Tuesday, June 16, 2009

wedding and housing!

so you may not know, but i've been engaged since april 2007. if anything, something tells me that it's about time we get married.

only we are in a bind. the cash we do have to marry will most likely go towards housing. unlike a lot of families we know, we're paying for everything ourselves.

the wedding - yep the dress, the rings, the venue, the reception, the everything. we're saying screw the traditional wedding with 2 ceremonies, one huge reception for 500 people who we do not know intimately, and we're going w/ a destination wedding for ourselves and closest friends & family. if they can make it, great, if not, then we're sorry to not have them.

housing - well....if we don't have our wedding, then we can possibly buy our very first home together. we will not have family members help us out to purchase the home, b/c then we couldn't ever call it ours....so....

what to do. of course having a piece of the american dream means having real estate and in the long run, equity. weddings come and go, but a home (should...BETTER!) lasts forever.

i guess i'm ranting b/c i know so many ppl get it easy. mom and dad takes care of 80% of everything and all they do is make decisions on what and where. fuuuuuucccccckkkkkk tony and i work so hard, i want it to pay off in the end (it will), makes us appreciate what we have.

anyhoo, future tutorial's on how to and all the DIY wedding stuff (assuming we're still marrying!)