"Okay…well I picture my wedding on the beach. Perhaps we can rent a beach house, the order log Ms. Gribble gave us said that renting a house is $1000 and the area of on a beach is another thousand. Then I want the finest wine, that's $5,000 and then catering is $3,000. Also there's my wedding dress which will cost $10,000 and that brings us to $20,000!" Portia said while going through the fake wedding catalog Ms. Gribble had given the groups.
The catalog had everything you could imagine for a wedding and what the estimates would be. Like a small wedding gown is $500 while the one Portia wanted is $10,000 which is the biggest gown in the booklet. The requirements for the wedding project is to have a place, invitations, catering, the wedding dress, and the wedding suit.
"Though Portia, what about the invitations? I think we should the camouflage one!" Michael said.
"What? A faded pink wedding dress does not mix with camouflage!" Portia argued.
"Well it's my wedding too! And I want camouflage invites!" Michael argued back.
"Fine…but the camouflage is going to be pink." Portia grunted.
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"So…$17,000 Tim, how do you want to spend it?"
"Well I was thinking we could maybe have our wedding at a local art museum or something. Maybe at a performing arts center, and I could make a mural to be put behind us." Tim suggested.
"Really? That sound's really cool! Also it's in our budget the catalog says a performing art center is about $5,000 and the art supplies you will need costs $500. The dress I want is $1000 if that's okay."
"Yeah that's fine, the tux I want is $500. Then the invites what kind should they be? I kind of like the jazz-Harlem renaissance invites. Their white with brown and green bows on the outside, but on the inside white with regular black cursive." Tim said.
"That's actually…a really good idea. I love art and performing and the Harlem renaissance is the most influential era with jazz and swing developing." Keesha commented. "Yes we should definitely have a Harlem renaissance theme."
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"Hey Wanda, how about we have a baseball theme! Or better yet, a sports theme!" Ralphie asked enthusiastically while sitting next to Wanda at their desks.
"A sports theme? Well hey…some of the wedding dresses are sport themed. This one here looks good to use!" Wanda said. She showed Ralphie a women baseball uniform from the '50s. It was pinstriped red on top of white and had the bottom end at the knees. The top of the dress was collared like a polo without sleeves.
"Oh my gosh! That's the most awesome dress I've ever seen! It would look great on you!" Ralphie said to Wanda while blushing.
"It's in our budget too at a great price of $600 dollars. Leaving $2000 for catering, and hey! How about the wedding be set in a baseball park, we could get married over the home base." Wanda asked.
"Jeeze, I never knew how romantic you were Wanda, that sounds perfect! Maybe my tux can be a baseball uniform, how crazily perfect does that sound?" Ralphie asked.
"Well…that would over do it a bit. How about you wear a black tux and a baseball cap?" Wanda grunted nicely.
"Hm…yeah that sound's good too…on the condition the tie is red to match your dress."
"I wouldn't have it any other way Ralphie." Wanda smiled at him…for a while.
Ralphie felt himself starting to blush from the awkward but nice silence between them. "Well a baseball park is $7,000 and the tux is $700, and our budeget is $12,000 so that means we have $1700 left for invites!"
"How about the invites be baseball plates?" Wanda asked.
"I love the way you think Wanda!" Ralphie said smiling, feeling achieved.
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"$22,000! Think of the animals we could save on the planet with that money!" Phoebe wined while sitting next to Arnold.
"Yeah, to bad it isn't real money to spend. Though that sounds like a good idea, a going green themed wedding! We could use recycled products for the wedding." Arnold suggested.
"I love it Arnold! We could use plates made of elephant poo, that costs $300 and then the food can be all organic…that catering costs $5000, and then my dress can be this one made out of leaves for $500!" Phoebe said excitedly.
"A dress out of leaves?" Arnold asked shocked.
"I'm just kidding Arnold, I'll get a dress made out of cotton. Leaves would die to easily and turn an ugly brown. Though I would like to have a gold dress…it would accentuate the beauty of autumn! Maybe have a goring green- autumn theme! Green is associated with fall so it would match up perfectly!"
"Gold? Hm…you sure? Maybe a crème white instead of snow white. Crème is more wedding than prom gold."
"Crème…well that works too, and look in the catalog, here's a crème white. It's gorgeous!" Phoebe responded. "And it's only $3000."
"Well it's in the budget, if you like it, get it." Arnold said side smiling to Phoebe.
"Okay…now about your tux…I'm thinking lime green spandex."
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"7,000 dollars…that's a pitiful budget compared to everyone else's." Carlos grunted.
"My parent's spent $6,000 on their wedding and have been together for 20 years…and still going strong." DA retorted.
"Aren't your parents doctors? Why didn't they spend more? Aren't they paid good?" Carlos asked curiously.
"That's none of your business!" DA retorted angrily.
"Fine…well what do you want out of your "dream wedding" with $7000 big ones?" Carlos asked at unease.
"I just want a simple wedding. I want it to be as inexpensive as possible, you know save up the rest of the money for future projects." DA said bluntly.
"Wait…you have a point. Everyone is doing something off the wall with their money. Why don't we do something so simple and cheap..it's off the wall as well." Carlos said smirking.
"What does that mean Carlos?" DA asked suspiciously.
"We elope. Think about it! We need invitations- we have zero to send out so it's cost is free, for the place we can just have the wedding at a small chapel in Vegas, your dress could be whatever, our catering could be us celebrating at a fancy restaurant, and my suit can be whatever too!" Carlos said brilliantly.
"Well, I still want our wedding to be romantic, why not a backyard garden wedding where only our main family shows up and close friends. We could elope but I want something sweet and romantic." DA sighed dreamily.
"That's what the honeymoon is for." Carlos said smiling mischievously only to slapped on the arm by DA hard. "Okay, okay…but if we did all that, it'd still be expensive. We'd have to cater the guests and such."
"Your right…we should elope. Though our location of the wedding will not be in Vegas. How about by our preacher at church, and our location can be on a pier."
"Yeah…that sounds nice." Carlos said smiling staring at her.
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"Class, you definitely have creativity and great ideas, however the idea of the project is to be realistic and thinking about the future. You all receive a A- on this project except DA and Carlos, they were the only one's to consider the future. Intuitive and creative…A+. Also it's been shown that couples who have spent less on marriages have lasted longer together. Before the bell rings class, tomorrow we will talk about communication." Ms. Gribble ranted.
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Well I don't know where this story is going to or even worth continuing. It's so confusing. Well I did the best I could on this chapter, hope it turned out decent.
Also I just want to note that Michael is a redneck if you didn't figure that out already. Though camouflage wedding invites sure does sound awesome!
