win my dream wedding

Never in a million years would we have enough money to have a dream wedding. If we could win a free wedding we would be in heaven. We have a year and a half old daughter and I want her to have parents that are married. We have been dating for almost 9 years. We want to get married on our 10 year anniversary. It would be a dream come true.

Wow.. that would be nice.. Weddings are so expensive nowadays.. and its so easy to go over budget. My fiance and I got engaged on Valentines Day, we had been dating for over 6 months prior to that and had been best friends for 5 years or so… And now that we’re planning, we realize its going to be so hard to pay for things. We started off by making a joint account wedding CD, depositing 100 a month on the high interest account, the CD will last a year and the final amount in it will cover our caterer, but little else… And there is a ton more to cover… I wish we could win the money to cover it… We are both in college, so we don’t really have money to begin with… but a wedding we’ll never forget is both of our goal <3

My fiancé and I have been dating since I was 12 years old and he was 16 years old (sorry mom and dad). I met my fiancé through my step-sister one day after school. She had to stay after school for some tutoring. She asked him if he would take us home when she was finished, he agreed. So while she was being tutored he and I walked the halls of Thomasville High School for hours talking about everything. When it came to the topic of age I kind of told him a little fib that I was 15 years old instead of 12. Eventually he found out my real age and my parents found out about our age difference and we had to break up. He dated other people and so did I. We always remained friends throughout every relationship and eventually got back together when I was about 16 years old. Since then we’ve been inseparable. Throughout our friendship and relationship he has helped me rebuild my relationship with my mother. He’s secretly driven me to Gastonia and Winston-Salem, NC to see my mother who was recovering from a drug addiction. I am 24 now and he is 28. He proposed to me 2 years ago on one of our regular summer trips to Myrtle Beach, SC. We were walking on the waters edge around sunset. The sun was just setting on the water. It was right out of a fairytale. He pretended to trip and fall. When I went to help him up he was on one knee holding a beautiful white box. Everything after that was a complete blur except the words, “Will You Marry Me?” and of course I said, “Yes!” I had become completely oblivious to everyone that was around us until I heard cheers of, “Congratulations!” and people clapping. That was the happiest day of my life! Every year since then in September we’ve tried to get married. We’ve set dates, we’ve had meetings with wedding coordinators, and we’ve visited numerous wedding locations. But, it seems every time we think we are going to finally walk down that isle as husband and wife something happens to put our plans on the back burner. If it wasn’t his college debt, it was my family or his family having an unexpected emergency, which has completely depleted our wedding savings. So I believe that we deserve this wedding because of all the things that we’ve been through we need a happy beginning to our lives and after almost 10 years of being together don’t you think it’s about time we got married (insert smile here).

My boyfriend kevin and I got together by accident.We are both divorcies and were down on our luck. Kevin was friends with my step-sister and had a room for rent when I was looking for one. Between his 13-hour days and my 3 jobs we were able to start to get to know eachother. We decided after two months to try a relationship, I was hesitant because I felt unworthy, but we decided that trying couldn’t hurt and that it would satisfy our companionship needs. A few months later we found out that we were pregnant and through careful consideration we chose that we would go through with the pregnancy and keep the baby, thank god we did! We have now been together for just over two years, our son is 14 months, and kevin has a 7 year old and a 5 year old from his previous marriage. Before our son was born it was my wish to have an informal commitment ceremony before our higher power and our families for the sake of the baby, but I didn’t win that one. I had gotten ill durring my pregnancy and had to quit two of the jobs, the third on fired me two days before I was there a full year because I had my son, it’s legal trust me, I filed complaints and reports but that is all I can do. So I have been unemlpoyed since our son was two-weeks old and we have struggled month to month to keep things going. I am a part time student online, just started a Multi-Level Market venture and am on the hunt for a job. Relationship wise I still wake up in the mornings and think I am dreaming, statistically we should have never made it this far but every day is a blessing. We are still getting to know eachother, that will never end, and with me being 7 years younger I should have more of a social drive…but that’s all him. We even eachother out on so many levels. We have both learned from the past and have communicated things into this relationship that we didn’t have in the past. It is so easy for either of us to state our opinions or do what we want to for a night without the other getting upset. The respect and communication surpasses any expectations and neither of us could be happier. We have not gotten married because of our finances. Right now we are stuggling to stay no more than a month behind and with the school year starting up we know finances will be worse. We don’t realy want a lot, he wants a nice band and I want a solitare with a simple band as far as rings go. June would be amazing in a floor length off-white sundress. We have talked about just a simple very very small ceremony and then when it can be afforded a large reception with all our friends and family. His first wedding was 5k, mine was 2k, and we know we will not be able to afford that much anytime in the near future. If I win enough money for my dream wedding, it would simply be a blessing. I’m tearing! It would be a blessing and I don’t know how many others would be as appreciative, I would even be extatic if I was to split the winnings with 9 others! My dream is to be married to the man I wake up with every morning, who I know will be there every night, and who I can trust to grow old with. I thought I was in love before…I never knew that this kind of love existed until Kevin came into my life!

My fiance and I have been together for a year and a half. Both of us have kids and have been divorced. I belive we should win do to a lot of circumstances that truely make us beleive that God brought us together. For instance, my oldest son and his son are just 6 months apart, not only that,they are in the same grade, take simular classes, and have the same careers in mind way before Donn and I ever met. Another thing, Donn’s middle name is Gene, and my middle name is Jean. We have been together since the FIRST time we met, he totally completes the other half of me that I have missed out in my first marriage.

5 years ago i went on a trip to Italy. i wasn’t going to go but my mom told me she had a dream and i had to go. so we took out a loan and cashed in my bonds and i went….and that is where i met my other half..Michael. he ended up being on the same tour as me and we hit it off right away. our first kiss was on the beach in Rimini and there has been fireworks ever since. i would never be able to be without him michael is my everything. we have been through so much together within these past few years… this past march when i was diagnosed with thyroid cancer michael went over and beyond in taking care of me and helping me through it. every time i was feeling really bad he would be right there by my side ~putting a smile on my face. he is my strength, my angel and everything in between. going through that really brought our relationship to a whole new level and made us realize that we cant live without the other and not to make even the slightest moment for granted. while i was sick he went out to buy my ring and proposed to me on the beach in florida at sunrise. it was the most happiest and romantic moment of my life. winning our dream wedding would help us out sooo much andwe would be able to have all our family there to share in our love for each other.

I want this more than anyone else. And I think I deserve this. I am a good person with nothing. My fiance and I live on our own, working full time and we still aren’t able to make ends meet. We want to get married and have the wedding of our dreams. But with money being so tight. It almost seems now we aren’t going to be able to have a wedding at all. My fiance and I work and only work just to try and make ends meet, I stopped going to school because we couldn’t afford rent. Every month we end up having to ask family for money. And one day they won’t be able to help us anymore!
I think that my fiance and I deserve this!

My fiance and I met a little over two years ago. We were complete opposites working at a bar together. He was the good looking bartender that every girl was coo-ing over. I couldn’t see any more qualities than his good looks, had doubted that he was the type who could carry a stable relationship and just wasn’t interested. I was the cash-handling girl and often kept to myself. I also didn’t have the time to consider being I was running nearly 75+ hours of work a week at multiple jobs. We never gave each other the time of day being I felt it was an intrusion on our work. I would see him and he would see me regularly and the most we exchanged for more than half a year was plain and simple small talk or hellos. I didn’t even think he was interested. There was one night where I told him I was planning on moving out of state and I was trying to save a little bit of money. He told me I shouldn’t move, and that he’d find me a reason not to. I asked him, “Why shouldn’t I move? Are you going to find me a boyfriend?” He said yea and smiled. He couldn’t stop smiling. So I looked around at all his friends and crossed each of them off my list. No thanks. They were regulars, they were my customers. Eventually I shifted my position from cash handling to bartender. I asked him to train me, which he was willing. Late long stressful nights after work our bartending crew would get together around two a.m. to eat soup and just talk. There he didn’t talk to me either. Yet when we started working together more, we started chatting up a storm. It was oblivious to me that he was interested, so I invited him to take me fishing. Something I was doing on the side, but couldn’t quite get the hang of it. He had told me he had been doing it all his life and that was his only way to de-stress. Well, we started fishing together. His friends would always come. Yet I found it to be oddly entertaining and interesting that I finally found a great guy friend. Instead tables turned and one day we started getting closer. It was salmon season of 2006. I don’t know the day we started dating, because it was never official. We bonded over fishing and shared stories of our families. We were rather similar contrary to what I had assumed. Two salmon seasons later we’re still together. We’re in our mid 20s and are from two very traditional families. His family loves the idea of us getting married, mine hasn’t quite decided yet, but I know they would be very happy for us. I would love to marry this man. He strikes every last nerve in me, but he also accepts that I do the same to him. We have great times together and always go back to our fishing trips. I would love a wedding which reflects our best times. Something by the water, something simple, and very romantic. We live next to lake Michigan, our place. I’m thinking spring 2009 wedding. He’s thinking let’s just rush it and be simple. We’re two very simple people who could probably out-resource everyone else even if we had a few bucks in our pockets. Yet I would like enough time to plan do it up a notch. I think we deserve a white 3-4 tier cake, our families to experience this for the first time and appreciate the love that goes into it. I would love enough time and enough finances to dream up every last wedding detail rather than settle for the culturally acceptable wedding which we have, which is normally a household gathering, a meal, and a lot of family lectures. This would be a great balance. Perhaps one of the best things I could ask for in my life. I’ve done long relationships, years and years worth, but I know he’s the one for me. He’s a good challenge, he’s smart, he’s funny, he’s weird yet practical. I’d love something I can look back and share w/my children one day. I love that his parents and my parents have such strong relationships. We’ve been guided by great examples and this would be the first white wedding either of our big big families would get to see. Knowing how hard my parents have struggled growing up and living in a war-torn country and moving to the states to work restlessly I don’t want to put any of this on them, which I understand wedding finances usually fall on parents. I would love to see our parents just sit back and see that first dance between my parents and his parents who have been together for nearly 40 yrs at most. Neither pair has ever in their lives even held one another for a dance. I’d like to give them that opportunity. Overall, I’d like a wedding my family can remember. I know they already trust we’re able to love each other unconditionally and love by good morals and values. This would be a dream come true and it’s funny, because I don’t have time dream too much.

I just got engaged a few weeks ago. I was CONVINCED I could plan a wedding on a budget. Well, after doing all my research, I feel defeated. The “industry” makes it impossible. My fiance was out of work for a year do to layoffs at his company. He was able to get a new job this past November, but by then our debt had mounted with only me working. We took out consolidation loans and with those and our house we are essentially paying two mortgages. In January I began having “bad luck” medically and because of all the treatment I needed I was forced to leave my job, and in turn lose the insurance. Bills are mounting again, falling behind. We’re still paying old debt, a mountain of old debt and we can’t keep up. And now the wedding. I am stuck because I want a wedding, just not more debt. I just want the people I love to be there when I marry the man I love and then I want a big freaking party. Thats it.

June 7, 2008 was the best day of my life so far. I thought it was the beginning of one of the best years of my life, planning my beautiful wedding. The first obstacle was the fact that I’m in medical school, and it was nearly impossible to find vacation time for a wedding. That obstacle was nothing compared to what came next.
Two weeks before my engagement my parents had been arguing ALOT. They would call me to act as a mediator, and the stress kept me up at night and kept me from studying for some very important finals. When I got engaged, they said it was the best news that they had heard in a long time. I was still optimistic about what was to come.
Once I came home for a visit, my parents were still arguing and told me that they were getting a divorce. My father called me one day at work and told me that if my mother left him we would be financially devastated and there was no way he could possibly pay for a wedding. I was crushed. I had already started planning, even on a small budget, and that was now a waste of time.
I have student loans from college and medical school that make it impossible for me to think about paying for a wedding. My fiance is just starting out and he is saving every penny so that we can buy a house.
I love my parents, and I want them to be a part of my wedding and wedding planning.
This money would make a world of difference for myself, my fiance, and my parents! Please help!