Sometimes planning a wedding on your own is extremely daunting. What you can do is to create a list of wants and needs and then work out the cost of these. Write down who will be doing which duty. Is it only you, your husband, or can you involve your friends or relatives?
This will help you to prioritize which of them are essential to having the wedding of your dreams. You may need some time to get costs and compare them from various different places, including everything from the wedding venue to minor expenses such as hiring suits, buying flowers, buying the wedding cake and so on.
I actually did my own flower arrangement for my ROM. It looked good enough to me, and seriously nobody else will remember what flowers you used. I saved a lot of money. By the way, I love receiving flowers, and I don?t mind my husband buying from the nursery to save cost.
You also need to consider that quite often expenditure runs a little higher than anticipated as last-minute changes or additional expenses can occur.
If other people offer help in any way provided it doesn’t encroach on your wedding plans it is well worth accepting this help to reduce any financial or other stress before the day. This can be quite tricky, because you may have different expectations. My friend, who almost turned into Bridezilla, was extremely upset because she did not like how the angpow box done by a friend turned out. And yet she did not know how to let the other party know about how she felt.??
You will often find that family and friends are only too willing to help as people like to get involved in other people’s happy occasions.? Once again remember that you are in control and only accept help that will be beneficial to you. You don?t want an embarrassing situation like what Monica and Chandler faced in Friends when Joey wanted to be the priest and he kept coming up with terrible lines.
