The last 6 to 8 months have been hard. Having a death in the family two months ago and my helping my family with the still on-going related issues has been a challenge. It doesn't help that financially I've been paycheck to paycheck and I'm thankful for my family and friends who have been supportive and there for me.

And even though I've been able to keep the lights on, I have a wedding to think about, plan, and oh yeah, pay for.

( Being chaste vs living in sin... )

(So this next section was what got eaten by LJ... MRRRR!)

( Is $6000 enough for a wedding? )

Then there's my Beau's side of things. He's saving what he can. He's in his last semester of school and has just weeks left to get his last classes all done. He's looking into substitute teaching and doing Voice Over work, as he's been told by many a person that he'd do well there. It's a waiting game.

His parents have been supportive to the extent that their daughter's recent announcement of being a bride to be this July has allow them to be. They gave us my Beau a guest list with over 120 couples on it. Told him to pick his nearest and dearest, and just go with that.

I won't pretend to be dumb and see that they are not offering any help in this or making it any easier for us/him in our plans. The only caveat has been when his father gave him (us) advice on having a Non-Mormon ceremony so that we are lawfully wedded first and in a year's time, get Sealed in the Temple. (He seemed to understand best that we were struggling with how to best handle that. I'm just glad his Dad gave him the heads-up!Advise.)

(Note: My FILs are not too keen on me and him, because of me. My age, my weight, and my religious disposition when we started dating. There's more, but that's for starters. I know many other women have this challenge, so I just include it here for a heads up reason.)

( The idea behind or big deal of holding a wedding and reception )
Yes, I know we could postpone things, but again, for my batch of experience, living apart makes things a bit more difficult all around.

Discuss? Advise? Edit: LJ just ate part of my post and I can't figure out where it went. Dang it!. Mrrr!