So anyway, I found the most gorgeous wedding dress (in my opinion) at David's Bridal and decided to design my wedding around that. I bought the dress and after having to go up a size It's mine...YEA!!!!!!!. I still have to get invitations but here is where my problem starts. It's not really the invitations that are the problem but the reception venue, number of guests etc. Oh did I mention the big event is supposed to take place in July. Anyway I wanted to have the reception at the Hilton Kingston and My father and Grandmother want to have the reception in the backyard...The small backyard with max capacity of 150...I am not saying I plan to invite more than that but it doesn't leave much wiggle room and then add the fact that my mom's side of the family will need somewhere to stay when they travel from the states...having the reception at the hotel just seemed simpler.
Thinking back to my sisters wedding she had 300+ guests at her Jamaican wedding and she had a wedding in the states as well, ah the benefits of being the first born. Lucky M (male cousin 3 months younger than me). he won't have to concern himself with such issues. If my grandmother hadn't sold her house a few years ago the backyard thing would have been no issue, that front yard held everyone at my sisters reception and my aunt's before that. you may be wondering how it is that my sisters guest list at one of her weddings went over 300, without her American side of the family or her grooms family there and somehow I have ended up with a guest list of 150 and am being told to cut it back further. well if you're not, I sure am.
Anyway I managed to delegate a lot of the little things, flowers, music and cakes, I bought my dress and favours and plan to get the invitations myself, all my dad has to pay for is the reception, the average wedding in the united states is over $20,000 and i am not requesting anything quite that extravagant, i am going to have the ceremony in the church I attended so that I get to use the church for free, and I was going to ask his cousin to officiate. I figured having the reception at a hotel where they provide the food, alcohol, a venue, a place for the bride to stay the night before the wedding, transportation to and from the ceremony, and several other perks as well as discounted rooms for overseas guests all for $40 per person (not the guest rooms just the discount) why would you insist on having to rent tables and chairs and redo the entire hilly backyard just for a wedding. So I agreed to look at it their way and see what I thought. I requested quotes for all the expenses involved in a backyard wedding: catering, table and chair rental, table cloth rental, tent rental, etc. I'm still waiting. The longer I put off booking the reception place I want the less likely I'll get it. They know this. I think it's a plot. Now if I have the reception in the backyard where am I going to put my guests from overseas, there are only so many guest rooms in these houses.
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Getting married means you'll have
Someone's hand to hold,
Even when you're feeling sick,
Even when you're old.
It means when you sit down to eat,
Someone will be there,
So you won't have to tell your day
To an empty chair.
It means that you can have some kids
Just like a mom and dad,
And play with them all afternoon,
Except when they are bad.
It means that when you need some help,
Someone will help out,
Someone always near to you
So you won't have to shout.
But best of all is when it's time
To turn out all the lights:
You won't have to be alone
Those long and scary nights.
So even though you don't have toys,
You don't have to care:
Once you're married you can be
Each other's teddy bear!
:)
That was beautiful. Yes, I fully agree on the plot theory, but, in the end, what you say is true. You and the person you love are there, and you get to be married. The rest...while important, is really only icing.
:D
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