For years I’ve been telling brides how to plan their dream weddings on any kind of budget. I do it for several reasons, and not only because I want brides to know that they can have a great wedding with budget wedding planning the right way to save money.   But that’s not the only reason I’m here to help brides out with budget wedding planning. I understand that planning a wedding is hard, and it should be one of the happiest days of your life. If you’re stressed out over your budget wedding planning and think you can’t afford anything for a nice wedding, I’m here to lift you out of that hopeless feeling as well. Budget wedding planning is possible – and not nearly as hard as you would think. I’m not going to advise you to take up glass blowing so that you can make 200 wedding favors by hand for each guests – that’s foolish. You see, when I was planning my own wedding, I learned a lot about budget wedding planning, and I didn’t learn it the easy way. I mean, nobody took me aside and showed me all the different ways to save money on my wedding, not enough money to make a difference anyway. My wedding vendors certainly weren’t interested in the fact that I was budget wedding planning, they’re out to make their own money. No, I had to learn budget wedding planning the hard way, and many things I didn’t learn about until after the wedding (and believe me – I’m still kicking myself now!). So here are some great tips for budget wedding planning that can really help you out that I can show you right now. Read the rest of this entry »

I was shocked while in high school about the girls who already knew exactly what they wanted in their weddings, had their dress and cake picked out, and all that was lacking was the groom. While I’ll tell every bride that you need to plan your wedding, I’m not sure that it should really be done that early. If you’re in high school or college, then why not just enjoy where you are? But I digress. There are really a ton of great advantages that you have when you plan your wedding. Perhaps the best advantage is that you can really have your hands in it and you get to enjoy all those little planning details that you’d miss if somebody else was doing it all for you. Really, meeting with the caterer, picking out your wedding dress and even the little things like all those little wedding favors and trying samples of wedding cakes are part of the fun when you plan your wedding versus hiring someone to do it for you. But there are several great advantages when you plan your wedding. Here are more reasons why you should, and how to get started and plan your wedding.

Advantages When You Plan Your Wedding

Like I mentioned before, when you plan your wedding you get to have your hands in it, and have fun doing all those little wedding tasks that really make you feel like you’re a part of everything. Read the rest of this entry »

Most women have been planning for their wedding day from from the time they were little girls, putting pillow cases on their heads, wearing their mom’s high heels and imagining a handsome prince charming down at the altar waiting for her. Well now that you’ve gotten engaged and you can start planning that dream wedding you’ve always wanted, you may discover that when it comes to how to plan a wedding, you’re totally stuck. Truthfully, weddings are the biggest, most important and most expensive days of your entire life, and you want everything to be beautiful and go off without a hitch. But if you don’t know how to plan a wedding, how in the world can you make sure that you’re remembering everything – or that your wedding will be exactly how you’ve always dreamed it would be. I know that when my husband and I were planning our own wedding, I didn’t know the first thing about how to plan a wedding – simply because I’d never done it before.  Nearly all brides are in the same situation that I was in, you’ve got this wedding to plan for and coordinate, and up until now the most complicated party you’ve ever thrown was a pizza party in your dorm room. But did you know that there is a perfect place to start when you’re looking at how to plan a wedding? It’s simple, and I can get you started.

How to Plan a Wedding – The First Place to Start

When you’re looking at how to plan a wedding, the first step that you want to take isn’t anything close to what most brides assume that it is supposed to be. Read the rest of this entry »