicious cake 8
• Music 9
• Really great music 8

Mid-range

• Specialty linens 7
• Photobooth 5
• Passed appetizers 4
• Videographer 5

Low-range

• Ornate invite suite 3
• Huge, tiered cake 1
• Specialty chairs 1

Not only does this give you a better idea of where your budget should be allotted, but it also highlights discrepancies. Here’s an example:

• Really delicious cake 8
• Huge, tiered cake 1

I have no interest in an ornate fondant cake. I have a LOT of interest in how delicious and creamy and buttery-sweet the cake is. This discrepancy lead us in a different direction, cake wise. A little more like this:

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or these:

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How do you figure out your priorities? Have you found that some items rank higher/lower than you expected?