Thank you! The best thing is probably…being done planning the wedding! We finally get to enjoy each others company again without all our conversations revolving around RSVPs and money.<\/p>\n
I would have done a practice run with our slideshow. I spent so much time on it and was so excited to show everyone who helped me gather pictures, but we didn’t account for the fact that our venue was so open and the day was so beautiful, it didn’t play well with the lighting. Other than that though, everything was perfect!<\/p>\n
You can have a really nice wedding for much less money than most couples. We found a venue that, although a bit pricey, provided everything. They had a sound system, so we hooked up a playlist instead of hiring a DJ, they provided transportation to and from hotels (which would have been 1\/4 of our budget if we would have done that ourselves), they provided us busboys and servers at a decent price, so we didn’t have to find a caterer to included that.<\/p>\n
We actually had our ceremony on a Thursday, which was very small and private, and we had a professional photographer for that. But our big party was the next day, and saved money by not having her come then. We are extremely lucky that my husband’s grandpa and aunt both really enjoy photography, so we got a lot of nice pictures from that. Although not everyone uploaded to Joy, the page turned out really nice afterwards! I liked it – and yes, I would do it a hundred times over again! I like to save money.<\/p>\n
A friend of mine got married in December and he and his wife used Joy. I remember scrolling through their Q & A thinking it was so much fun to read! So when I was looking for a site, it immediately popped into my head.<\/p>\n
It was so easy to keep track of everything, or, for every decision we made I just logged into that page, updated it and pointed everyone to it. I really do like the Q&A though, it was something fun we could work on together.<\/p>\n
About a week before the wedding we were talking to my uncles about how no one RSVPs and how frustrating it is. We thought it would be nice if there was a nagging feature to spam people who didn’t RSVP until they finally do!<\/p>\n
He’s not here right now for me to ask him – but to me it means that, even if there are ‘flaws’ on the wedding day, it will still be perfect, because it’s not so much about the day, its about everything that comes after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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