We had an incredible day and be warned, I have a LOT to say!

Summary

• October 2021, Downtown Chicago (planned from the east coast)
• Together 9 ½ years, engaged for two years. We were going to marry after one year of engagement but postponed due to COVID.
• # invited: 238, no kids
• # expected: 147
• Wedding party: 10 (five bridesmaids + five groomsmen)
• Initial budget: $65K, excluding rings
• What was important to us: photography, music, guest convenience (in the city center), attire
• Final cost: $73,848 paid by us ($32K), bride’s parents ($32K = venue), and the groom’s parents ($10K). Postponing a year helped us save, too.
• The delta variant led us to about a 50% decline rate. Our date was also on a Friday.
  • 120 RSVP'd yes, 118 attended (everyone was vaccinated, but one couple dropped out the day before due to exposure). 60% were from out of town. At this size, I felt a bit rushed to talk to everyone and eat, but we were happy to see everyone and wouldn’t have cut our guest list. It was a fun party and everyone enjoyed getting together after so much time in isolation.
• pics + budget chart

Costs

Venue(s): $33K

Church Ceremony: $1,185 for the ceremony fee, marriage license, and marriage prep

Reception Venue: $32,088 including the food & beverage minimum, service fee, tax, tables, dance floor, china, linens, flatware, glassware, staff, morning-of food, champagne toast, cake, sweets table, late-night bites, and night-of accommodation. We felt this gave us a good bang for our buck & expected guest count pre-Covid, and the beauty of the space made me feel comfortable having minimal floral.

• Because my parents reactivated their membership at the venue for our wedding, we received a slightly better rate ($160pp), but by paying membership dues over two years, any savings were probably canceled out. I acknowledge that I’m privileged that we did not have to consider this cost in our budget.
• We spent the night before in our parents’ respective rooms and used it as a getting-ready space in the morning. The venue also provided a mirror, steamers, and stools to sit in for makeup.
• It feels like we toured every non-loft venue in the Loop! Non-loft was FH’s preference. We looked at about 10 venues and researched a bunch more as we looked at costs - all-inclusives vs. not, Fridays vs. Saturdays, off-season vs. in-season, F&B minimums vs. venue fees, etc. The venue we chose was sur

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

The doctor says it terminal.

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Last June, I responded to a prompt about a noble hero learning his trusty companion was, in fact, the great evil he set out to destroy.

What started as a prompt response then turned into a mini serial. Then a book. Then a series. Earlier this year, I signed the first two books of that series with a press, fulfilling a dream I've had for over half my life. To say I'm both ecstatic and deeply grateful is an understatement. I never, in a million years, could have assumed that jotting down a writing prompt response would have led to this. Before that prompt, I could barely get a word or two of feedback or support on my writing. Y'all changed that. I am overwhelmed by the support of this community.

The Extramundane Emancipation of Geela, Evil Sorceress at Large (book 1) follows the unlikely pairing of an evil sorceress and a holy priest as they team up to take down her evil, cheating, ex-husband. Things go predictably about as wrong as they can, especially the more Geela learns about her holy, pious companion, Darkos.

You can buy the book here! (paperback coming later this week)

US - UK - DE - FR - ES - IT - NL - JP - BR - CA - MX - AU - IN - Paperback!

Here’s a sneak peek from Chapter One, Welcome Home!

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Darkos reached a hand down to help Geela up a particularly steep incline, the final one of their journey. The actual final one. Not any of the “I think this one must be the last one”s that he’d fed his increasingly exhausted companion every time she stumbled or tripped uphill. This time, he meant it.

With their destination, the Dark Fortress, now fully in view, he opened his mouth to congratulate Geela on actually making it

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

The bartender says, "Sorry, no minors”

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

At work, I have a workstation.

edit: cheers u/cheer_up_richard

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.