Where to start

I'm not sure the proper order to start wedding planning but I had some priorities with my wedding that I wanted to be perfect and I had a list of things that I wanted to be pretty, but were not a priority.

Priorities:

• A very cool venue where we could have a ceremony and a reception at one location. I want the location itself to be interesting in decor so I wouldn't have to spend a ton of money on making a blank space pretty. 
• A beautiful dress! I didn't know what it would look like, but I wanted it to be beautiful. 
• An intimate, love filled ceremony.
• A party with plenty of drinks for a reception.

Things I didn't care much about:

• Flowers
• Cake
• Bridesmaids that were matched head to toe (including matching toe nail polish)

I sound super bridal huh? Are all the other brides going to kick me out of the bridal club house? Let me explain myself. It's not that I didn't love the look of beautiful flowers but it was just low on my priority list. At the end of my wedding day I had a pretty dress on, I was married to my Mr., and we had a fun party in a funky location I would be happy. 

So I might not have made a formal budget, I had decided where to put the emphasis. My priorities would get more money and the non-priorities would get the budget of- "as cheap as possible". Remember I already told you I was very frugal and practical. 

How about you? Did you take a very non-bridal approach to your wedding? What was important you? What was low on your priority list.