[rescue] Sigh

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> $10-$25k new?  That sounds like and Indy or O2.  I don't think that
> Indigo2s or Octanes or Octane2s were usually available new for that
> little, although the new Fuel is.

I2 definitely was under $25k at the low end.

> We'll see how things go.  I was trying to put together a finacial plan
> for the coming 9 months, but there are a lot of uncertain things in
> it that make it hard to plan well.  For instance, they are talking
> about tuition increases for the fall of $500 or more, etc.  And I want
> to ask my girl friend to marry me soon, and that will take a lot of
> money to have a wedding, but I have no clue what it would actually
> be.  And so on.

I hate dispensing off-topic advice here, but my feeling is that:

The wedding is for everyone else's benefit.
The honeymoon (and after) is for both of you.

Weddings are a bit like wedding rings.  You can spend as much as you want
(and many people will encourage you to) but what you get out of it has
nothing to do with money.  Spending thousands of dollars doesn't "prove"
anything.  Spending years and years does.

No matter what you do, it will be a blur when you are in it.  My wife and
I staggered through our wedding in the throes of the flu, so in a way I'm
glad we didn't overspend on it.  :)

Best of luck to you and yours.

-James