Welcome

It's been over two weeks since I got engaged. And although my wedding is about 18 months away, I can't help but obsess over details. I am a planner and always have been. While talking to one of my future bridesmaids about how my now-fiance is a little turned off by the fact that I've already started planning ("I just figured after I proposed that we'd have a couple months to just chill before you started talking about the wedding" he told me in frustration one night), she said that I've spent my entire life planning, and that it was all practice, giving me time to learn and hone my craft for the main event... literally and figuratively.

So I've decided to create this blog with several goals in mind. I hope to use this as an outlet for all my wedding excitement and ideas, of which future husband (FH) may not want to hear until our nuptials are closer, I hope to journal my progress both with planning this wedding, but also getting into shape for the occasion, and I want to share any bargains, tips and deals I find along the way and pass them off to other brides so they can cut corners and save money on their weddings too.

Ever since running into some credit card debt after graduating from college, I have become insanely frugal. Not 'Extreme Cheapskates' frugal, but deal-hunting, coupon-clipping, buying Christmas and birthday presents year-in-advance to get a good deal on Black Friday frugal. I come from a blue collar family, as does FH, and neither of us can imagine spending absorbent amounts of money on a single day, no matter what the meaning. Our friends and family would not want that for us either, and they are not the type to need much to have a good time, just good music and booze, really.

So I am making it my mission to throw the most budget-friendly wedding I can, using my planning and bargain-finding skills. If anyone is reading this and has any suggestions, post requests, or ideas they would like to share with me and/or have posted on this blog, please feel free to email me at: SoCalBargainBride@gmail.com. You can also follow SoCal Bargain Bride on your RSS Reader, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and of course Pinterest.

Hope you have a great day,