Wedding On A Budget
July 2, 2007 at 3:39 pm - Joni
It’s no secret that along with being one of the most highly anticipated events in a couple’s life, weddings are also one of the most expensive. Whether it be to make your celebration of love the most memorable day of your lives or to impress family and friends, weddings have grown to be big business. Times however are changing with more and more young couples paying for most, if not all, of their wedding costs themselves instead of going the more traditional route. As an example, when April and I got married we certainly had help from her parents and my mom but we also paid for a lot of things ourselves. Sure it was stressful, but it was important to us to contribute as much as possible to our own wedding - after all, we had a little something to do with the wedding taking place!
I was reminded of all this while reading the Los Angeles Times yesterday. The Business section had an article “Love Extravagantly, But Cut Wedding Costs”. In it, they give advice for the modern couple on how help reduce the cost of some big ticket items as well as strategies for overall wedding planning - where it’s ok to pinch your pennies and where you should spend top dollar. They included everything from buying a “once worn” wedding dress to having a faux wedding cake for pictures and using less expensive sheet cake to serve to your guests. The one place they advised couples to avoid cutting costs was for pictures and video. As Christa Vagnozzi, senior editor at The Knot said, “You’re going to have these for the rest of your life - you want to make sure that they get all the shots” and cautions against going no-frills in these areas.
All too often we hear couples say, “We’d really like to have pictures and video but we’re already over our budget…” and we don’t doubt their sincerity, but our advice is the same to everyone - remember that this wedding is for the two of you. People won’t remember what the cake tasted like, what the flowers smelled like, or even what designer tux the groom was wearing. What they, and more importantly, you will remember is what you see in your video and pictures. Along with our memories, these are the things that we hold on to through the years and pull out and watch with our family, our children, and (eventually) our grandchildren. If you need to cut costs, that’s understandable, but don’t short change yourself of memories that will last a lifetime.
Happy 4th of July - Be safe!
Joni & April
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