Leave it to Groupon to sell us something we didn’t realize we needed until it landed in our email inbox. Just 5 days after we got engaged, there was a Groupon offer for $70 worth of printing services from Vistaprint for just $17…so we got two of them! Though we plan on creating a lot of our own home/handmade items for both the ceremony and reception, we figured this great bargain might come in handy for return address labels (with our new last name, of course), personalized thank you notes (for the plethora of them that we will eventually be sending out), and maybe some simple save-the-dates (for the sake of convenience).
We then began a somewhat lengthy conversation about how possible it would be to plan the entire wedding using Groupon offers. While the idea obviously sounds fun, and incredibly cheap, we soon realized that this planning model probably won’t work with the type of event we’re sure to have. Since the primary purpose of Groupon is to offer deals on local services, we would basically plan to have the wedding in a Groupon city…which we’re not. We may not be able to plan using 100% Groupon, but you can bet your budget-conscious behinds we will still be scouring those daily deals for anything that might make our special day be a little lighter on our wallets.
Getting started on this whole planning thing,
Brett and Kate
