Vision Expenses

I wear glasses about 80% of the time and contacts the other 20%.  I prefer contacts but like to give my eyes and break and generally only wear them when I'm going out, when I'm active in sports and when watching 3D movies (ever try to get those silly 3D glasses over real glasses - not good). I find that vision benefits are NEVER enough to cover the costs.  I understand (and I should, I'm...

Roaming in the US of A

Our honeymoon is in Vegas...and for those of you that don't know, I'm from Canada and roaming in the States is brutal expensive!  I don't think that Jordan and I need both cell phones and the ipad when we're meant to be just enjoying each other's company ;) That said, it's likely that we'll need...

RSVPs

I was cruising post secret this morning and came across someone's secret that really spoke to me.  In case you don't know about the website, I stole this explanation from Wikipedia: PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail...

CPP & EI Max Out

Last year I wrote about maxing out my CPP and EI contributions and I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that my Christmas budget was going to get a significant boost at the end of the year. A lot of people in my office start talking about their deductions tapering off around...

Nails

...I could get addicted to these Jordan's mom took me to get my nails done last Monday as part of my birthday present.  She know that I wanted to get french tips done for the wedding and have never sported anything like it before.  They are longer then I think I like - but it's only been...

Cost per Head

My maid of honor recently asked me what my cost per head was for the wedding - and it was strange to admit that I hadn't actually figured that out yet.  I promised that I would figure it out and write a post on it. She thought it should include the venue, food, and alcohol costs. Based on that - the cost per head is $51.80 If we included everything it took to put the party together...that...

It's coming...help!?

July 21st... just 16 days until the wedding! After the big day, Jordan and I will be spending a week in Vegas for our honeymoon!  It'll be so much fun! I'm going to do my best to write some good content for the three weeks around the wedding, but I'm not convinced that i'll be able to make it work everyday. If any of my readers would honor me by writing a guest post (with links to your own...

July Check In

Jordan and I are on our second mission to come under $900 in our total variable spnding for a month - as of July 19, 2011 we're in good shape!  Just 17 more days to go before the cut off (August 5th, eek! that's one day before the wedding). Wedding expenses not withstanding, i think we just might...

Wedding Budget Update

A few people have asked or made reference to our wedding budget so i thought that today was a good day to post an updated.  In the image below you'll see what we expected things to cost, what they actually cost,  what we've paid so far and what's left to pay. Anything in red is either...

Wedding Jewelry!

sooo pretty! I picked these gem's up on Saturday morning at Mappin's Jewelry.  I didn't really budget for this...at all...but realized i really wanted some jewelry to wear on the big day. We went to over a dozen stores or so before finding these. The total came to just under $170...

Quick Update

So things have been crazzy this last little while with the wedding planning. My acoustic guitarist for the ceremony and cocktail hour bailed for a better gig (okay fine, it could be a career maker for the guy but i'm still cranky about it) and we still hadn't confirmed our bartenders as...

Do You Groupon?

Groupon seems to be one of the hottest online couponing services out there right now! If you haven't heard of it yet, Groupon offers unbeatable daily deals from top local businesses in over 100 cities. Each deal goes viral and often sells into the thousands.  It's pretty much incredible the discounts that they can offer!   Today's offering (which I'm seriously thinking about) is 72% of...

June Spend Report

I can't believe that another month has gone by already!  It's July 6th - exactly one month from the wedding...crazy.  Anyway, on to the post at hand. Jordan and I tried...and tried pretty hard to keep our spending in check this month.  In fact, in the last 10 months - we spent the very...