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Perhaps the most important thing that must be done when you are ready to begin planning your wedding is to first create your budget. Your budget is important because it is almost impossible to know what you can afford for each aspect of the wedding if you don’t give yourself a limit to the overall spending costs. For most people, creating the budget is the hardest job to do because you want to have the nicest and most memorable wedding that you can afford.

The days when the wedding is paid for by the parents of the bride are practically gone now. Parents will often contribute to the wedding cost as a gift to the couple, but it rather rare for parents to cover the whole cost of the wedding these days.

Usually it’s because the parents simply can’t afford it, but couples today often prefer to pay for their own weddings because it ensures that they can do it the way that they want to without interference.

A lot of the time, parents will forego paying for the wedding and pay for the honeymoon instead. Basically this makes creating your own budget very important; especially if you are paying for both the wedding and the honeymoon yourself.

These days, 4 out of 5 couples pay for their own wedding and it helps to know how your budget should be broken down.

When creating your budget, you will first begin with the overall amount that you can afford to spend. The average wedding today costs approximately $19,000. This is not a definite, but this is what the figures currently show.

Now you will need to take that starting amount and apply it to an actual separate dollar amount. If you are not good at percentages, you can always utilize the internet and check with the various websites that offer you free or cheap wedding budget calculators that will do it for you.

With these calculators, all that you have to do is give it the total budget amount and then it will calculate for you how much money in dollars that you will have to spend on each aspect of your wedding.

Once you have figured out the dollar amount that you can spend on each aspect of the wedding, you can then begin to create a chart that will itemize the list for you. I have included a quick table to help you out in this area.

Category(what must be done) Goal (what you want for what must be done)
Reception
Ceremony
Photography/Videography
Catering
Rings
Attire
Music
Flowers
Honeymoon
Miscellaneous
decorations

What this table is meant to show you is what needs to be done, but the blank areas are designed as a means of bringing out the dream of it all into reality. You have to make a list of all of the things that you will need to get in order to fulfill your wedding hopes.

This is necessary in order to know if what you dream of can even be afforded within your set budget. If it can’t, you will have to do any or all of the following:
• Lower the guest list
• Forego some of the services
• Lessen the wedding party
• Forget the extras like limos

It is with the budget that you can set realistic goals for your wedding and determine whether or not your budget is realistic. If it isn’t, you will have to change or get rid of something. It’s that simple.

Once you have decided what you want to include and what you can afford, it is on to the planning stage.

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You’ve heard of them, the Bridezillas- very nice, happy, beautiful women who turn into some kind of crazed beast when it comes down to the wire on planning their weddings. Friends shake when confronted by them, men hide the women and small children from their view, and they seem larger, and scarier than life. Are you worried about turning into your own version of a Bridezilla?

Fear not, there are steps you can take to avoid alienating every single friend you ever had, not to mention your family- and still plan your very own wedding.

1) Accept that fact that you will be completely overwhelmed at times. This is a wedding you are planning, and it takes a lot of work to get it all right. It’s also the biggest day of your life, a day of immediate and drastic change that will alter the course of your life, forever. Of course there will be stress, frustration, emotional ups and downs. Embrace them, and don’t try to hold it all together when you really need to just let it all out.

2) Stop trying so hard to make everything perfect. Nothing is ever really perfect, now is it? Why do we feel our weddings have to be obsessively perfect? If you can let go and accept that you can’t control everything, that yes, your bridesmaids are not all the same height, nor do they have the same hair color and nor can they smile identically, you will be able to keep your perspective and possibly still have a few friends left after your big day. Breathe, and laugh when something silly goes wrong. It’s not the end of the world.

3) Remember why you are getting married in the first place. Connect with your fiancé, make sure he knows that he is the reason for all of this, and that he matters more than any of it. Take the time to really show him how happy you are to be marrying him, whatever happens at your wedding. You will be grateful for this perspective long after the wedding has ended.

4) Remember who you are. A great way to keep from turning into a Bridezilla is to take your wedding in stride, acknowledge the emotions you feel as you go through this process. The less stress you feel, the more you will be able to connect with the friends and family you have invited, and isn’t that the point of the wedding anyway?

Last, enjoy yourself. Once your wedding has started, it will take on a life of its own. No matter what happens, remember you have found the love of your life, and you are pledging yourselves to one another at your wedding. Don’t let anything interfere with the happiness you feel with your new partner, and you will be just fine.

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