How to Set a Budget for your Wedding

I have learned that getting married is one of the most expensive chapters in couples' life. Do you agree with me? Yes this is very true, especially of having a "Destination Wedding" or "Wedding Abroad".

First and foremost is you have to do research for cheap vendors, get quotations, make your own spreadsheets and take note of all you need, tick which one you got the prices, make an estimate for the quantities you need and.... SET YOUR BUDGET. Stretched as much as you can.

During my planning period, I have read in one of the websites or it has been a practice that parents of both parties may have to share with all the expenses. Well, yea in theory should be! But ours we did not ask our both parents to share. Since ours was a destination wedding, we thought that it was a like a treat to them since our both parents never been spent a holiday outside our both countries (Philippines and UK).

In short, though we have saved a lot of money in our Personalized Wedding Program, our Wedding Favors and our Unique Invitations, still we have spent a lot of money in flights and accommodations. But still I have managed to get cheap packages for both parties - group room rate packages and flights.

My Personalized Wedding Program for a Budget Wedding

The very reason why I personalized my program is because I wanted to add special touches such as favorite poems, quotes, or photographs.

Creating your own design and customizing your own wedding program and other stationaries, is proven to be a one way of saving money - to be spent on reception or honeymoon. I am not a professional designer, but good enough to make my own. I did not really intend of making my own, however, when I started to see the result of my work I was beginning to like it and finally decided just to carry on with it.

and this is what I did... as you can see I only made 4 sheets, printed off all the details in both sides. My first idea was to make a personalized fan, but it turned out to be like "much prettier than a simple fan".

Like mine, instead of making just a ceremony program, you can create a program for the reception as well. Combine it with the ceremony program or create a separate handout for the beginning of the reception. The goal of the event program is to let people know the approximate times for things like the cake-cutting or special dances, as well as special meanings for particular events.

Please take this simple tip for you brides-to-be, just use your expertise in POWERPOINT, I made all of them by using that program.