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Alternative title: How the Wrong Linens Cost Miss Cotton Candy 500 Bucks and Her Sanity

Yesterday I received what I’d describe as a barf-inducing call from our coordinator regarding our linens. I’m not sure what spurred our coordinator to reach out to our rental company to confirm the dimensions of our linens—maybe some sort of wedding coordinator sixth sense—but I’m thankful that she did, because  the linens we reserved are too short for our tables. This isn’t the end of the world, but this isn’t really what I had in mind when I envisioned our tables:

Image via Elite Bridal Concierge

The simple fix would be to reserve new floor-length linens from our rental company and call it a day.

Unfortunately for us, our rental company doesn’t carry linens long enough to reach the floor, which means in order to achieve our vision of long reception tables, we have go through a different rental company and shell out an extra 500 bucks, an outrageously large amount that makes my heart hurt.

Linens were supposed to be such a small portion of our budget, so to have the cost almost triple on top of increasing catering, a ginormous must-buy list, and a pile of unfinished DIY, and my anxiety hit a boiling point.

I’m ashamed to say I broke and spent my whole drive home (an hour-and-a-half to be exact) in tears, trying to decide whether I could come to terms with less-than-perfect linens or stomach spending the extra money on the correct ones. Once I got home, I continued my tear-induced madness and buried myself under a pile of blankets for a full blown pity party for one.

Mr CC, being a lover of tough love marched into our room and told me I needed to face my problems. He was giving me one  hour to cry it out, after which he expected me up and out of bed and in the living room ready to crunch the numbers to see were we could find the extra money for all our added expenses.

Thanks to Mr CC’s kick in the pants, we were able to shuffle around our budget to afford all the extra expenses that are getting thrown our way and got together a game plan to tackle our DIY mountain. I’m still a little anxious about our ever growing to do list, but I trust Mr CC to keep me on track the next 30+ days and I’m crossing my fingers that we’ve seen the end of the unexpected expenses, even though I have a feeling we haven’t!

Have you had a bridal meltdown? How do you handle unexpected budget curve balls?