I'm realizing that financing the wedding has the potential to be pretty damn expensive. We just crossed another place off the list of possible venues before I even had a chance to blog about it! It was the Captain Whidbey Inn on Whidbey Island. It is an idyllic spot, but I'd have to sell a kidney to have the wedding there. They ask you to reserve the entire inn for a wedding, which comes out to $10,000...choke...gasp...and that's not even including catering, linen fees, plate fees, fork fees (what, you wanted silverware? that's extra), corkage fee, tax, licensing, promise of firstborn child, oxygen fee, bodily waste disposal fee, handling fee, cake cutting fee...the list goes on and on.
Another couple places that I've been researching are the Jenne Farm on Whidbey Island and Fort Worden up in Port Townsend. Our friends got married at Fort Worden and it was beautiful. The Jenne Farm just informed me, however, that they have portapotties available for the reception, because only the 10 guests staying in the house can use the bathroom in the house. WTF? I'm not asking my guests to crap in a porta pottie. Our wedding is not going to be like the friggin' state fair.
After we get the venue secured (if we ever do), then we have to go over the checklist in the wedding planning book that my maid of honor gave me. It looks something like this.
I like the one about the ushers with flamethrowers. That would go nicely with my fire breathing bridal shower cake.
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