Budget Weddings For Dummies
Chapter One
Bringing Your Wedding
Dream to Life
In This Chapter
* Remembering the reason for your wedding
* Setting your own goals and priorities
* Coming up with a preliminary budget
* Compromising when priorities conflict
* Staying true to your values
As soon as you announce your engagement, you're inundated
with advice and exhortations to make your wedding all that
it can be: romantic, elaborate, perfect. This generally well-meaning
advice can, and usually does, come from every quarter - parents,
friends, the media, and (not least of all) vendors. As a result, planning
your wedding can easily become an all-consuming venture
that exhausts all your resources - mental, emotional, physical,
and financial.
In this chapter, you can discover how to separate your own
dreams and desires from the pressures you get from outsiders.
You also can get tips for setting goals and priorities with your
fiance(e), for deciding how much you want to spend on your
wedding, a ... read full excerpt from Budget Weddings For Dummies ebook