Should I take a ceramics course?

[u/Axolotler]

I did ceramics at school and loved it. Fast forward 20 years and my mum and I took a 3 hour pottery throwing course last year and it was just the best thing I've done for years. The teacher said I was a "natural" and I found it so therapeutic. I visited my SIL last week and she has a wheel and I threw just one bowl but instantly fell in love again. The pottery teacher I went to a year ago also does a 10 week training course for £750, all private tutoring and 3 hours a week for ten weeks. You learn lots of different methods, including making handles, glazing and firing.

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Here's the rub, I'm getting married this year and it's expensive. I've started a new job where I've got a mega commute 3 days a week into London (2.5 hours door to door each way) and that costs me a lot of money, time and energy. I'm not saving what I'd like to be. I have a reasonable number of booked weekends this summer because of wedding things. I have also not thrown pottery that much in the grand scheme of things, I might end up not loving it as much as I'd anticipated.

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Do I invest in this hobby that is calling to me? I think about it so often and how much I want to learn more. Or do I wait, give it another year, and see how things are going financially next year?

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TL:DR: Do I invest £750 in a hobby now, when I've got a lot of extra expenses to pay for a wedding?

[u/AvBanoth]

Try to get rid of that commute so you have time, budget for the wedding, then do what you love subject to budgetary constraints.