The Wedding Fund

Okay, here’s the deal. Bird and I are budgeting $25,000 for our wedding in September.

Though I don’t plan on going over budget, I decided we might as well plan for it…because stuff can happens

So we’re putting $30,000 in our wedding fund.

• $10,000 from her parents
• $10,000 from my parents
• $10,000 from us ($5,000 each)

I’ve established an ING sub-account to handle all of this.  I already had some money in savings and then when I got my tax return, I moved that over there and,  bam, my $5,000 is taken care of.  Bird wrote me a check for $2,500 and I put that in there too.  She’s going to add to the fund in increments to help discipline herself to save deliberately from her paychecks even though she has enough in savings to write another check.  My parents have already contributed their $10,000.   I’m not about to go ask Bird’s parents about their part of the money. :)   I think they might just pay when it comes time to pay, which is fine by me.

Bird and I feel truly blessed to have such generous parents and I’m also proud that we both have saved enough money to cover the rest and that we won’t be going into debt for the wedding.  It will be a nice feeling the day after the wedding, knowing that everything is paid in full.  That is…unless we go over-budget by more than $5,000! 

But you don’t think I’m going to let that happen, do you?