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Mass hysteria! Ghostbusters

Forgive me, my brain is mush.

I have recently taken on new responsibility (read 2 new projects) at work and it's pedal to the metal to meet the quickly approaching deadlines!  It's been a long week.

Anyway, I figured it's been a while and I owe you guys a decent sized post.  I would say "good" or "quality" post, but I can't promise that this jumble of words will meet either of those promises.

So what's going on in our little world of wedding planning woes?  There aren't really too many woes...I just couldn't think of a better "w" word to use and wanted to keep the alliteration.

We have our official budget!  (see, no woe here)  Now we can start talking to our caterer with realistic cost expectations in mind for food, service, and alcohol.  Yay for being able to move forward on figuring out the biggest chunk of our wedding budget!

After we get realistic estimates for what we'd like to do, we can then figure out what we have left for other vendors and how we'd like to disperse the money.  Will I go with flowers or will all of us girls be holding something totally different?  Photography is a must, but will we go with a professional package or find a local photographer who wants to build their portfolio for a cheaper rate?  Will we go with cake, cupcakes, lava cakes, moonpies, or cannolies?  Have no fear, I will be taking advantage of cake tasting opportunities no matter what we decide.  Free cake?  You cannot turn that down!  DJ, band, or iPod?  Decisions, decisions.

We had it pointed out to us over the holiday break that what we thought was a simple idea for outfits for the groomsmen turned out to take our wedding party style way more formal than we wanted to.  The idea was to just have the guys wear black suits that they A) already owned or could B) wear again later should they decide to buy one.  That took us down the path of a white and black wedding look (my dress, their suits) and down the formal direction of things.  Oh no!  As soon as that was pointed out to us we did a quick reversal on that decision.  We want a relaxed, casual, and fun wedding.  My dress may look formal, but I won't be gliding down the aisle and being graceful on the dance floor in it, no!, I'm going to be rockin' that gown!  The dress may be formal but the girl wearing it, most certainly is not.  Crisis averted!