Wedding stationery seems like a pretty cut-and-dried topic, right? Buy it, write on it, mail it out – done! Unfortunately, even if you’re having a low-key wedding, stationery can still be a pain, and an expensive one at that. When I started planning our wedding, I initially thought choosing stationery would be easy! After all, […]
Start Saving for Your Wedding Before You Get Married
It’s official – we’re married! All of the planning and saving was worth it and some of the best news is: we’re under budget! I haven’t totaled everything up completely, but I think we overall stayed under our budget. That said, we did a lot of saving almost immediately after we got engaged, so we […]
5 Ways I’m Saving On Our Wedding
With only three days to go before the big day, there has come a point in wedding planning where I’m just saying “forget it.” Ring not cleaned right before the wedding? Forget it! Welcome bags for guests not quite complete? Hopefully no one will notice! One thing I’m not saying “forget it” to is our […]
Tops Ways to Barter for Your Wedding
Today officially marks the 1-month mark until I get married, which means right now I’m making it rain on vendors (half payments due up front for some, deposits for others). It also means that, even though I have a budget and know how much I’ve spent so far, I’m slightly afraid to look at my […]
5 Unexpected Wedding Costs Couples Forget to Plan For
When you first get engaged, you may find yourself going through stages of excitement and terror. Having been engaged now for 10 months, and with 3 months to go until the big day, my feelings have gone through the following stages: Excitement (months 1-3) Terror (months 3-6, worried about costs and location availability) Boredom (months […]
6 Money Questions to Ask Your Future Spouse
As you may have read in previous posts of mine, I’m getting married early next year, and wedding planning is on my mind. With the recent Supreme Court ruling, it looks like a lot more people may be getting married in the upcoming year, which means it’s time to talk married-people finances! A recent CNN […]
Would You Ever Have Your Wedding Sponsored?
In my last post, I alluded to wedding planning, and I wasn’t just saying it drop hints to my (then) boyfriend. I’m really getting married! Don’t run – this isn’t going to turn into a wedding planning post, I promise. However, I have to say it: weddings are expensive. Why?? Is it parental pressure, childhood […]
Guess How Much I Spent On My Wedding Ring
Weddings are a lot of fun. And since I’m right around the age where a lot of my friends are getting married (including myself), I’ve been going to a lot lately and been having a pretty great time. But I also know just how much work and how much money goes into each one. And […]
The Cost of Being a Groomsman
A lot of the wedding related articles I read have to do with how the bride and groom can save money on this or that but not many of them talk about how much it’s going to cost other people. I’ve been a groomsmen for one wedding and I’ll be having 7 groomsmen at my […]
My Costly Wedding Mistakes (and How You Can Avoid Them)
Editor’s Note: This is the first article from our new contributing author Kali Hawlk. I’d like to welcome her to the site and look forward to all the great articles she’ll be bringing us this year. Kali will have a weekly column that will appear each and every Wednesday. You can also find more of […]
Why I Sort Of Hired a Wedding Planner
Even though I’m only working four hours a day, I’ve still been spending a lot of my free time planning for our wedding next summer. Since my fiancee is busy with school, I’ve become the ‘unofficial’ wedding planner and let me tell you, it’s a lot of work. We ended up picking a venue that […]