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Budgeting Your Wedding – Saving Money on your Wedding Day

We realize that weddings are generally not a ‘low-cost’ event, in fact your wedding day may just be one of the most expensive days of your life! That’s OK if you have a...

Avoid Overspending Your Wedding Day Budget

Don’t Overspend On Your Wedding Day! Failure to Create a Budget Sounds simple enough, but you’d be surprised how many couples don’t think through the cost of...

5 Tips for a Fabulous Wedding Ceremony on a Budget

Planning weddings is always fun and exciting; however, because you get too excited about it, you tend to splurge a little too much. Remember that your wedding ceremony is the beginning of your...

Your Wedding Cost – Seeking Parents Help with your Wedding

You may be feeling a little stressed as you consider the cost of your wedding? Of course, one great stress relief is when parents help-out, or in many cases, cover the entire cost of your special...

Wedding Budget – #2: When the Family Doesn’t Chip In

Figuring Out Your Wedding Budget On Your Own! Although many (and probably most) families share in the expenses of a wedding ceremony and reception, many find it difficult or even...

Wedding Budget – #3: What do you mean we have to pay for our own wedding?

As much as parents have been paying to have their kids married for eons, it does happen from time-to-time, some parents can’t or won’t. Dealing with “can’t” is...

Wedding Budget – #4: What are the hidden expenses (for my wedding)?

Hidden Expenses in Your Wedding Budget Wouldn’t it be nice if what we saw advertised was really the price? Yet as we know that’s but a fraction of the real cost. Ever...

Wedding Budget – #5: Picking the “Budget” Day

Picking The Budget Day for Your Wedding As odd at this may sound it seems that there is actually a cheaper day, in fact six cheaper days to get married! Ok, Monday – Thursday is a...

Wedding Budget – #6: Please, Don’t tell me I need Wedding “Insurance”?

Wedding Insurance The good news is ‘No!’ The bad news is “It may cost you more to not have it, than actually purchasing it” especially if you’re putting out...

Planning your Wedding Day-timer so YOU Won’t be Late

A Wedding Day-timer Remember the day you became engaged! Your life was changed (forever)! You can’t stop thinking about your Wedding Day. And for some reason it...

The Mother of the Bride

Engaging The Mother of the Bride The one person who has been there for your throughout your courtship and engagement (not to mention your whole life), is your mother. When it comes...

What NOT to do, Now that You’re engaged

Chances are, if you’re reading this wedding blog you may have just got engaged! In fact the most popular time of engagement is over the Christmas and New Year’s...