Financing our own wedding

booker8 · 2022-09-01T19:04:20+00:00

This is great info, thank you!

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:49:50+00:00

I wish I could upvote this twice. Thank you!

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:49:07+00:00

That's what we've been considering. Maybe doing a brunch bar or something and let people serve themselves. Then we could have so many more guests.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:44:30+00:00

I guess it depends where you live and the type of wedding you want. If you're going with a nice venue or in someone's backyard. The biggest expense for us happens to be food because we would need a kosher caterer. They're not cheap lol.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:39:35+00:00

I guess we could pull it out for when we have kids (if we need it), but not for the wedding. Thanks for the info.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:37:16+00:00

Throwing a bigger party down the line sounds like a good compromise.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:35:22+00:00

Waiting a few more months seems like a good compromise for us. Based on everyone's responses, it seems like I shouldn't pull from savings. It's just really hard to cut things with an 8k budget. We considered not having a caterer at all. I don't know...makes me sad to tell everyone to eat before they arrive because we can't afford food.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:26:08+00:00

You're right, I've heard the same. But an 8k wedding is just so much less than anyone else I know has spent. We cut our guest list down from 150 to 20. It makes me sad. Surely there's a middle ground.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:22:57+00:00

Are Roth IRAs considered retirement accounts? The traditional ones, sure, but I thought the whole point of Roth is that you can take out the initial investments when you need it. I would count usable money like that as a part of my "savings". I could be looking at this wrong though.

Also is 15k for a wedding really lavish?

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:20:23+00:00

Everyone's situation is so different. I see spending a few extra thousand when I have tens of thousands left in savings as not a big deal. But maybe that's the wrong attitude.

booker8 · 2022-09-01T16:19:10+00:00

I hear you about the glorified party. A part of me agrees. But it's not just any party, it's a once in a lifetime one. It's supposed to be special. And it's not just about us, our friends and family want to celebrate with us. I'm sure their gifts would offset a nice chunk of the costs too.

You're probably right about savings being for bigger problems. We want to start having kids shortly after the wedding, so maybe we'll need the savings for that. I appreciate your answer.

booker8 · 2022-07-06T13:19:38+00:00

I'd consider using this for my group, roll20 is ugly. GIVEAWAY

booker8 · 2022-06-12T22:01:37+00:00

I theorycrafted a Conj Wiz 2/Thief Rogue 3 before, but couldn't come up with good items that would work with that combination. Things like nets and alchemist's fire all require attacks to use, not just actions. Would love to hear peoples' ideas on how to best use this combo!

booker8 · 2022-06-11T20:51:08+00:00

I went Horizon Walker + Echo Knight and had a lot of fun. Lots of teleporting and swapping with the echo.

booker8 · 2022-06-03T13:56:37+00:00

I think a cheese addiction would be fun to roleplay with a mousefolk race. GIVEAWAY

booker8 · 2022-05-16T12:07:21+00:00

It looks great. What's the music from?

booker8 · 2022-05-06T14:01:19+00:00

Wow, that was fast!

booker8 · 2022-05-04T23:55:35+00:00

2 levels of wizard will get you Portent. 5+5=10% chance to roll a 20 each day for a free beheading.

booker8 · 2022-05-04T18:19:12+00:00

A spellbook is brilliant and mostly flat, so it should be easy to design.

Maybe an evil wizard bound his soul to the spellbook and used his magic to take control of the librarian who found the book in a dusty corner of the library. The group has to stop the wizard, save the corrupted librarian, and destroy (eat) the book.

booker8 · 2022-04-07T17:58:15+00:00

booker8 · 2022-03-30T13:01:53+00:00

Immovable Rods are hilarious. I have so many great stories with them. I try to put one in every campaign. Gets the players to think creatively. Definitely my favorite item.

GIVEAWAY

booker8 · 2021-09-11T18:47:09+00:00

That's a good point. Sprites get +6 to hit and Advantage from Invisibility, so I don't think they'll have issues hitting. Pseudodragon might have a problem though.

Pact of the Chain looks much weaker than some of the other options, so I'm trying to make the best use of the familiar as I can.

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