The best way to start your marriage is to not have any debt. Decide how the wedding will be financed. If parents are helping to pay for it, find out how they want to deal with this. The lowest-stress method for everyone is for the parents to commit a specific amount of money, which the bride and groom can supplement with their own money if they want.
The budget should always be followed. Starting out your marriage with debt is very difficult. Try to remember that the wedding is only one day and your marriage is forever. There are those who will tell you to put expenses on a credit card so you can get the frequent flyer miles you need for the honeymoon. But that works only if you pay it off a week later. Most people have trouble doing that. And it's easy to get in the trap of thinking that you can spend more, because it's not money out of your pocket now. Do yourself and your marriage a favor and do not put any charges on credit. If you don't have the money now to have the wedding of your dreams, wait a bit longer until you have saved enough.
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There are as many ways to budget a wedding as there are people. The old traditional way is to have the Bride's family take care of most of it, with the Groom's family paying for special items and the rehearsal dinner. Of course now the couples themselves are footing most the bill. It helps to use the traditional method as a dividing point of responsibilities and not of money.
Decide on what is most important and don't cut there. Still use the best professionals but at their lowest packages. That way you will not have to worry about flowers not arriving or mediocre food. You can supplement where you need to with cost cutting ideas.
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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