Should we push through or just call it? We're $24k short for our wedding in august..
Hi everyone, we’re hoping to get some outside perspective because we’re feeling pretty stuck right now.
We’ve been planning to get married on August 18th this year. It’s also my birthday, so it’s a big deal to us and we’ve been really set on making that date work. But when we loooked at our actual savings today and the numbers are honestly a lot worse than we thought.
Our total budget is $35,000 (our budget plan and saving plan) but we only have $10,500 saved so far. That’s only 30% of the way there, and with less than 4 months left, the math is starting to look impossible. We’ve been so busy with the "fun" parts of planning that we didn't keep a close enough eye on the actual numbers until now. (our bad)
My fiancé is still convinced we can just hustle and make up that $24,500 gap in time, but I’m terrified of the stress and the risk of going into debt. Saving $6,000 a month just feels like a huge reach.
Are we being totally delusional? Has anyone here actually managed to pull off a save like that this close to the date, or should we just bite the bullet, lose our $2,500 deposit, and move everything to 2027?
