Hi all,
I'm new to WeddingWire, primarily because of this post. I'm super worried my wedding is going to be tacky. We don't have anything set in stone yet, but we've been talking a lot about what we want and while he isn't as bothered, I'm really worried. I've been getting a lot of weird messages from vendors in my area and other people when talking about my wedding and what we want, and it has me super on edge.
Firstly, we're working on a VERY limited budget. We really can't afford to go over 10 grand, and we'd like to stay under if at all possible. We're very unwilling to go into debt over our wedding, considering the fact that I'm already buried in student loan debt. And it's been really hard to find anyone in the Pittsburgh area who will take anything less than 10k just for the venue, food, and drinks.
Here are currently all the things I've been told are tacky about my wedding:
Having it in a fire hall or banquet hall, having it literally any place except a ballroom, not having anyone walk me down the aisle or dance with me in place of my dad, having either BBQ or Mexican catering (which we want) rather than a fancy catered meal and just that as a late night snack, having only beer and wine and a couple signature drinks rather than a fully open bar, having a memorial table, having sheet cakes for guests rather than them eating from the big tiered cake, doing a dollar dance (which ive never EVER been to a wedding without), having a honeymoon registry, having a halloween themed wedding, not inviting my coworkers, not wearing a full length wedding gown....
The list goes on and on and on. I'm really working myself into a frenzy over this to the point where I've said to my fiance on multiple times that we should just elope because I'm too stressed about trying not to be tacky, and make everyone happy... so I'm asking for advice. Which of these are people just being picky or trying to upsell me things, and which of these are things that are ACTUALLY tacky and bad to do.
Thanks in advance.
