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IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding what’s important to you and your budget

Determining what’s included in your budget

Navigating additional fees, tips, and gratuities

Before you start researching your vendors, you need to determine what you have to spend. Let’s face it — weddings are expensive. That doesn’t mean you can’t have everything you want; it just means you need to be intentional with what you have to spend. Before you fall in love with an expensive photographer or design elaborate flower arrangements, it’s important to determine your budget.

You’ve probably already checked the resources to determine a percentage of what each item should be in your overall budget. This is my biggest pet peeve in the wedding industry; those percentages were created to be a guide, but they are not yours. One thing that was forgotten when those standard percentages were created is you!

That’s right — you decide what your budget will be. In this chapter, we’ll determine what’s most important to you, figure out who’s paying and what you have to spend, work out what your budget should include, and look at something often overlooked in the overall budget: additional fees and tips and gratuities.

Planning your budget doesn’t need to be stressful. Together we’re going to customize your plan and maximize your money. There’s no need to go into debt over your wedding. We’ll be smart in planning where your money needs to go, where you can save and where to splurge.