September 7, 2006

  • Slippers!!

    First, I apologize to my readers for my lack of updates.  Work has been absolutely crazy for the last month or so…..

    Onto the post!  Mr. Butterfly and I were in Chinatown this week and I realized that I could get great deals on their slippers.  Originally, I didn’t want to buy the Chinese slippers that were popular last year, because I really never thought they were much of a fashion statement.  However, after exploring all my options, Chinese slippers became my only options due to price. 

    We all know how much weddings cost, and at this point with only about 2 months to go, I really have to watch my budget.  With about 95 guests, and assuming that half of them will be women, I figured 30 slippers would be plenty.  Lemme tell you – 30 slippers is not that cheap if you are thinking of spending $5 per pair.  In Chinatown, however, everything is up for bargaining.  And that’s exactly what I did. 

    The guy wanted to charge me $3 per pair.  $3 x 30 pairs = $90 buckaroos.  That’s expensive!!  So I managed to bargain him down to $70.  That comes out to about $2.33 per pair!  What a deal!!!

    This is a picture of all the slippers after I’ve arranged them into the beautiful baskets from Target that I ordered a while back.

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    I know I dont have any blue in my color scheme, but it was the most “neutral” color besides white and black.  They didn’t have enough whites and blacks in the sizes that I wanted.  In that basket, I have:

    3 size 5 slippers
    7 size 6 slippers
    10 size 7 slippers
    10 size 8 slippers

    Now my only problem is to figure out a place to put the slippers in my venue so that people will see it and use it! 

    Please comment on weddingbee!!