✦Weddings · 10 recordsWedding on a budget

Wedding budgets go wrong by starting from a standard list of things a wedding has. This starts from the three things you would be sad to miss, funds those properly, and treats everything else as optional — which is the only version of a budget that survives.

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Goal

A wedding we can pay for Month 9

Funded against what we actually care about, not a standard list.

Decide what matters Week 6

Before looking at any list of what a wedding includes.

  • Each name the three things we would be sad to missDo firstDay 7
  • Set the total we are willing to spend, and where it comes fromDo firstWeek 3
  • Fund the three things properly and mark the rest optionalDo firstWeek 6

Hold the line Month 9

The guest list is the real budget lever.

  • Set the guest number and treat it as a financial decisionDo firstMonth 2
  • Review the spend against the plan at the halfway pointMonth 5

Routines

  • Update what has actually been spentweekly
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Start from what you care about

Wedding budgets go wrong by starting from a standard list of things a wedding has. Naming three things you would be sad to miss, funding those, and treating everything else as optional is the version that survives.\n\nVenue and catering scale directly with guest numbers, which makes the guest list a financial decision more than a social one.

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Wedding on a budget, answered.

By naming the three things you would genuinely be sad to miss, before looking at any list of what weddings include. Funding those properly and treating the rest as optional is what makes a budget hold under pressure.
Almost always venue and catering together, which scale directly with guest numbers. That makes the guest list the real budget lever, and this plan treats deciding it as a financial decision rather than a social one.
That one is the full twelve-month sequence of bookings and admin. This one is about the money and the guest list, and works well installed alongside it if you want both.
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