Setting a wedding planning budget
Weddings and wedding planning can be a costly business. All the ingredients of planning a wedding can really sum up if you don’t track what you are spending. That’s why it’s crucial to come up with a wedding planning budget, supported by what you will be able to afford, and adhere to it.
The individual details within a budget are flexible. There will be moments where you’ll go over your budgeted total in one area; it just entails that you will have to bring down your outlay in a different area to reconcile it.
The whole wedding planning budget (the bottom line) isn’t negotiable, unless you’re reducing it. If you begin to believe that going off budget in a couple of areas isn’t a problem, then consider your bottom line and ask yourself where you are intending to get the additional money that you need.
Nothing holds this top of mind more effectively than an Excel spreadsheet that adds together your total every time you alter a detail. For more information on planning, see our planning ideas section.
submitted by: Wedding Ideas Guide
photo credit: Alice Harold
