So Confused!

Hi Ladies,

OK so FH and I are planning and paying for this wedding on our own. We just went to visit the Fox Hollow this weekend and we adored it and want to have the wedding there. They gave us a great price for a fall 2010 wedding. BM said they just reduced 2010 rates and if we waited for the following year the price would increase about $10-15 pp!

We have enough to put down the deposit but not much more after that at this time. We're currently working on saving. I'm a little afraid of booking for fall of next year w/out first having more $ saved for the payments, but than again I also don't want to pay more if I wait.

My question is how much do you suggest having saved before actually booking the hall? What did you ladies have saved before booking RH? Should we have at least 50% of the total RH bill saved b4 booking?

Sorry so long, I am just massively confused! TIA for your help ladies!

Talk to the hall about a payment plan. I dont think you need to save any certain amount as long as you think youll be able to make the payments when they are due. Good Luck!!

FH and I had 0 saved once we booked the hall lol. I took it out of my personal savings and FH gave me 1/2 from his personal savings. From that moment on we opened a joint account to save for things. We've made our 2nd payment and as of right now we have enough to cover our next two payments for the hall.

I would sit down and calculate how much you guys are able to save p/month after bills and other expenses are paid. That would be your min. contribution and see how it all adds up.

I would talk to the RH about their payment plan first.

FI and I had enough for the deposit plus a little extra saved when we booked the RH for May 2011, but since we booked so early we talked them into pushing back the next payment from 60 days after to 7 months after.

Thanks all for sharing, I feel a bit better being that we're not the only ones that are in this situation. Guess we'll just have to sit down and really crunch the numbers.