Right now my fiance and I are planning a wedding. We just got engaged January 19th. The date of the wedding is already set for April 12th. We are having a shotgun wedding!
The only problem is, the shotgun is not wielded by her angry father pointed at me because she's pregnant! She is not and even if you suspect this just wait 9 months and the truth will come out (or not come out). The shotgun is the limited time we have to pull it all together by April 12th.
Thankfully, my wife to be is a working, fantastic dynamo who does not do what she can do today tomorrow, she's already done today's tasks yesterday. She Christmas shops in January, not for belated gifts but for next Christmas. God Bless Her!
However, Planning a wedding in two months has put her tasky skill set to the test. Here is a calculation for everyone that has planned a wedding during the internet age. How much time did you spend searching the web planning it? Countless hours, much of it fruitlessly weeding through lists of vendors that don't match your price target or geography.
So, why not hire chacha.com guides to do the searching for you? Or could you somehow crowdsource the wedding plans? Afterall, planning a wedding is a hard solution. Pleasing a bride to be (known as bridezilla) is even harder? The point is, you know time is tight when it would be better to pay someone $5 an hour to search the internet for you. That is, I advise doing the ChaCha before the wedding.
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Congrats on the engagement and all the wedding planning (before graduation no less!).
I agree with you about paying someone out there to search for you. Being a bridesmaid to several brides I'm going to tout the wonderful benefits of networking with other brides to reduce the unfortunate wedding side-effect resulting in the "bridezilla" phase.
Netbride.com is a great place to order dresses and gowns. More fantastic sites as I remember them :-)
Sad. Another bachelor of long standing cashing in his chips and walking away from the table. You hate to see it, but in a way it steels the rest of us to keep the faith. You fought the good fight,
DugCanRead, but for you, the war is over.
Congrats on the engagement!
Although I would agree with you to some respect about crowdsourcing the wedding planning so you can cut time in browsing sites, as I am myself planning a wedding too, I have to say that bridezilla or not, wedding planning is unique for everyone and maybe crowdsourcing isn't the solution here... Unless you are the groom and don't have much of a preference either way except for pleasing your "bridezilla-to-be" ;-p I, myself, prefer to browse sites myself rather than have someone else choose for me what they think I might want... but that might be more of a preference issue since I'm the type of person that has decided to plan the wedding myself rather than hire a wedding coordinator ;-p
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