Headache and Heart-melt of a Wedding Budget

Doing a wedding budget is very crucial in a wedding preparation specially couple with tight budget. Your budget should have an ART - Attainable, Realistic and Time framed. Attainable in the sense that you and your partner can achieve the total amount you have budgeted in each wedding categories. Realistic means that you have the ability and commitment to meet your budgeted amount for the wedding. Time framed  means your target budget can be met before your big day.

Almost all of the bride out there are having headache setting their wedding budget. Well, I am no exception here. Yesterday I championed the budget preparation for our wedding. Indeed, my head ached but did you know that my heart melted also? Yes! It's all because of my heart melter - my soon to be ex-bf. Why?

The soon to be ex-bf is busy playing online game on his personal computer while the bride of the gaming lover is hooked on her notebook to finish the wedding budget.

Bride of a Gaming Lover: I am doing our wedding budget. I think I can finish this in a week's time.

Gaming Lover: Remember, you have to be beautiful that day.

Bride of a Gaming Lover: Why? (As if she didn't know why, hehe!)

Gaming Lover: Because it's your big day!

I love my soon to be ex-bf, it's his unique way of saying that I should not stressed myself on the wedding preparations.

After some time, soon to be ex-bf asked the status of the budget. I told him that I am just doing the template and I don't think I can finish it that night. But soon to be ex-bf insisted that I should peg an amount already so we will know the estimate we are going to spend on the wedding. In fairness, I have accomplished the wedding budget in less than an hour, thanks to my one month research and blog hopping on wedding sites. 

 Does our wedding budget have an ART?

           Bride of a Gaming Lover: How much do you pledge to save in one cut off?

After the soon too be ex-bf told told an X amount, I have created another sheet for our proposed savings. Our proposed savings is just half of our budgeted amount. Oh my, can we push through the wedding next year?

  Bride of a Gaming Lover: Our proposed savings is just half of our wedding budget?        Can we push it through next year? Or we will wait another year so we can achieve the total budget?

  Gaming Lover: Another year again? Let's finish it. 

Bride of a Gaming Lover: What do you mean, let's finish it huh? 

Gaming Lover: That event. That wedding. Let's push it through next year. NGAYON KA MAGPAKAPOSITIVE! ( Now is the time that you should use your positive thoughts)

It hit me. I always boast my being optimistic to my soon to be ex-bf. But now that we are planning our big day, I am having negative thoughts if we will be able to reach our wedding budget. Soon to be ex-bf is right, we can push it through, we will be married next year, 2013. There's no turning back, no holding back.

Yes, our wedding budget have an ART. We can achieve it (ATTAINABLE), we are committed to achieve it (REALISTIC) and we can meet it before our wedding day (TIME FRAMED). So God help us. :)