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Budgeting A Wedding - Kelli Roethel

9/14/2012

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You are engaged!!!!!  Now what?!?!?  

First thing is first... you are so excited in the fact that you are engaged you hate to even think about starting to plan the Wedding. Yikes!!!! There are so many things that go into planning a wedding. Take a deep breath and start from the beginning… who is paying for the wedding?

Although tradition says that the bride's parents pay for the whole thing, this is frequently untrue for today's couples. If you can pay for the whole wedding yourselves, you've got it easy. If you want your families to help you out, or pay for it all, you need to have a sit down discussion with them about it.  You need to be prepared to answer some tough questions. First you need to know that the average wedding costs about $25,000, but you need to base your wedding on what is available to you.

There may be several options that arise after you have a talk with family.

* Parents can say that they are contributing a specific amount, and then the couple decides on a wedding budget and makes up the difference themselves.

* Parents say that they want to pay for specific items such as the bride's attire, the rehearsal dinner or catering. The couple then has to figure out how to pay for everything else.

* The couple can set a budget and then ask to split it evenly. This is particularly good solution for divided families. For example, the couple, the mother of the bride, the father of the bride, and the groom's parents will each contribute $5000, for a total of $20,000 wedding budget.

How much do you really need?

Depending on your area, budgeting about $100 per wedding guest will give you a good start. This allows for $50 a head for catering, and the remaining $50 goes towards everything else- Flowers, attire, etch.

We have attached a wedding budget worksheet.  This will help you determine what is important to you and what kind of money you want to spend where. Cross off things that you don't need and find a wedding planner. They will save your life and save you from a ton of stress. Remember this is one of the best days of your life!  So, enjoy every moment of it.

And…. CONGRATS!!!!! 


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7/8/2013 04:35:56 pm

It is perfect for wonderful dream wedding. Very nice and intelligent calculation and well planned wedding tips.

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