Once you have a solid wedding budget, your immediate next steps should be to set estimates for some of your expenses so that you have a better idea of what you can afford in each category. This takes a bit of research because prices will vary widely based on what you want and where you’re … [Read more...] about Basic Wedding Budget Breakdown
Wedding Debt
In a recent post, I wrote about how to come up with your wedding budget. I mentioned that my partner and I ended up taking on wedding debt to pay for some of our wedding expenses. Today, I’m writing all about why we made that decision and how it all worked out for us. Let me start off by … [Read more...] about Wedding Debt
If Your Family is Paying for Wedding Expenses – Read This
In last week’s article, I gave you a step-by-step guide to create your wedding budget. I briefly mentioned how to include monetary gifts from family in your budget. In today’s post, I’m going to give a little more detail about family contributions to the wedding. You’ll notice that today’s … [Read more...] about If Your Family is Paying for Wedding Expenses – Read This
How to Create a Wedding Budget: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide
If you know anything about me, you know I can talk about budgets all day. I’m really good at budget stuff; it’s my happy place :) That’s why I’m SUPER excited about today’s article about how to come up with a budget for your wedding. (By the way, I truly believe that the very first thing … [Read more...] about How to Create a Wedding Budget: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide
Difficult Wedding Conversations: 3 Practical Tips
Sensitive topics (like money, family expectations, prenups, religious differences, etc.) will inevitably come up as you plan your wedding. These types of topics lead to difficult conversations because we have particularly strong feelings and opinions about them. Any emotionally-charged topic is … [Read more...] about Difficult Wedding Conversations: 3 Practical Tips
How to Structure Your Decision-Making Process to Make the Best Wedding Decisions
Today, I’m going to talk about the decision-making process. This is going to be especially helpful for the “indecisive” types. Hint: you’re not “indecisive,” your decision-making process just needs a lil bit of structure! I’m going to describe two psychological phenomena that lead to … [Read more...] about How to Structure Your Decision-Making Process to Make the Best Wedding Decisions