#261

My now fiance asked me to marry him 2 weeks ago tomorrow. I've been on cloud 9 ever since. He's the best thing that's ever happened to me (every girl says that though.)

Neither one of us wants a super long engagement so right now we're planning for May 29, 2010. That gives us 261 Days till the ceremony. Which in all actuality is practically no time at all.

Everything I've read has said the first things you need to do are figure out a budget and how many guests there will be, after telling family and friends of course. I have absolutely no idea how we're supposed to figure out a budget, so I decided we're going to do it as inexpensively as we can, $10,000, and that's for about 200 people.

I'm going to admit first thing that I've also decided we need a $5,000 buffer just in case. But I'm confident that we can pull it off for $10k. I'm a do it yourself kinda girl with a keen sense of sale/ discount shopping.

So I'll wrap up day one with a list of ideas I have so far, I've come up with most of these from my past 2 weeks of reading the internet, which is why I started this blog actually.

• I love jewel tones, so I've decided on a few shades of purple, and also red, and pale lime for our color scheme. Adding drama with color is inexpensive.
• We both love love love the Beatles so their music is going to play a big role
• We're desperately searching for a venue to host both the ceremony and reception (we have a lot of out of town guests on our list) that will provide a unique setting and hopefully not have any florescent lighting, without costing a lot of money.
  
• I'm planning on making all the invitations, center pieces, bouquets and boutonnieres, and possibly favors myself (of course with the help pf some talented friends)

Have a fantastic hump day.