This past weekend marked two weeks before our big day. The two week mark is when nearly every vendor requires payment. All they money in my savings account has now been sent to the allocated recipient. With less than a week and a half left of wedding planning, I wanted to write out my thoughts on how to actually set a budget.
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Before I had them, engagement photos always seemed like an unnecessary expense. Plus, I hate dressing up, trying to coordinate outfits, and doing my hair/makeup, so it seemed like a hassle. Our photographer included engagement photos in each of her packages because she felt they were necessary. Looking back, I am so happy we got our engagement photos done and here's why:
I picked out my own engagement ring. Since I was going to be wearing it for the rest of my life, I wanted to love it as much as I love my now fiance.
When I started to look for rings, I went to one of my favorite online stores, Etsy. I noticed a lot of engagement rings on Etsy were moissanite, so I started to research the stone. I learned that moissanite was originally found in a crater left by a meteorite. Real moissanite is very rare; the stones included in rings on Etsy are lab created stones. (Both real and lab-created moissanite are much rarer than natural diamonds.) Moissanite is nearly as hard as a diamond; it is a 9.25 on the Mohs Scale where diamond is a 10 (for scale, sapphire is a 9 and emerald is a 7.5). What sold me was that Moissanites are more radiant than a diamond. I LOVE how sparkly my ring is. On sunny days, my ring shines a rainbow of lights onto my car ceiling. I finally finished addressing my wedding invitations, and all out guests should be receiving them in a few days. Overall, address envelopes are an insignificant part of the wedding process. I didn't want to DIY major projects and risk ruining them, so this task was a fun thing to do to keep my mind off how close the wedding was actually coming.
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