Help Needed

We are planning on doing things simply. Our wedding will be a unique twist on a simple traditional wedding. We will be going light on the facilities and decorations and the formality of the event focusing primarily on the social aspect of the wedding. We would like the focus of the ceremony and reception to be on the coming together of friends and family. That's pretty much it. We want everything involved to have a personal touch from people and places meaningful to our lives.

We are really looking forward to marriage and we are also looking forward to putting on a fine reception for all of our guests. The wedding planning for this occasion will be expedited as we are setting our date early and will only have about 3 months to plan and save for the wedding. We would encourage anyone who would like to help out to do so by following the below instructions.

Help Finance The Wedding - Without Giving US Money
We certainly don't want to ask for money to finance the wedding costs because we feel that the reception is our gift to our friends and family. We do however offer you a couple ways to help finance the costs without giving cash gifts. If any of you know me well you know that I am a banker and like a good banker I cannot emphasis more the importance of routine personal savings.

First of all you can help us finance the wedding, believe it or not, by opening a high-yield online savings account with Virtual Bank. Both Flor and myself have had these accounts for a couple years and we couldn't be happier with them. They offer much better savings rates than most traditional saving accounts and there are no fees or minimum balances to worry about.

If you let us refer you into a new account you will get an opening bonus from Virtual Bank for $20 and we will get a referral bonus of $20, which we will then set aside to help cover the costs of the wedding. This basically allows you to help finance the wedding without giving us a cash gift! If you are interested in helping in this fashion you should email us or call us before signing up. We will then email you a referral link for you to click through. This would be a huge help as Flor is in school and we will only be living on one source of income for the next 4 years.

The second option is even less of a commitment on your part. It is using our referral link and signing up with Ebates online. Ebates is a cash back shopping site. They give you a percentage of money back from most any online store you buy at just by clicking through to that store from the Ebates site. It's a great website and I couldn't imagine shopping online without using it. Like VirtualBank Ebates will give you $10 in your account for free and they will give us $10 for free as well.

• The referral link is: www.ebates.com/doublebonusoffer/index.htm?id=30034567 and my referral email address is: email at brian mounts dot com.

This ends up being another easy way for you to help us out financially without giving us any of your own money and without us having to build up too much debt. We hope you will consider one or both of the above options as doing this would mean a lot to us. Thanks.

Thanks to all who are helping out!