ROAD BLOCK 1 – Budget!

Remember to say “ do not wish for perfect wedding” a thousand times a day to remind yourself!

So once you have all the details, how to decide on the final venue…. 

For most people, the budget decides! I didn’t choose my favorite venue either but I am still very happy with mines! What I feel so far which I have learnt is that, at the beginning when everything was still green, you just hoped for any venue that responds… once you realise hey.. its easy! You hope for the most prettiest venues that is available and once you realise how many amazingly beautiful venues that’s available, you hope for the perfect wedding! Its an automatic road! But then the budget road block hits you and you have to decide whether you want the perfect wedding or you will go for what the budget allows

PLEASE DO NOT wish for the perfect wedding, this is just the start, theres such a long road of the most perfect everything. I had a really long rational thought process and realized hey I really do like the other venues too… If the best didn’t pop out, I will be already happy to be choosing anyone of them! Really, its just one day of your life so be rational.

My budget breaker was the accommodation – the accommodation was not included in my package and on top I have to work out where else the guests can stay because it will be too much for them. I also have to work out transportation a few times a day. Although everything else was reasonable, everytime I thought about arranging the accommodation and transportation, my head was stuck and I already panicked. There is no way I can arrange that and the wedding planner idea came back and more costs there! 

So a huge advice I want to give is consider the accommodation costs right at the beginning before getting carried away. A lot of the hotels don’t give you that information right at the beginning and it is easy to get lured into wrong direction and when you are given the accommodation cost bomb, it is so draining to think how can I rebudget or how can I shuffle costs around. I wasted 2 weeks and felt absolutely exhausted. Once I decided to drop my that venue, I felt a huge sigh of relief that I didn’t even realise how much stress I was in.