Planning Your Wedding

You may not want to hear this but planning your wedding day may well be the biggest event that you will ever plan in your whole life! I’m not telling you to scare you but to ensure you realise that with out organisation, forward thinking and a sensible planning and budgeting your minds picture of your perfect wedding day, the one you have dreamt of for so long, may become more stressful and may not run as smoothly as you desired.

Whether you are planning a summer or winter, outside or church, big or small, which ever wedding you believe to be right for you, all need to be planned down to the last detail. But the good thing is that there is lots of resources and information sites like this one to offer advice and tips on how planning, budgeting, invitations and ways to save money on your wedding. So that your dream wedding can become a lasting memory of the best day of your life.

No longer is it the customary tradition for the parents of the bride to pay for and fund the wedding occuring. Depending on wealth you may be very lucky but in the whole its rare. The parents will of course in most cases offer to contribute as much as they can afford towards the wedding costs as a gift or in most cases elect to pay for the honeymoon. This has suited many couples I have spoken that have opted to pay for the wedding themselves to avoid interference, ensuring they can create their wedding day exactly the way they envision it. Having said this generally in these modern times most engaged couples look to spend more of there saved money on the honeymoon and less on paying for the actually wedding ceremony but they still would like very memorable wedding day. This is absolutely 100% possible, if the wedding is planned and budgeting well. In many cases you may find that you won’t be able to afford the finest but with an open mind a wedding that you and your friends and family will admire and thoroughly enjoy can be planned.

This stage of the wedding plan is by far the most vital task that needs to be decided upon. With a limit on budget you won’t be able to start deciding on every over aspect of your wedding. If you miss this step your wedding expenditure may run a way form you to the stage where you have no longer the money to pay for some of the more important items and services. Considered to be the hardest decision of all, as the wedding budget underpins all of your wedding plans and decisions from here on in. [unknown]

Some great weddings will been planned and held on a budget for as little money as 500 pounds. This is possible if you stay subjective, and shop around for bargain offers and sale prices. Once you have a overall wedding budget you will need to break down how much you will spend on each aspect of the wedding. [Geri - Streatham]