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If you are paying for your wedding (and most of todays brides and grooms are paying for their own) you are probably trying to stick to a budget.

Having a budget doesn't mean being cheap, it means keeping track and being judicious about what you spend where.

Before I was a wedding photographer I was a bride. A bride who paid for her own wedding.

The key to any successful budgeting is three steps:

#1 Establish Reasonable Goals
How much money do you have to spend on your wedding?
On your reception?
What will that Budget provide?
Do the research to see what you can truly get for your budget.

#2 Make a Plan and Stick To it (as much as possible)
This doesn't mean not to have fun planning your wedding, just go about planning your wedding with purpose.


#3 Keep Track of What You Spend -- This is THE Budget Buster!!!


Knowledge is power. A few Blogs ago I mentioned "The Binder", a great way to keep everything together and organized. If you are like most brides, and have a budget that you want to keep to, this will be a huge help.

Have a great time planning your wedding!

Cara

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