This post is part of a recurring series here on BSB – we share a wedding budget tip every Tuesday to help you save money on your wedding! You can also access all the wedding budget tips on a single page for your convenience and future reference. Wedding Budget Tip #31: Choose a non-traditional venue to save
No matter the size of your budget, there are likely going to be things that simply don’t make the cut, priority-wise. One thing I personally didn’t budget for when I was getting married was wedding videography. When working with a $10,000 wedding budget for a guest list of 150, it was just
I love finding and featuring new brands and businesses that help brides (and grooms!) feel and look their best on their big day. The last thing you want to feel on one of the most important occasions of your life is self-conscious or uncomfortable in your own skin, am I right? That’s
If you’ve spent any time at all here on The Budget Savvy Bride, you know we LOVE sharing resources that make wedding planning more affordable, simpler, and more convenient for our couples. It’s amazing when we find a company that fits all three of these qualifications and that’s why I’m so excited
Being that my fiancé is currently in law school, I tried to handle a majority of the tasks involved with wedding planning. However, I did ask if he would plan the honeymoon and find our DJ (he actually may have volunteered for these tasks!). Vacations and music are definitely more up his
Dylan & SaraAfter the initial shock and excitement of getting engaged wears off, the wedding planning and decision-making start to set in. Location, timing, who’s going to be in the wedding, flowers, the rings, etc. – those are all important things to factor into the wedding budget. But there’s one more important
 via ProvoWeddingGuide Planning a wedding quickly becomes overwhelming, because there are so many things that cost so much. Our big three items: food, venue, and photography, all make up a large portion of our expenses, so when we thought about videography I wasn’t sure what to do. How do we get wedding videography
Do you ever feel like that picture above? Like there is just so much information about weddings and so many lists and organizers and things to do?? Wedding coordinators are available to help with weddings, from the beginning of being engaged, to the wedding, even to cleaning up at the end. There is no right or
For my fiancé and I, food is at the top of our priorities list for our big day. After a wedding, we always discuss the food (of course we discussed the bride & groom, but food was always discussed), so we knew we wanted to have food everyone would rave about so
When deciding on our wedding flowers, I knew I wanted something very simple, yet elegant. My favorite flowers are hydrangeas, so I knew I wanted to incorporate them into the wedding. However, when researching flowers I found out that they are one of the more expensive blooms, but luckily are in-season for
When most couples create their budget and figure out what is most important to them, they choose photography as one of their “splurges”. So if you read my budget post, you were probably wondering why we didn’t choose photography as one of our “splurges”, and the answer is simple – we knew
As I mentioned in our budget post, dessert is among our top priorities, so we thoroughly enjoyed choosing our desserts for the wedding. TJ and I both love sweets and often spend our weekends exploring the many cake, cupcake, and dessert shops in the Triangle. When originally discussing our ideas for our
Becoming engaged was awesome, but strange. Especially in a college environment, there were many shrieks of joy and excitement, and people I encountered walking from class to class wanted to talk to me view the new piece of jewelry on my left hand. The attention was fun, but I am introverted so I
So now that Keith and I had a budget and an estimate guest count, we could look seriously at wedding vendors, attend bridal shows, and compare quotes. TRUE CONFESSION – I was so disgusted with the prices these vendors were requesting for services. Â Between the separate tab for wedding pricing on vendor
No matter what budgeting tool you are looking at the overwhelming standard affirms that the largest portion of your wedding budget is bound to be spend on your reception. Most sites recommend spending between 45 – 65 percent of your budget on this portion of your big day. The venue also determines
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