How To Set a Wedding Budget
- January 19, 2010
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Tamara_Koczara
Keep your special day’s expenses on track so you want have to start married life in debt.
You Will Need
- An expense list
- Research
- A guest list
- Wedding insurance (optional)
Step 1: Calculate the total
Calculate the amount you and your future spouse have to spend on the wedding. Include contributions from family and friends.
Step 2: List all expenses
List all of the items and vendors you will need and dedicate a percentage of your budget to each.
Step 3: Research
Research the vendors for every item. Prices for food, flowers, music, and photography can vary greatly.
Adjust each percentage to reflect your priorities. If floral arrangements and bouquets are particularly important to you, you can add money there and cut back in other areas, like on music.
Step 4: Determine guest list
Determine exactly how many people you plan to invite. A good portion of the expenses, such as catering, invitations and postage, and centerpieces, depend on the size of the guest list.
Step 5: Decide what to wear
Consider costs for attire, such as the wedding dress, headpiece and veil, shoes and accessories, jewelry, hair and makeup, and the groom’s tuxedo or suit. Plan to spend about 10 percent of your budget on attire.
Step 6: Consider reception costs
Determine how much to spend on the reception. Nearly half of a wedding budget is typically spent on the hall, catering, wedding cake, and favors.
You may want to purchase wedding insurance to protect yourself from the unexpected.
Step 7: Remember details
Don’t forget the little things, like transportation for the wedding party, valet parking, gifts for bridesmaids and groomsmen, and gifts for out-of-town guests.
The train on Princess Diana’s wedding dress was 25 feet long.
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Comments (2)
Confirm the good wedding can be roughly spend money, you are expected to be invited again divided by the number of guests, calculate every guest, multiplied by the general cost 10 it is you can reserve the room, the reception unit price, don't bother, this is your cost control good solution
about 1 year ago by ilovedressing
Make sure what you need for wedding and what is not the important thing and estimate their prices.Calculate the total prices and the prices you must need.Then the range is clealy.
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about 1 year ago by brideswardrobe
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