Congrats If your Getting Married Or Renewing Your Vows
Welcome to the first part in this series of A Wedding On A Budget Idea's, each series we are going to look at different parts of a wedding and share some of our idea's for doing it on a budget, you choose your budget and see what idea's may be helpful to you, they may be things you have already thought of, or some that maybe new idea's that might make you think of something that may work for you and your situation.
Each step you take now is not going to be by yourself, you have someone else to include in your decisions and decision making.
You've just jumped over the biggest hurdle of choosing a partner to spend your life with, there are many hurdles to jump down a married path but you wont be alone you will be with your best friend, your lover, your confident.
The next hurdle is getting married here is where it may get tricky for a few reasons -
- Parents from both family's or family members
- Money
- Dreams
Family
Each person may have a dream of how their wedding day should be, this may more be the Bride than the groom that everything should be to perfection, or it may be a parent or family member that has high exceptions of how your wedding should be.
It's not one persons wedding it's a couple marrying so you will need to make decisions together and find compromises together, but when it comes to family members you both need to have each others back, sit down calmly and explain what you both want and look at alternatives to suit everyone's needs that are reasonable so that everyone can feel comfortable and apart of the decision making.
Remember parents may feel they are losing a child but they are gaining an extra child and family also, they maybe set in their ways, this could be a dream for them to be able to see their child get married they only want the best.
Money
It maybe tradition for the brides family to pay, but some family's may not be able to help out, many couples now days pay for their own weddings.
Figure out the finance side of things, where you, your partner, and both sides of parents know what the budget is and stick to it.
Letting parents know of the budget if they are helping with the planning, they know and are aware of the budget.
If parent's want to help with planning, you could give them each a little job to do with their very own little budget that they can't go over, that they are in-charge of with the guide lines of what you both are looking for.
Wedding's don't need to be over the top you can still have elegance on a budget, you just need to be smarter!
If you're getting Married and would like some idea's, comment below with a theme that your going for, we'll do a range of idea's for different budget. As Steemit is World Wide, I'm in New Zealand it will be general idea's, you will need to explore what idea's you may like, if they will work in your country.
With wedding averages being between £27,161 In the UK source, In America the Average is $26 645 Source, another site has the national average for America at $29,858 with a brake down of each states average Source, Australian Average $36,200 Source
There is always room to save money from these averages, but what are you ready to compromise on?
