Hi All
Just need to vent, feeling quite emotional and frustrated right now.
Basically we both work full time, got engaged in 2010 and booked our venue in 2011 for a 2014 wedding, but we still can't save enough fast enough!!!!
I have 3 teen plus kids in the house, 2 of which work but don't pay a great deal of rent, so they got it cushy tbh, everything we earn goes into the home and hopefully the wedding fund each month, I know!! Times are hard and everything has gone up, the cost of living alone is crippling me with all the fuel, food and everday things.
So, I've been really lucky so far, I won my gorgeous wedding gown on here, I have a brother in law to be doing photography, a great entertainer friend performing for free, I am a bridal consultant so all our suits were kindly given at cost by my boss and my sister is paying for all our flowers.
I did a boot sale a few weeks ago to buy my invitations which I am making up myself and have been buying 2 votive candles a week for my table decorations ( I have enough now)
My biggest problem is paying for the venue and the food, we have already paid half toward the venue but cannot see us making it,I asked them to reduce the time we have booked( bearing in mind we booked mon to fri as it was cheaper than the weekend and we booked the cheapest week of the year.)
They told us we would still have to pay unless they can fill the slot for wed to fri which if they can do it, we'll be in a better position, saving around £1400 but if they can't we still have to pay the balance.
My fiance is killing himself working all hours he can, all my wages go into the home and I still struggle each month.
We don't go out, we don't drink, we're giving up smoking, I've took his sport away from the tv package and we have nothing left but work and paying out

Its driving me crazy,please tell me there's light at the end of the tunnel because I don't see it right now.
Before we got engaged everything ticked along quite nicely, but lately I go food shopping each week and always something else has gone up in price, my fuel bills are ridiculous and I only use the heating in the evenings.

Ok, sorry guys, it's getting to me and I'm trying to stay calm and positive but today its not happening :(

I think everyone's in the same position at the min, they hike the prices because they know they can and ppl will still pay it because it's not much different anywhere else! I feel lucky that we're able to save enough just because my h2b lives at home still with his mum so is able to save a portion of his wages that way towards our big day, we'd have liked ours sooner but booked for then so we could at least afford to socialise once in a while... I know myself that being stuck inside with no money makes u grumpy sometimes!i just think it's nice to hear that you're not the only one in the same boat sometimes even though it may feel like you are xx