Setting Your Wedding Budget

The first and most important task a bride and groom must do is to set their wedding budget. Weddings can be expensive, and it is not unusual to spend $25,000 or more on a wedding. Before we go any further, you must realize that no wedding budget is ever too big. It is your wedding budget not your imagination that sets the limits of what you can or can’t do on your wedding day.

Formal weddings in hotel ballrooms or other extravagant wedding reception venues will require a much larger budget than a wedding party held at your parents house. In addition, formal weddings are more expensive because everything about them is expensive such as the food, music, etc.

Summer is the most popular and most expensive time of the year to get married. Because hotels and other wedding reception venues wish to profit from the busy wedding season, be prepared to pay a higher price during the summer rush. Click here to read more...