| When you are planning a wedding on a budget, | | | | to reach your budget, since you can't have a |
| you definitely need to shave off some of the | | | | $100,000 wedding if you only have $20,000 to |
| more luxurious items to minimize expenditures. | | | | spare. |
| The question that comes in everyone's mind, | | | | To help you along the process, you can proceed |
| though, is what exactly should you get rid of? | | | | to rank the items on your budget planner |
| You may find your wedding lacking if you get rid | | | | according to two criteria: cost and importance. |
| of item A, yet it costs a pretty penny to keep in | | | | You can start by ranking the items according to |
| the program. And that penny counts in the long | | | | cost, since you'll only need to look at the values |
| run. | | | | indicated for each item in the wedding plan. Once |
| So if you find yourself in this kind of dilemma | | | | you have done that, you then need to rank the |
| when you are planning a wedding on a budget, | | | | items according to importance. |
| keep these three rules of thumb in mind before | | | | This is where the planning gets tricky. |
| making the final decision to cut away something in | | | | The "What Will Happen If" game |
| the wedding: | | | | Ranking wedding items according to importance is |
| Fill out a wedding budget planner | | | | a little difficult, since what is absolutely essential |
| The first thing you need to do is to get your | | | | for you may be expendable for your spouse and |
| expenses in order. A wedding budget planner will | | | | vice versa. The "What Will Happen If" game |
| help you do just that, as the money spent on the | | | | greatly helps with the process of planning a |
| various items in your wedding can be easily seen | | | | wedding on a budget, and here is how it goes. |
| when you total down the expenses on a sheet of | | | | Bring your spouse along with you and select an |
| paper. | | | | item in the wedding budget planner. Ask |
| Basic templates of these planners can easily be | | | | yourselves 'What will happen if we got rid of this |
| found on the Internet and these templates list | | | | item?" One spouse will be the optimist, while the |
| down the more common items that people | | | | other will be the pessimist. Balance out the pros |
| usually buy or use during a wedding. Filling them up | | | | and cons of getting rid of the item in question, |
| is simple enough, and it doesn't require much time | | | | and come up with a final decision to keep it or |
| and thought to accomplish. | | | | scrap it. |
| Ranking the items from top to bottom | | | | The "What Will Happen If..." game is the primary |
| Now the entire point of a budget planner is for | | | | tool you'll be using when deciding to remove a |
| you to identify how much money you would end | | | | wedding item or not. Use it in conjunction with a |
| up spending if you stick through with your original | | | | ranked wedding budget planner, and planning a |
| plan. Planning on a wedding on a budget then | | | | wedding on a budget will be a lot less tricky and |
| entails making compromises and sacrifices in order | | | | stressful that it would normally be. |