I have to say, there were some issues along the way that made Hannah just want to elope or go to the Justice of the Peace. There were some issues with people, which caused some tears. I won't go into details, because really, this is about how we did all this on the really small budget we had to work with.
There were times I worried that we wouldn't have enough. For example; the deposit on the church; there were things that were worked out for us that made it so much easier to pay the deposit. nThere were a couple of times I nearly had a panic attack. There was a mistake with numbers that had it not been a mistake; would have eaten the money I had budgeted for flowers. I cried, thinking it wasn't going to work. Then the mistake was corrected, it was a mistake, not on our end,but it was taken care of. Before I go any further, I want to give a shout out to Angie, our wedding coordinator at Church.
Hannah's wedding was her first one to do alone, and she did an outstanding job. She was very patient with us. She was very nervous about doing a wedding alone for the first time. I have known Angie since she was in jr. High,and she is an amazing young woman. I really need to give a shout out to the Feather River Men's Center as well. They did the set up and tear down. They are not paid for that, it is volunteer only, and they were awesome. Then there was Santos,and Tara, and Bill, and the list goes on. We have an amazing church staff/church family. That made a huge difference!
The next thing we had to work on was invitations for the wedding. Since the wedding was not too far off, we knew we needed to get moving. My niece offered to buy and design Hannah and Collin's invitations for them as a gift.
That saved us alot of money,and they turned out BEAUTIFULLY! I have attached a picture, hopefully it does some justice to the invitations. I am not sure if it really shows how pretty they are.
