Weddings are crazy expensive, and apparently Seattle is one of the more expensive places in the country to get married. The average Seattle wedding is $22, 537, and that's on the lower end of the averages I found online for Seattle weddings! (Highest? $37,000!) Not only is that equal to a year of school tuition/a house downpayment/a new car, but that just seems like a ridiculous amount to spend on one day of your life. I mean, if you can afford it, great, but there is so much I would rather spend it on if we had the option. Still, even then, spending that much wasn't an option for us. We were paying the largest chunk of the wedding ourselves, and we were committed to getting married as soon as we could, and having the wedding we really wanted, without going into debt. Obviously, this meant tight control of our budget, and saving, saving, saving.
And you're saying "Awesome, Brianna,... but, what does that have to do with the super cool getaway car I saw you in on your wedding day?"
Well, like I said, we budgeted and we prioritized. We spent the biggest chunk of our budget on things that mattered (feeding our guests, the church fees, our photographers) and planned to spend very little on things that didn't matter (transportation, mostly). Somewhere along the line, we realized driving ourselves on our wedding day wasn't an option, but we didn't have room in the budget for a limo or the usual wedding day transportation choices. My friend Dana offered to loan us her super cute red Prius, and we thought maybe our best-man or someone else could drive us. Another idea was to use a taxi...
Cute, right? But, even better, there's a Green Taxi company in Seattle. All the cabs are green Priuses! So, not only would our transportation be super cheap (just a taxi ride), but it would also be a way to make our wedding a little greener. It's a win-win!
However, in the weeks leading up to our wedding, we realized we did have some money to spare in our budget. Not enough to hire a videographer (and anyway, Kenneth's uncle, a cameraman for the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Devil Rays, said he would do it for us), but enough for something. We landed on transportation, and Kenneth took on the job of making it happen. His choice, the 1950s Rolls Royce, was a TOTAL surprise to me when we left the church. I was shocked we could afford it, and that he had picked such a perfect car. I was expecting a simple little town car... not this pretty thing...
*Wow... In a million years, I didn't think it could take this many posts to recap our wedding. Oh well. Here we are with blog post 15.
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