Denis O'Brien [0:09]Hey Money Clan, a very warm welcome to the Chain of Wealth podcast. I'm your host, Denis O'Brien.Katie Welsh [0:20]And I'm Katie Welsh.Denis O'Brien [0:21]So Katie, just to give everyone a quick update this episode is dedicated to diving into our wedding budgets.Katie Welsh [0:27]Yeah. So right around the corner.Denis O'Brien [0:30]Yes. So our actual date of the wedding is July 20. And or super pumped.Katie Welsh [0:37]We had our wedding shower over the weekend, which was a complete surprise for us. And now I feel like it's actually like the real deal. Like it's coming. They had a countdown.Denis O'Brien [0:49]Yeah, we have less than 60 days to go until we will be tying the knot. So really, really exciting. And on a money front, we thought we'd give you guys a nice update and we'll really dive into some of the numbers. And let you know exactly where we're at in our budget. All right, Kate, well before we dive on into today's episode, if you guys haven't already, head on over to chainofwealth.com/group -]you can join our Facebook community and come and say hi.Okay, Kate, you ready to dive right in? YKatie Welsh [1:18]Yep!Denis O'Brien [1:19]Let's do it.Unknown Speaker]1:20]Welcome to chain of wealth. here's your host, Dennis inspiring you to begin your journey of financial freedom.Denis O'Brien [1:34]Okay, so diving into our budget- what do you think's been some of the most interesting things that we've been dealing with when it comes to figuring out our finances for the wedding?Katie Welsh [1:43]Well, I am going to start out with we have been doing something a little bit different because we are planning our wedding on the other side of the world. We are not really able to cut costs where a lot of people typically would like making our centerpieces or, you know, kind of haggling around finding different areas and different things that we know. Because we don't know the area super great.Denis O'Brien [2:11]Right, yeah, so for those of you who don't know, we're getting married in South Africa. That's my home country. And yeah, it's gonna be really, really fun. We're actually getting married on safari. So we're going to be out there like in the wilderness. They are free roaming big 5 animalsKatie Welsh [2:26]Hopefully we don't get run over by a herd of elephants.Denis O'Brien [2:29]Yeah, so there's gonna be there's all kinds of animals that could come into the area. Everything from lion cheetah, what leopard, elephant, like, it's crazy any of the Big Five can come into the area where we are actually having our ceremony..Katie Welsh [2:46]Or zebra will be pretty cool.Denis O'Brien [2:48]Zebra would be cool.Yeah, so in addition to having our wedding costs, we also have to pay for flights. And for our honeymoon. We're actually doing Family moon, well what we like to call a family moon. And so we're not doing a traditional honeymoon, what we're doing is we're saying, hey, all of this family's going to be together. Let's go and take everyone down to Cape Town. And let's go have a really cool time with doing a cool trip. We've planned out almost every day. And there's a ton of activities and it'll really explain us to two families to sort of get to know each other a lot better.Katie Welsh [3:24]Yeah, and I know that is pretty different. When I've told people about the family moon idea. I get a lot of strange looks.Denis O'Brien [3:32]Yeah, you get like the "Oh!"Katie Welsh [3:33]Yeah, like, oh, because everybody's like, Oh, are you going on your honeymoon? I'm like, Oh, I'm going to Cape Town with my mom and my in laws and everything. And they're just like, what? And but to me, in my heart, it felt like the right thing to do, mainly because we don't get to see your family very often. And I didn't want to ask my family to fly so far. And only be there for a week. It's not enough time.Denis O'Brien [4:02]Yeah, it's not really fair. So we thought that this was the best alternative to really try and get the most out of