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We choose a 5pm basic ceremony with a few coworkers in attendance which was conveniently scheduled right before a optional company cocktail hour which started at 6pm. I got my dress on craigslist for $280 and spent $70 on alterations. The dress had never been worn or altered so I got a great deal. It was a basic cream colored strapless gown with quite a bit of stitching and beads / crystals on it.

We bought two sets of roses at Costco at a cost of $30 total. Two dozed orange roses and two dozen pink roses. I then picked the best six of each, cut down the stems to just the right length and then wrapped the stems in a white ribbon. I really have to brag on my flower job because it came out really, really nice and I received multiple comments on it.

My shoes I had found on the discount rack at DSW (what a great store) and I paid around $30 for them, I don’t quite remember the exact amount as I got them awhile ago but it was around $30.

Our wedding rings didn’t come with any great discount unfortunately but we got what we wanted. Him wanted the silver and titanium band that matched the ring that I had asked for and received my previous birthday. I wanted a diamond ten stone band that looked really nice with my engagement ring. Both were simple and reasonably priced and came to about $1000 total.

Our cocktail hour gave us an opportunity to mingle with everyone was free as it was company sponsored. It was so much fun to show up to the cocktail hour in our wedding attire and see quite a few employees do a surprised double take because they were unaware of our wedding plans that weekend.

We had dinner reservations at 7:30pm in the main dining room which was absolutely elegant and the food was wonderful. The management sent us some champagne on the house and a coworker and his wife sent us some more champagne as well so we spent absolutely nothing on drinks. The dinner was covered by the company so our five course meal also cost us nothing. The was live music in the dining room with a dance floor so we completed our “first dance” while a couple hundred people looked on.

We were originally booked into a standard room but when we arrived it seemed that the air conditioning wasn’t working in our room so once they determined that they couldn’t get the AC working they upgraded us to a suite. The suite was really beautiful and had a wonderful view of the grounds form the balcony. We ordered breakfast in on Sunday morning (on the company) and ate outside at the table and chairs that was on the balcony. It really was the prefect way to eat breakfast on the first day of your married life!

We still have to meet up with our local photographer to take our formal wedding pictures to get the shots we want but that’s already paid for and in the meantime my coworkers took a couple hundred pictures for us with their digital cameras.

It may not have been conventional but we had a great time, got married in a great location and didn’t break the bank!