I have missed quite a few days posting to my blog. This is not the best thing to be happening for a brand new blog I know! What is my excuse you ask?
Well, my DH and I were away for an extended weekend to attend a wedding. This is the second wedding we have had the pleasure to attend this year. How does this relate to a PF blog? Well, weddings as we all know are the single most expensive day in anyone's life. It's normally not the cheapest for the guests either!
While I budgeted for last weekends wedding it still leaves a big hole in the amount of money I can apply to our debts this month. The combined cost of attending 2 weddings including gifts, suit hire, accommodation/travel costs, meals while away from home came to $1,082.
We were committed not to add these costs to the credit cards and did a great job of it as well, except the gift for the first wedding earlier in the month. As the couple live in New York (they are Australians and got married here in Melbourne) their gift registry is in the states so we could only use a credit card to buy it. Luckily, we have an American Express charge card which we have to pay the balance off each month. We are treating this like a it was a cash transaction and have put the money aside.
Having said all that it sounds like I am complaining about the money, but you know I wouldn't have missed either wedding for the world. Not for anything. Sometimes you just have to decide what's important in your life and go with it. I also though we did a pretty good job keeping the costs down to the amount we did - it could have been a lot worse!
One thing I will say though, having this blog and committing to reducing debts does make you plan and decide what is a fair outlay for these events. Being in control of how much we spent on the weddings by using cash where possible is a great feeling. Not adding any more to the banks coffers. Priceless!
I'd love to hear your comments on this post
2 comments:
Attending an overseas wedding is never cheap, but it looks like that you done a pretty good job keeping the cost down. We attended a wedding in England a few years back and managed to rack up about $2500 each. Ouch!
It was back in my younger days when I thought I was invincible, how foolish!
By the way, great articles on the blog so far. Keep it up.
Thank you for your kind words tehnyit, I will try.
Yes, we have done the same as you in years gone by. As a couple who has travelled at lot in our lives we are often invited to weddings etc overseas and have had some horrendous credit card debts when we came home. But it's always such fun when you are there isn't it! Fortunately we are a lot more careful with the funds these days.
I enjoy really your blog and read it regularly.
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