Hotwire, Trust, Weddings, and Money

Posted by Liana at 12:44 AM

When you're planning a wedding, it's painful to look at the budget... because every little thing adds up. You budget, prioritize... but in the end you're still knocking yourself on the head over the fact that what you could have paid off your 2nd mortgage with what you're spending on a small wedding!

Priorities are clear. Marriage counseling, photography and videography are the frontrunners.

STILL every little detail is part of what is cherished, remembered, enjoyed. I want to stay in a gorgeous room for our first two nights as Mr. and Mrs. I don't care if it's big and fancy... I just want it to be to our taste.

So we booked the Viceroy Santa Monica. Simple, elegant, modern yet traditional all at once. Boutique. Beautiful. By the Beach.






This weekend after a particularly convicting talk about money, I canceled our reservation. We can afford it, but I know better. ALL the better uses for that $$! I wanted SOOO bad to justify the fact that it's our WEDDING NIGHT accommodations... but we'd already picked where we would splurge. I set out on a mission this week to find the perfect, affordable place to stay instead. Nothing was really what we wanted. Found an agent that gave us better rates at these places...


Mondrain is funky, modern, fun...






The London is raved about, and you get a whole suite... still not quite right...




So I finally rolled the dice tonight and bid on an unknown hotel on Hotwire. When you book with Hotwire, it's like Priceline. The identity of the hotel is not revealed until AFTER you pay and commit. No changes or refunds.

I bid on a hotel near the beach - at 1/4 of the cost of what we'd originally planned to spend. It's funny how God works when you trust Him and try to make the wise choice. Not your choice, but the one He'd have us make. How He turns things around and makes it 10x better.

Guess which hotel we got??



The Viceroy!!!

***insert happy dance here***