Wedding Stress Buster 3 of 6

When planning a wedding it can be very easy to lose sight of how much every little thing will cost. Shopping all of the beautiful pictures on pinterest may cause you to long for a wedding that is simply out of reach. I have seen many brides cause themselves undue stress by biting off more than they can chew financially. Having trouble sticking to your budget will be a stress inducing experience.

One certain stress inducer would be to plan a type of wedding that you can not afford, or one that your fiance does not want. The choices about the type of wedding should be one of many first steps towards buiding a strong relationship with your husband to be. There may need to be some give and take on both parts, or you may be lucky and he might say: "What ever you want pumpkin." Of course: you must know if you can afford what you want.

The very first thing you should do, when planning your wedding is to plan your budget. Keep in mind that budgets can have some flexibility. So lets talk about what can be done to help you stay within budget: Before you start shopping do your due diligence: educate yourself on the prices of the services in your area. Take time to discover the average price range of your favorite designers. Look at numerous venues and carefully note if you are comparing apples to apples or is it more like apples to grapes? Gather a list of questions to ask and take it with you to the appointments. Important questions to ask all of your vendors is: What is included? What is extra? If we do more business with you: will you give us a price break? Some vendors may be willing and able to negotiate the cost of a package deal. Some will simply be firm on their pricing. You may need to be willing to sacrifice some components that are less important on your wish list.

You will need to decide how you can juggle other items to assure that the very most important things to you are kept in the budget. Of course not everyone has that kind of budget. Many are the brides who come to us with $200.00 or $500.00 budgets for thier gowns. It is not impossible to find a gown in that range, but it can be difficult. We have many of them. It may be an impossibility if you are shopping designers that are going to be over your budget to start with. You may need to be creative and take a gown that meets your peramiters and then do a little tweeking to it to make it what you dreamed of.

Standard professional advice is that you build a budget using 90% of what you are truly comfortable spending. This will allow you to be able to splurge on that unforseen addition that you see along the way without breaking the bank.