One of the most important things to establish when starting to plan your wedding is your budget. Your wedding budget is basically the maximum amount of money you are willing to spend on your entire wedding and all the preparations. As I said in one of my previous posts, this should be one of the first things you do before you start buying anything. However big or small your budget is, costs will quickly spiral out of control if you don't keep track of everything you are spending. We all know how easy it is to get carried away!
So how do know what your budget should be?
If you're anything like me when I got engaged, you won't have the foggiest idea of the different costs and pricing involved in getting married, so working on a budget may seem an impossible task to begin with. You can spend a lot of time researching prices and getting quotes to give you an idea, but I guarantee that you will have forgotten some things (and it's amazing how all the less obvious things can add up!)
A really useful tool that I want to share with you is this really quick and simple to use wedding cost calculator. If you already have in mind what kind of wedding day you want, i.e. the venue type, how many guests etc, you can get a pretty accurate estimate of how much you're likely to spend on your wedding using the calculator. Try it yourself below:
Things to remember
These are just average prices and every budget will be different depending on what sort of wedding you are planning, and how much you are comfortable spending. Remember, it is most definitely possible to create the perfect wedding for you, on eve the smallest of budgets. It's all about lots of price comparing, DIYs and hand-me-downs. No-one will know on the day!
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