Even though
it feels as if Lee and I are married, we are yet to tie the knot. We have been
engaged for over 4 happy years now, but I am yet to have a wedding ring join my
engagement ring. We would love to finally get married one day and I have often
dreamed about getting married to my true love, but unfortunately it has never
been the right time to plan our wedding.
There always
seems to be one thing or another preventing us from getting married. Perhaps
some could argue that there is always something going on to get in the way but
for us it has not been the right time to get married. A month after we got
engaged we found out we were expecting Bug and we decided the expense of a
wedding was not one we needed at that time, deciding to concentrate on the
happy time of making a family together and using the money we would have spent
on a wedding on our new baby instead. Then over the years there has been the
cost of moving house, new jobs, deaths in the family and now a new addition to
our family all putting our wedding on hold.
The sad
truth is that money, a lack of money that is, is the main reason why we have
yet to get married. Weddings are expensive. Big white weddings with all the extras
are extremely expensive. Even though a big white wedding is not our idea of a
dream wedding for us, the cost of having our dream wedding always seems to be
out of our reach. Whilst getting married on a budget is possible, even the
money needed for a budget wedding has been needed for another reason before we
manage to get as far into planning our wedding by having everything paid for
and booked.
As we
still hope to get married, hopefully in the near future and things are going
well for us of late, our thoughts have once again turned to thinking about
getting married and planning our dream wedding. To help us figure out where it
is possible for us to afford our dream wedding I have been using an extremely
useful wedding cost calculator created by Everyday Loans.
