Pat... you're gonna pop the question, eh? My advice, having just gone through this... make sure you give yourself sufficient time to plan your wedding! We got married at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and it was beautiful, but it was stressful planning it all in 9 months, give yourselves a year if you are going to have a big wedding, or better yet, save the $5000 you would spend on that nice wedding and elope to Vegas or the Bahamas or something with it... just take a few close friends/family and call it good! I loved my wedding, it was elegant, comfortable, everything I ever dreamed of (under $5000 too ), but we would have been just as married if we would have eloped. [&:] Anyway, good luck on the proposal, does she know, or is it going to be a surprise?