Wedding Breeze

Having a financial budget for your wedding is important, because you need to know whether you can afford the type of wedding you have always dreamed of. If you have the means to do it, go ahead. If other people are helping out with the finances, then you need to decide whether they can really afford it and how much they can afford. Would this create undue stress on their finances? For example, your parents may splurge that sum on you, but it could be part of their retirement fund.
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It is possible to have a great and memorable wedding without going over the budget but you might need to change your plans accordingly to do so. Some people get into debts right into their marriages, and this is not starting on a good footing. Both parties have to discuss all aspects of the wedding and the costs involved and then see how much money is available to cover these costs. Apart from the wedding, housing is another factor to consider.

By spending so much on the wedding itself, you may deprive yourself of the chance to have a more expensive and pleasurable honeymoon. You and your partner have to decide on what is more important, rather than what is more important to others. Some parents may insist on more expensive wedding dinners just to show off their wealth, and they may demand on more dinner tables for their friends. Does that add value to your wedding? Many couples have quarrelled over the choice of people to invite, especially with older folks who may be quite stubborn in their selection of guests.

Perhaps the best thing to do is to discuss this at length in an amicable manner with your partner and both sets of parents.