| What are the ways to save money for my | | | | true. When a vendor, store, or product says |
| wedding? What are the wedding tips? These are | | | | "Wedding Shoes," "Wedding Photography," etc... It |
| questions that continually arise when planning a | | | | will always be more expensive than "Normal |
| wedding. Here are few tips to get you started | | | | Shoes" or "Normal Photography." Keep this in mind |
| saving money on your BIG day!! | | | | when you are shopping. Try to find those things |
| First, when you are a bride-to-be, you have | | | | which aren't specifically "Wedding." This will save |
| "Take Advantage of Me" written all over you. | | | | you lots of money!! |
| Most brides don't know how to negotiate and will | | | | You don't ever have to pay premium price for |
| pay the first price offered. If someone is to going | | | | anything! Don't do it!! Find those less expensive |
| to pay that price, great, charge it. But you don't | | | | vendors!! |
| have to pay that exorbitant price!! Don't think that | | | | One way to keep track of all the different |
| the first price they offer is the lowest one they | | | | vendors in all the areas you have to plan is a |
| are really willing to take. Since most young brides | | | | Wedding Organizer. Normally these can be |
| are new at weddings, vendors know they can get | | | | expensive at a Wedding Store or Barnes & |
| away with a lot more...including the price of their | | | | Noble, etc... Why not create your own for a |
| services or product. | | | | fraction of the cost?? All you need to do is go to |
| A great tip for working with vendors: When a | | | | Wal-Mart, Office Depot (somewhere like that) and |
| vendor calls you back the very next day saying, | | | | get a three inch 3 ring binder with a slip cover in |
| "I have someone else looking at that same date; I | | | | the front, three hole dividers and three hole plastic |
| need you to make a decision now." 90% of the | | | | business card holders. Label the dividers with all |
| time, they are lying. Unless you absolutely trust | | | | the different categories you will need for your |
| them because they are friend or you've had | | | | wedding. Put business card holders in each |
| many good recommendations to use that person, | | | | category. This way you can keep organize all the |
| either find someone else or wait and make sure | | | | different places and vendors you visit. Also if you |
| that is who you want. Don't be pressured into | | | | get a three ring binder with a slip cover, you can |
| buying either products or services, you don't feel | | | | put a picture of you and your fiancée in |
| 100% comfortable with. Be choosy! Pay what you | | | | there. This way everybody can see "your guy." |
| want, not what they want! Negotiate till you get a | | | | A helpful tip: Once you've decided on a certain |
| price you're comfortable with and is in your | | | | vendor and completed a contract, take out |
| budget. | | | | everybody else that you're not using. This will help |
| The next wedding tip is there is normally a | | | | keep the weight of your organizer down! |
| 25-30% mark-up if it says "Wedding." Yes, this is | | | | |