Budgeting for Your Wedding

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I work with many brides whose biggest struggle while planning their weddings is budgeting.  Most brides know how much money they have to spend on their weddings, but often, from the first purchase (usually their wedding gown) they see the money disappearing much faster than they expected.  It isn't much fun worrying about when your money will run out.

According to The Knot, the average wedding costs $27,021.  You could buy a 2012 Dodge Caravan or a 2012 Nisson Altima for that same amount of money.  It's a lot of money, but every bride knows how easy it would be to spend a lot more.  Recently, I found a great page on the Your Wedding Company  website.  It is a free wedding calculator.  Using it, you type in the amount of money you have budgeted for your wedding and it instantly gives you the specific amount that you can afford to spend on each wedding item.  If you are shopping and you find something that costs more or less than the budgeted amount, you can change the price in the calculator and it will instantly update everything else to reflect that price change.  It's really cool!  Find it at:  http://www.yourweddingcompany.com/templates/planning/budget_calc.php/action/showProject/planId/3/