Comments on: Wedding Planning – Budgeting http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:23:49 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Kimber http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Kimber Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:55:39 +0000 http://www.onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/#comment-149 The trick to making a wedding wonderful on a shoestring budget is to make it meaningful. That usually means asking for assistance from the important people in your life, your guests (if they weren't important, they wouldn't be invited). Maybe a guest is noted for her shortbread cookies (the family recipe). These could be made ahead of time, wrapped and given out at the table as thank you's (in the speach, the couple could explain that no family celebration would be complete without Auntie So and So's shortbread). Other family recipes can be added to the meal (with a little card labelling it). Most married folks have stuff from their own weddings (the cake knife, the bride and groom goblets, etc) that they wouldn't mind you borrowing. Explain that they mean a lot to you and you would like a piece of them included in the wedding. I doubt anyone will complain. And who knows? They could come up for creative solutions for the centerpieces, etc. I went to an absolutely beautiful and fun wedding at a Chuck E Cheese. The bride and groom went there on their first date so it had special meaning for them. If you switch the focus from how to save money to how to add meaning, you'll have much more fun. The trick to making a wedding wonderful on a shoestring budget is to make it meaningful. That usually means asking for assistance from the important people in your life, your guests (if they weren’t important, they wouldn’t be invited).

Maybe a guest is noted for her shortbread cookies (the family recipe). These could be made ahead of time, wrapped and given out at the table as thank you’s (in the speach, the couple could explain that no family celebration would be complete without Auntie So and So’s shortbread). Other family recipes can be added to the meal (with a little card labelling it).

Most married folks have stuff from their own weddings (the cake knife, the bride and groom goblets, etc) that they wouldn’t mind you borrowing.

Explain that they mean a lot to you and you would like a piece of them included in the wedding. I doubt anyone will complain. And who knows? They could come up for creative solutions for the centerpieces, etc.

I went to an absolutely beautiful and fun wedding at a Chuck E Cheese. The bride and groom went there on their first date so it had special meaning for them.

If you switch the focus from how to save money to how to add meaning, you’ll have much more fun.

]]> By: David http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/comment-page-1/#comment-133 David Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:50:24 +0000 http://www.onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/#comment-133 Thought you might be interested, I just posted some stuff we went through when we got married and how we saved some dough...anyway, check it out if you feel like it. Good luck with the wedding! http://www.mytwodollars.com/2006/12/11/love-and-marriage-impress-yourselves-not-your-friends/ Thought you might be interested, I just posted some stuff we went through when we got married and how we saved some dough…anyway, check it out if you feel like it. Good luck with the wedding!

http://www.mytwodollars.com/2006/12/11/love-and-marriage-impress-yourselves-not-your-friends/

]]> By: Maria http://onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Maria Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:15:06 +0000 http://www.onemillionandbeyond.com/blog/2006/12/07/wedding-planning-budgeting/#comment-128 If people are offering to help, take them up on it. It's so hard to actually pin people down though and may feel awkward but hey they offered. A wedding shouldnt cause you or your fiancee to go into debt. Congrats on your wedding! If people are offering to help, take them up on it. It’s so hard to actually pin people down though and may feel awkward but hey they offered. A wedding shouldnt cause you or your fiancee to go into debt.
Congrats on your wedding!

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