Help give the woman I love the wedding of her dreams.

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Hello,

        My name is Travis.  I'm a 25 year old guy trying to help raise money for me and my fiancee's wedding. My fiancee, Elisabeth, and I are planing on tying the knot on May 10th, 2014. As you might have guessed by our age, we are both high school sweethearts! We have been living together for 7 years and plan on getting married in the mountains of North Carolina.

After looking at several "how to plan a wedding on a budget" books (loaned out from the local library), we have found out that the avarage wedding costs about $20,000+!!! For 2 college grads working in jobs that get us from paycheck to paycheck my fiancee has started to get discouraged :(.  We both know that $20000 is way out of the bounds of realistic expectations.  However, with both our families living on opposite areas of the country and us somewhere in the middle, we have only been able to get wedding costs down only so far.  Currently, we have worked our budget down to $11,000. 

I love Elisabeth so much that would do anything to make her happy, I have ran my budget and found out that if I save as much as i can i can only save about $4,000.  Currently, I am on disability with 2 herniated disks in my lower spine, and she works full-time for very little, though we are both very blessed to be employed in the current economy.

Elisabeth has come up with several clever ways to cut costs.  We are getting married on the side of the Blue Ridge Parkway along one of the many overlooks the parkway has to offer.  This has eliminated the cost of booking a traditional wedding venue which she found to average having just the site fee at $5000! 

Thus far, The main costs are food and lodging.  Elisabeth would like to have both families celebrate our marriage, and to do so thought it would be economical to rent a mountain home instead of booking a reception venue which would have cost much more, and then having to rent a hotel. While we are planning only a small wedding, we didn't realize that food and lodging for the wedding party to be so much!

To make matters worse, my bad back and being on disability has lowered our income, so now not only do we have to pay medical bills, we can't put any money towards our wedding fund.

Unfortunetly, due to situations beyond our control our families are unable to help us fund our wedding.  We have asked everyone we can for help, and now I am asking you.

Please help me give the love of my life the wedding of her dreams. I am trying to raise the money before her birthday in October, to surprise her. Today she came home in tears because she feels like she is drowning in her bills and we will end up having to have a courthouse wedding. It breaks my heart to see her cry, even more so over the wedding. I dont know what to say, but thank you for at least reading this. I do not have anything to give, but if you give $100, I'll make sure you get a shout-out from my best man.

Thank You,

Travis

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I will make sure that you get a "shout-out" From my best man, my brother Terry, during his speech.

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