About.com's Wedding Site is full of tips on saving on your wedding.
This article has 10 easy tips on saving money and having a cheaper wedding. These tips include the following:
Trimming your guest list
Being crafty on your wedding decorations
Saving postage for your wedding invitations
And seven more unique tips. Be sure to check out the article so you can start saving money towards your wedding today!
Also, be sure to check out my ebook titled 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through Amazon's Kindle site.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Create a simple wedding budget from Weddings.About.com
Weddings.About.com is a website full of practical tips for planning your wedding.
And, of course, it all begins with the wedding budget.
Without a budget, agreed upon by both the bride and groom, you'll end up overpaying for items or services that could've been acquired for much less.
About.com's Wedding site has a great easy wedding budget worksheet, which is printable, and breaks down many of the expenses that go along with weddings. There are also estimated percentages for each area, like the reception, music, and photography.
Also, be sure to check out my wedding ebook, 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
For a video example of my chapter concerning wedding budgets, please check out the video below:
And, of course, it all begins with the wedding budget.
About.com's Wedding site has a great easy wedding budget worksheet, which is printable, and breaks down many of the expenses that go along with weddings. There are also estimated percentages for each area, like the reception, music, and photography.
Also, be sure to check out my wedding ebook, 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
For a video example of my chapter concerning wedding budgets, please check out the video below:
Friday, October 12, 2012
Want a Fairy Tale Wedding without the Fairy Tale Cost?
With the economy recovering and unemployment still high, you can still have the wedding of your dreams without it becoming a nightmare. Even a fairy tale wedding.
1Wedding Source.com has put together a quick video here where they highlight several areas where you can save money on your wedding. The title of the video is "The Budget Bride's Guide to a Fairytale Wedding" and is full of fun tips to reducing costs.
Speaking of planning a wedding on a budget, be sure to also check out my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
1Wedding Source.com has put together a quick video here where they highlight several areas where you can save money on your wedding. The title of the video is "The Budget Bride's Guide to a Fairytale Wedding" and is full of fun tips to reducing costs.
Speaking of planning a wedding on a budget, be sure to also check out my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Video on planning a shoestring wedding
I found a fantastic little video on Youtube from Jodie Armore White where she talks about the costs of an average wedding, and how one can reduce those costs. Near the end, she gives these five quick tips:
1) Plan early
2) Research
3) "Visualize your day" - this one is particularly interesting
4) Barter
5) Be creative/flexible
Here's the video:
For additional information on planning your wedding on a budget, be sure to check out my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
1) Plan early
2) Research
3) "Visualize your day" - this one is particularly interesting
4) Barter
5) Be creative/flexible
Here's the video:
For additional information on planning your wedding on a budget, be sure to check out my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
Monday, October 8, 2012
How much does the average wedding cost?
If you're putting together your wedding on a shoestring budget, one of the first things you'll wonder is: "How much does an average wedding cost?"
Cost of Wedding.com has done this for you. Not only do they have the average for the United States, they also have a search field where you can plug in your ZIP code to find out the average in your area. Not only does it do that, Cost of Wedding.com has also a printable checklist to use for planning your wedding. It's a great tool to use for planning that wedding on a budget.
Speaking of planning a wedding on a budget, be sure to also check out my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
Cost of Wedding.com has done this for you. Not only do they have the average for the United States, they also have a search field where you can plug in your ZIP code to find out the average in your area. Not only does it do that, Cost of Wedding.com has also a printable checklist to use for planning your wedding. It's a great tool to use for planning that wedding on a budget.
Speaking of planning a wedding on a budget, be sure to also check out my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available through the Amazon Kindle site.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
When is the perfect time to plan your wedding?
The perfect time to plan your wedding is right now.
Well, the perfect time to plan a wedding was last month or six months ago--or is the case with many women, their entire lives--but if you're going to plan a wedding (or any other event) it pays to start early.
Real Simple.com put together a wedding planning checklist, starting at sixteen to nine months before the celebrated day to the week of the wedding. It's a great comprehensive checklist many have used (they have over 6,000 likes on Facebook) to plan for their wedding.
And, of course, no wedding would be complete without my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available on the Amazon Kindle.
Well, the perfect time to plan a wedding was last month or six months ago--or is the case with many women, their entire lives--but if you're going to plan a wedding (or any other event) it pays to start early.
Real Simple.com put together a wedding planning checklist, starting at sixteen to nine months before the celebrated day to the week of the wedding. It's a great comprehensive checklist many have used (they have over 6,000 likes on Facebook) to plan for their wedding.
And, of course, no wedding would be complete without my ebook 99 Ways To Have A Memorable Wedding On A Shoestring Budget, which is available on the Amazon Kindle.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
When dealing with debt collectors, should you take the first deal they offer?
Sometimes a deal is too good to pass up.
This even goes with dealing with collectors and bad debts. If you have the ability to pay your debt in full, it's a good idea to do it and move on. If you're not able to, work out a deal. Get it in writing.
This is a process that's not going to take five minutes and then the deal of a lifetime will come land on your lap (i.e. settling a $5,000 debt for $900). However, if you can land this kind of a deal and get it in writing, jump on it. Then, I suggest (as well as suggested by thousands of financial counsellors) keeping that correspondence FOREVER . . . just in case the collector comes back years down the road and wants to collect the balance of what is owed.
This is the same way it can be handled in buying a used car--new cars are more difficult to get a deal on, due to their low margin. Don't be afraid to say, "That's not good enough," and see how low a person can go.
Let's say you have an old debt of $3,000 and all you have it $900. But the most they'll go down is $2,500. Tell them NO DEAL and hang up. Call them back a few days later and offer $900 again. It may take two dozen phone calls before they'll agree. Be persistent. If a low figure is all you can do, then that's all you can do.
But make sure to get the deal in writing, either by mail or e-mail or fax.
This even goes with dealing with collectors and bad debts. If you have the ability to pay your debt in full, it's a good idea to do it and move on. If you're not able to, work out a deal. Get it in writing.
This is a process that's not going to take five minutes and then the deal of a lifetime will come land on your lap (i.e. settling a $5,000 debt for $900). However, if you can land this kind of a deal and get it in writing, jump on it. Then, I suggest (as well as suggested by thousands of financial counsellors) keeping that correspondence FOREVER . . . just in case the collector comes back years down the road and wants to collect the balance of what is owed.
This is the same way it can be handled in buying a used car--new cars are more difficult to get a deal on, due to their low margin. Don't be afraid to say, "That's not good enough," and see how low a person can go.
Let's say you have an old debt of $3,000 and all you have it $900. But the most they'll go down is $2,500. Tell them NO DEAL and hang up. Call them back a few days later and offer $900 again. It may take two dozen phone calls before they'll agree. Be persistent. If a low figure is all you can do, then that's all you can do.
But make sure to get the deal in writing, either by mail or e-mail or fax.
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