Planning my wedding budget - lean and colorful

Ahhh, the dreaded wedding planning part.......... the budget.

My fiance and I are paying for the wedding and initially set our wedding budget at $30,000, which in our humble, hardworking and broke opinion, was enough, if not too much to pay for one fabulously stylish celebration.

Well, that's what we thought until I told him about the guest list................

Choosing my wedding colors - bold, bright and colorful

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love color. Not the sweet muted colors. Not pastel. Not silver or black.

I love and adore bright, bold colors. I surround myself with my favorite colors - orange, red, pink and yellow. Life is so much sweeter with color.

And so when it came time to make the first planning decision for the wedding? I went with the easiest one........... choosing the colors.

You guessed it - orange, yellow and pink.

I know the wedding is set for September, and some folks may think that's more fall than summer. I beg to differ. It's always summer in my color world. No halloween type orange colors, either. I don't want the feeling of a 'harvest' or 'thanksgiving feast' of any kind. I just want bright bold color and I'm gonna have it!!!

Engaged...........Now what?

So I've been engaged for a little over a week now, and I'm in full-on 'planning' mode. Where do I start? What do I do?

For someone who's not the most organized, this is going to be very interested. Between running my two businesses, my day job and planning a wedding, I'm either going to learn how to organize, prioritize and get it together or turn into one hawt mess!! what will it be?

Engaged and planning my wedding

Let the planning begin.......... Got engaged to the love of my life on July 9, 2010 and planning a wedding for September 2011.