The Bridal Show!

So on Sunday, we went to our first bridal show at Green Valley Ranch. I was super excited. We got to see bunch of vendors and venues and we won prizes! We tasted some great food, too. We took quite a few photo booth pictures, as we realized that is a must have for the reception. We also realized that we really like the idea of a country club for the wedding. Another, less happy, realization was the cost of a wedding. From what we are seeing right now, the chances of having a decent wedding for under $10,000 is slim.
On a better note! The things we've won so far (as I'm still getting notifications!):
60-minute in home massage!
Round of golf for 4 at Canyon Gate Country Club (worth $600)
3 day/2 night stay in the Caribbean- Bahamas, Dominican Republic or Mexico
Gift certificate (unknown amount) to Dream Entertainment
$300 gift certificate to American Laser Center
$500 gift card to Amazon!!

About the prizes a little bit, now.
So the vacation prize came with a little, big mistake. To claim our prize, we had to sit through a cooking show for Chef Master. This was both mine and Josh's first attendance to a hard sales pitch. And we fell for it. We bought 4 titanium pots for $1800. BUT! It came with a free professional knife block, a skillet, a lifetime warranty and another 5 day vacation! We got home that night and realized we just spent $1800 on 4 pots! What were we thinking!? So the next morning, we sent in our cancellation notice. Whew!

Although Josh plays golf, I don't and we don't know two other people that do, and we don't have clubs. So our goal is to sell the certificate for about $500, if possible.

I'm sure the Dream Entertainment and American Laser Center are just trying to entice us to us their business and we didn't really win anything there, but I'm still willing to hear what they have to say, see if it is worth it.

The Amazon gift card was by far the best! We got that in the mail yesterday and went on a shopping spree! We both got our school books for the semester and a few other essential items, plus my new camera!!!! Finally! I'm going to have an awesome camera again! Which I'm ecstatic about!

We're thinking if our luck continues likes this, we'll be able to win a good portion of our wedding! So the plan is to attend every bridal show from now until May 2013! But man, I need to print out labels with our information on them, I can't begin to tell you how many times I wrote down our information!