My dad is way too funny with this wedding planning stuff! Mostly because he has no idea about anything to do with pricing! Apparently he missed the number one wedding rule where every price is quintupled when the word “wedding” comes into play.
Today I was on the phone with a cake baker, trying to figure out when I could do a tasting with them. Afterwards, my dad says, “Oh, the cake? Don’t even worry about that! That’s not going to be a huge part of your budget… it’s such a small thing.” And I was like, “What?! We need a cake that feeds at least 150 people!” And he says, “That’s going to be, what? $100?” My mouth just dropped, and I replied, “Try more like at least $400… part of the reason I’m considering cupcakes!”
That reminds me of the time when I was panicking because DJ’s in the Boston-area think that $1000 is “affordable” for 5-hours of switching CD’s. Meanwhile, my dad was in his own world, and while I was contemplating laptoping my event, he says to me, “A DJ is only going to cost about $300 tops! I’m sure I could find much cheaper than that too… there’s a lot of competition!”
Geeze, I should just hand over the vendor-hiring to my dad! He seems to have quite a few cheap connections! Add the caviar that he wants at my wedding on top of all that!
