You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a fabulous wedding. It’s often the individual special touches - unusual place settings or a heartfelt reading at the ceremony - that will make your day memorable. With careful planning you can create a perfect day whatever your budget.
Don’t lose sight of your dreams though.
For instance, if you cannot live without that designer dress you may have to re-think your honeymoon expenses. Or, if masses of flowers are a must, then an expensive champagne toast may not be possible.
Traditionally the bride’s parents paid for the wedding. Nowadays it’s more likely that the couple themselves will pay. The way to work out the budget is to calculate how much can realistically be saved and add to this any volunteered contributions from both sets of parents.
Increasingly, with many couples having an established home already, family and friends will offer to pay for, or contribute to, certain of the wedding costs, making this their wedding gift.
- Press announcements
- Wedding clothes for the bride and her attendants
- Flowers for the church and reception
- Transport
- Stationery
- The reception catering
- Cake
- Photographs and video
- The church or register office fees
- Bouquets for the bride and bridesmaids, button holes for himself, best man and ushers, and corsages for the mothers
- Bride’s engagement ring and wedding ring
- Bride’s wedding gift
- Gifts for attendants and best man
- Outfits for himself, best man and ushers
- Bridegroom’s wedding ring
- A special present for the bridegroom
See also Budgetting & Determining A Wedding Savings Plan
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