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The Wedding Budget Tips Guide With Cheap Wedding Ideas
So you want to be Cinderella but the glass slipper is a little too rich for your wedding budget? Don’t go searching for your fairy just yet honey!
Making your wedding the fairy tale experience you’ve dreamed about since you were a little pumpkin doesn’t take a wand, but it does take a little creativity.
Where do I cut corners on my wedding budget then? Thank you for asking! So, maybe you didn’t just ask this quizzically phrased question, but you have to be on this budgeting website for a reason right?
Whether you’re Cinderella, Prince Charming, or just the ugly step sister who was recruited to help with the planning, you need some ideas.
Well, zalla kazoo mencha kaboo, I am here to give that help to you! (Come on, who really knows how to spell that part of the song?)
The first magical rule to designing a budget or your wedding is not buying one of the budgeting books that walk you step by step through every little thing you need to do.
You’re already on to the trick of this rule, (YAYYYY GO YOU! Smart Cookies!), but what could it be? The internet! Seriously, Google
“wedding budget calculator”;
go ahead I’ll wait.
Are you back? Did you see what I mean? You can find just about anything you can think of that you will find in those wedding budget/planner books right here on the World Wide Web.
Can you imagine if Cinderella had this tool? Home girl could have just used EHarmony instead of going through all that ball stuff!
Not only can you stay on track with your wedding budget on the internet, but you can also see pictures of visions come to life and get support from other brides or grooms to be!
Trust me; you are going to need some sort of support outside of your family who for sure is going to have their own opinions on your day.
However, alas, there is always a rotten apple in any fairy tale, Snow White. (Ok, I switched the princess, it just fit better!) Basically though, even the internet will go along with the planning books when trying to tell you how to plan a wedding budget.
Both routes will give you a step by step list of what you need to do and when you need to do it. While this is a great reference tool, don’t do the electric slide with them too much during your journey. One important way to cut corners is to DIY certain things and get it done EARLY!
Boy that Vera Wang dress looks incredible on you, but hubby isn’t Donald Trump. Does that mean you can’t have that dress? Heck no!
Cut out Michael’s 40% off coupons every single week out of the Sunday paper and take your royal behind to that store. That’s almost 50% off of every item you think you could manage to handle to make yourself or with the rest of the princess posse.
How about having an early morning wedding rather than an evening? Early morning weddings are shown to be less expensive. The more you find ways to cut your costs, the more room in your wedding budget you are going to get for the things you “have to have”.
Every fairy tale has three wishes, but the one stipulation is always “you can’t wish for more wishes.” This is the same case when coming up with a wedding budget; you can’t wish for more money than you can afford to spend.
As much as I would love to own and/or move into the Disney castle, I know that will never be a possibility for me. So my fiancé and I set up a firm budget and try to stick to it wherever possible.
Do not freak out when something goes a little over! Just try to breath, regroup yourself and find something else to pinch a little off of.
This is not to say there is not going to be crying, gallon of ice cream eating, oh crap I need to fit into my dress, why did I eat that gallon of ice cream moments, but there will be less if you are organized.
Write down every little thing you buy for your wedding. The wedding budget will be a lot easier to keep track of if you know when the card was swiped or wallet was opened.
This way you will physically see where to stay in the sea, or ask for legs and roam the land. (What? No, that made perfect sense.) OK, in other words, by doing this you will be able to see what items you might need to slow your roll on.
Presenting an original remix on a classic Disney tune: “Zalla kazzoooo a mencha kabooooo (there it is again) a bippiadi boppidi boo, internet, DIY, organization, put it together and what do you get? A wedding budget you can stick to, bippiadi boppidi booooooo.”
Well, I know! All kidding aside, as a fellow Bride I can truly say that I know how you’re feeling right now. Planning a wedding is totally stressful.
Not only do you have people who think you should do what they want, but you have to try to be nice to said people while getting the wedding you want at the same time.
Add in the fact that wedding budgets these days are steadily climbing and let’s face it; most of us don’t have the money in this economy. Grooms, I know I didn’t appeal to you in most of this article but the same tips would apply to you.
Be supportive of your future wife in her craziness. After all, sometimes we ladies need a little support, or we just might take that wedding budget to another whole level. Gold plates with pink monogrammed etching anyone?
If you take one lesson out of this page it should be from the paragraph above this one, just breath. As stressful as the planning and the wedding budget get, it’s just a wedding. The love you share is the most important thing.
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Be supportive of your future wife in her craziness. After all, sometimes we ladies need a little support, or we just might take that wedding budget to another whole level. Gold plates with pink monogrammed etching anyone?
