Just about every little girl grows up dreaming of her wedding day. You can make your own wedding day dreams come true if you put your mind to doing so. One of the most important issues concerning your wedding involves your wedding budget.
While considering your wedding you must draw up a budget to accommodate your wedding plans. Organization is a skill that will come in handy at this time. You will need to identify all your resources. You may have to do a little giving and taking as well as enlist the aid of your most trustworthy friends and family to help you along with your wedding plans.
List Making Is Essential For Wedding Planning and Your Wedding Budget
You may wish to begin by making up a list of the ideas you have for your wedding. This will help you determine your priorities concerning those things you have to have as well as those things which you may want, although they are optional. You can make a rough draft to work with first and refine it as time passes. This will help you stay grounded in achieving your dream wedding.
Make another list of the various things that both you as the bride and your groom want to include in your wedding ceremony. You will also want to draw up a list of the prospective wedding guests. You should also consider the types of foods you would like to have served at your wedding. Other wedding issues you may want to list for your wedding planning include the bridal attire and grooms wardrobe, wedding music, and various types of capturing the special moments of your wedding such as wedding photography or videography. You may want to invest in a wedding planner notebook, they can be most resourceful guide at this time.
As a newly wed couple you will have to learn how to manage your family finances, starting with a wedding budget is the best means of learning to do so. Your wedding budget will of course, originate from the type of funding you have. It will also depend upon your creativeness and your resourcefulness. After making up your lists, you will need to determine the expense of each item you plan to have for your wedding. You can search around online to find this out or you can make some local telephone calls.
Figuring your Wedding Budget
50% - Fifty percent of your wedding budget you will use for the various fees associated with a wedding, these things may include:
- Fees for the ceremony and reception sites
- Fees for the wedding officiate and your marriage license
- Funding for the wedding cake
- Funding for food and drinks
- Funding for wedding favors and other wedding accessories
25% - Twenty-five percent of your wedding budget you will use for various wedding items, these may include:
- The wedding rings for the bride and groom, if he so chooses to wear one
- Bridal attire and the grooms wardrobe
- Wedding floral arrangements
20% - Twenty percent of your wedding budget you will use for such things as:
- Wedding music
- Wedding photography and or wedding videography
5% - Five percent of your wedding budget you will use for such things as:
- Wedding stationary
- Transportation
Various Ways Of Saving Money While Wedding Planning
You can save money in various ways while you are planning your wedding budget. Visit with your family, friends and associates to learn who may be able to help you in some way. However, you should always offer to pay them for any services. Most often close relations may help you by making their services a wedding present to you. However, you do not want yourself or them to feel as though you are pleading with them for free services. Either they can and will help you or they can or will not. It is not a big issue and you should allow it to be.
If you take the time to seriously consider all your options and compliment your wedding planning by drawing up a workable wedding budget and then sticking to it, you can make your dream wedding a reality that will turn into memories you will forever cherish.
© 2009 Sara Valor
