Golden Rules for Your
Wedding Budget

These golden rules for your wedding budget will help you stay on track throughout your planning.

Read them thoroughly and stick to them. If you do, you'll be sure to keep your costs down.

1. Getting your planning right. Do lots of research before you decide what you want. If you change your mind, then your budget will increase and you’ll miss out on the best deals. Button down your ideas early on and stick to them.

2. Don’t forget the parents. Make sure you involve them early on so they don’t mess with your costs by adding guests or elements you hadn’t considered to the reception.

3. Make sure you get like-for-like quotes and know exactly what is included, so you don't get nasty suprises later on.

4. Get three (or more) quotes for everything – you’ll be surprised at how much variance there is between each one.

5. Always allow for a 10% contingency in your budget, this will make sure you don’t go over.

6. Always get and keep the receipts for all payments. It will help you fill in your wedding budget more accurately and make you realise how much you’re spending.

7. Always update the budget regularly.

8. Watch out for the small stuff – you can easily blow your budget on the small things. A few extra table decorations or upgrading your flowers will send your costs through the roof. So be careful.

9. If it’s not in the budget then forget it! Planning ahead should eliminate this.

10. Double check that your helpers are still able andwilling. After all, people change their minds and to find a photographer or chauffeur at the last minute could be costly.

Keep to these rules - keep to your wedding budget.






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