5 Tips for Planning Your Wedding Budget
So how do you pull off your wedding budget? Easy! Here you can find 5 tips to help you get started.
Holy moly weddings can be expensive! From the party ideas to the wedding ideas to the events planning, it seems
as if once you start the wedding planning process your money is consistently flying out of your wallet or purse.
Create your wedding budget
There’s nothing that costs more than not planning for your costs. This is true for many things in life but when it comes to the wants and desires of a wedding,
your emotions and impulses can get the best of you. Create a well thought out wedding budget, which should include a reasonable amount of money
for fun and indulgence, and then stick to it.
Keep the guest list small
While this might be the most obvious way to stay on budget, it’s also the hardest. We all have people in our lives that we want to be a part of our big day,
but with each new person comes a collection of new ancillary costs.
Pick the people that you need to or absolutely have to have there and the others you can either make it up to individually or
have a low cost celebration later on.
Design and make your own centerpieces
This is such an easy way to save a few bucks. All you need is a little bit of creativity and know-how . Hire one less professional to do a job.
Plus, it connects you more to your own wedding. It seems that with all the event planning companies and event planning businesses out there,
you can have very little involvement with the planning and participation of you momentous day.
Designing and making your own centerpieces not only saves money, it better connects you to the event.
Some more budget wedding ideas
Have the groomsmen wear suits instead of tuxedoes
Will this make your wedding slightly less traditional? Maybe. But part of the fun of working within a budget is to find
creative solutions to traditional challenges. Besides, there are some sharp suits out there.
Choose a non-traditional venue
Having your wedding on a beach or in a park does not mean that you love your partner any less than if you’d hold the ceremony in the city’s largest cathedral.
The focus should be on why you are getting married, not where.
