Our Big Fat Cheap Wedding
Frank May
April 1, 2002
If you drink gourmet coffee, stay away from the office coffeepot. If you like a well-crafted ale, avoid Budweiser. These tasteful principles may be common sense, but they had nothing to do with the way we planned our wedding. We both typically go for quality over quantity. We will save up for the Natuzzi leather sofa before we will buy a whole set for the same price at the local Rooms-to-Go. But when you marry limited resources with unbridled ambition, you are going to need creativity. And that principle had a lot to do with our wedding planning. I proposed to Gina after a lifetime of knowing her and a short three months of proper courtship. I can't say that she knew for sure that it was coming, but she must have sensed something. I certainly found myself becoming more peculiar and anxious, especially when it came to items of symbolic importance like the engagement ring. After drawing the design on a piece of paper, I chose platinum as the metal and started scouting for the right stone. I had always made fun of people who would lay down a couple grand for a rock, but here I was peering under a microscope looking for defects that no one would ever see, thinking, "She is the only one, and this is forever." So the debate about priorities and quality was under way before the wedding was confirmed. After Gina accepted my proposal, we set a date-three months away-and set to planning. The first thing that we did was not (and here I would recommend that all would-be wedders tune in) determine our budget. Nor did we select our honeymoon destination. Instead, we talked about what mattered most to us-what would last, and what would not, from our wedding day. We came to a few conclusions. The marriage is king, we decided, and the wedding ...
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