When it comes to tallying up the expenses, how many of you broke your wedding budget?
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Obviously I haven’t got there yet, but I think we’re going to…it’s inevitable. And here I was shocked when I first got engaged that people could spend R70 000 on a wedding! Now I see how quickly it adds up.
Wedding Budgets are a very stressful topic.
As a wedding planner, wedding budgets are extremely important to me. I encourage my clients to be very realistic from the beginning. It maybe a very difficult thing to come to terms with, but rather have a fainting session at the beginning of the planning process; set firm limits and stay disciplined through out.
My main advice is: Be very careful of the small things… your petals, ring pillows, lunches with bridesmaids, and even your patrol costs of driving all over to the city trying to find that perfect ribbon. Do shop around, but try to do it sensibly.
One does not need a big budget to achieve a sensational wedding. A big budget, without careful management can be wasted without resulting in a fabulous wedding. A little creativity goes a long way. The reality is that not everyone has the luxury of hiring a wedding coordinator who can guide them through the process.
Being creative and willing to put extra time can translate in saving a lot of money on such things as the Decor. For example, get together with your bridesmaids and other willing participants and go on the flower arranging course! This way, you will have a FABULOUS time, you will learn a new skill, you will be able to do your own flowers KNOWING that things wont go wrong!
If you are saving on your stationary, think about having a scrapebooking evening with your friends and get 10 people together and each would have to make 10 invitations = 100 invites… you can have music, wine and loads of laughter…
Dear brides… there are many, many, many ways to stretch your budget…
Our company hosts Wedding Planning Workshops in which we focus on budgets, contracts, money saving ideas… If you are interested, send us an enquiry and we will reply with an invitation. Our email address is info@splendidaffairs.co.za
Wedding Budgets are a very stressful topic.
As a wedding planner, wedding budgets are extremely important to me. I encourage my clients to be very realistic from the beginning. It maybe a very difficult thing to come to terms with, but rather have a fainting session at the beginning of the planning process; set firm limits and stay disciplined through out.
My main advice is: Be very careful of the small things… your petals, ring pillows, lunches with bridesmaids, and even your patrol costs of driving all over to the city trying to find that perfect ribbon. Do shop around, but try to do it sensibly.
One does not need a big budget to achieve a sensational wedding. A big budget, without careful management can be wasted without resulting in a fabulous wedding. A little creativity goes a long way. The reality is that not everyone has the luxury of hiring a wedding coordinator who can guide them through the process.
Being creative and willing to put extra time can translate in saving a lot of money on such things as the Decor. For example, get together with your bridesmaids and other willing participants and go on the flower arranging course! This way, you will have a FABULOUS time, you will learn a new skill, you will be able to do your own flowers KNOWING that things wont go wrong!
If you are saving on your stationary, think about having a scrapebooking evening with your friends and get 10 people together and each would have to make 10 invitations = 100 invites… you can have music, wine and loads of laughter…
Dear brides… there are many, many, many ways to stretch your budget…
Our company hosts Wedding Planning Workshops in which we focus on budgets, contracts, money saving ideas… If you are interested, send us an enquiry and we will reply with an invitation. Our email address is info@splendidaffairs.co.za
Wedding Budgets are a very stressful topic.
As a wedding planner, wedding budgets are extremely important to me. I encourage my clients to be very realistic from the beginning. It maybe a very difficult thing to come to terms with, but rather have a fainting session at the beginning of the planning process; set firm limits and stay disciplined through out.
My main advice is: Be very careful of the small things… your petals, ring pillows, lunches with bridesmaids, and even your patrol costs of driving all over to the city trying to find that perfect ribbon. Do shop around, but try to do it sensibly.
One does not need a big budget to achieve a sensational wedding. A big budget, without careful management can be wasted without resulting in a fabulous wedding. A little creativity goes a long way. The reality is that not everyone has the luxury of hiring a wedding coordinator who can guide them through the process.
Being creative and willing to put extra time can translate in saving a lot of money on such things as the Decor. For example, get together with your bridesmaids and other willing participants and go on the flower arranging course! This way, you will have a FABULOUS time, you will learn a new skill, you will be able to do your own flowers KNOWING that things wont go wrong!
If you are saving on your stationary, think about having a scrapebooking evening with your friends and get 10 people together and each would have to make 10 invitations = 100 invites… you can have music, wine and loads of laughter…
Dear brides… there are many, many, many ways to stretch your budget…
Our company hosts Wedding Planning Workshops in which we focus on budgets, contracts, money saving ideas… If you are interested, send us an enquiry and we will reply with an invitation. Our email address is info@splendidaffairs.co.za
Wedding Budgets are a very stressful topic.
As a wedding planner, wedding budgets are extremely important to me. I encourage my clients to be very realistic from the beginning. It maybe a very difficult thing to come to terms with, but rather have a fainting session at the beginning of the planning process; set firm limits and stay disciplined through out.
My main advice is: Be very careful of the small things… your petals, ring pillows, lunches with bridesmaids, and even your patrol costs of driving all over to the city trying to find that perfect ribbon. Do shop around, but try to do it sensibly.
One does not need a big budget to achieve a sensational wedding. A big budget, without careful management can be wasted without resulting in a fabulous wedding. A little creativity goes a long way. The reality is that not everyone has the luxury of hiring a wedding coordinator who can guide them through the process
Being creative and willing to put extra time can translate in saving a lot of money on such things as the Decor. For example, get together with your bridesmaids and other willing participants and go on the flower arranging course! This way, you will have a FABULOUS time, you will learn a new skill, you will be able to do your own flowers KNOWING that things wont go wrong!
If you are saving on your stationary, think about having a scrapebooking evening with your friends and get 10 people together and each would have to make 10 invitations = 100 invites… you can have music, wine and loads of laughter…
Dear brides… there are many, many, many ways to stretch your budget…
Our company hosts Wedding Planning Workshops in which we focus on budgets, contracts, money saving ideas… If you are interested, send us an enquiry and we will reply with an invitation. Our email address is info@splendidaffairs.co.za
We B-R-O-K-E ours that when we got to the wedding, I didnt even keep up with the budget anymore. Its amazing how many little things add up in the last week! ITs scary!!!
We completely forgot to buy our parents gifts, and remembered the day before, so that was just an example of one of the things we forgot on our budget….
Mr QB also decided, last minute might I ad - that the cash bar was not a good idea, but him paying the bar bill was far better - so tally another R7 500.00 on our already BLOWN budget….
Huge ouch. Cash bar for us all the way.