Before I came back to school, I got engaged to the love of my life. I don't do the whole mushy thing, so that's not what this is about. Instead, this is about the wedding.

This year, I'm a senior in college trying to finish strong. But in the back of my mind is all of this wedding stuff. I may not know what I want the cake to look like or what we're going to serve for cocktail hour, but there's one thing I know for sure.

I don't want to spend a year's salary on the wedding, and I'm not going to.

Some people want to go all out on their big day and invite a ton of people. That's not me. Don't get me wrong, my wedding is going to be nice. We will be surrounded by plenty of people that love us. And that's what really matters.

We're not going to start out our marriage in debt because we decided to throw a knock-out party for our wedding. Our wedding is more about celebrating our love with the people who have been there for it and supported us.

Not to mention, if we splurge, it will be on a honeymoon. Why not spend when you are paying to go on your first vacation with your best friend as husband and wife?

Are there some areas that I will probably splurge on? Absolutely. My hair and makeup will be done. My dress will be beautiful. Our rings will mean something to us. There are things that we will spend on, and there are things that we will choose to save money on rather than going all out on.

When I look back at the day of my wedding, will I remember the flowers that I put as my centerpieces that died days later or got thrown out? Will I remember where Aunt Edna sat after I painstakingly made plans for seating arrangements for days? Will I remember that I went with the third darkest shade of brown eyeshadow instead of the fourth? No.

When I look back at the day of my wedding, I will remember dancing with my husband, our friends, our family, and how much love there was that day. I will remember our first dance and our first kiss and the way I felt that day. I will remember that it was one of the best days of my life because it started the point at which I officially got to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.

I can get that same feeling if we skip the flowers on the archway or the cake pops, and I'm okay with that. At the end of that day, I will be married to my best friend and we will be headed off to our honeymoon. I will have a full heart from the people that were there. And that's all that really matters twenty years from now.