Wedding Planning On A Budget

   Voted One of the Best Wedding Planning Guides

The results are in!

After receiving 100’s of responses from brides and grooms regarding the many different competing wedding planning guides available on the market today, a major wedding website offering a variety of wedding services announced on October 27th that Wedding Planning on a Budget along with two other wedding planning guides have been voted the top three wedding planning guides on the market.

It is very encouraging to see our hard work in creating and improving Wedding Planning on a Budget so much appreciated. Yesterday, we made some additions to Wedding Planning on a Budget’s content bringing its page total up from 112 pages to 128 pages. Although we continue to add value to Wedding Planning on a Budget, we are not increasing the price. Even though our wedding planner is already considered by many to be underpriced, we want to keep it priced as low as possible so that every bride and groom can benefit from this absolutely essential wedding planning resource.

We hope you take a look and compare the top three wedding planning guides on the market and consider getting one of these guides to help you in your wedding planning.

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Congratulations to Jaime Dugan and Erik Huffman who will receive a Charleston, South Carolina wedding valued at more than $80,000. The wedding will take place on April 4, 2009 at Wild Dunes Resort. They submitted the winning video entry to a contest sponsored by Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Watch Jaime and Erik’s Winning Video

See Erik Surprise Jaime with the News that They Won

You can read the full news story to learn more about this couple and their winning entry.

You can also follow their story as they make their wedding preparations on The Charleston Wedding Giveaway Blog!

If you wish you were being given $80,000 to plan your wedding, we hope you consider getting a copy of Wedding Planning on a Budget. With this downloadable wedding instructional and resources guide you will feel like you have unlimited financial resources as you learn our winning strategies to planning your beautiful wedding without spending more money than you actually have.

Much of the world is currently experiencing some very tough economic times. Meanwhile life goes on. We still fall in love, make promises, and marry.

We have always said that no matter how little you can afford for your wedding, it is very possible to still plan the wedding of your dreams without going broke.

This is still true in today’s tough financial environment.

We planned our beautiful wedding without exceeding the amount of extra money we had stashed away in the bank at the time… $2,000 - which was less than one-tenth of the average cost of weddings in our area ($24,000 at that time). The strategies that made this possible would have still worked even if we only had, say, $500 in the bank to spend on a wedding.

In these tough times, our strategies should be applied by every couple to make sure that no one spends more than they can truly afford.

We promise that you will not be disappointed. You can have a wedding that is just as beautiful and elegant on a budget that you can afford as you could while racking up a giant credit debt. Guess which wedding you will be more happy with in the long run.

We hope you read more about our wedding and discover the strategies we followed, which are now fully revealed in our instantly downloadable book Wedding Planning on a Budget.

For some time now the readers of our instantly downloadable book Wedding Planning on a Budget have been enjoying the wedding budget tool that we created for them.

Now, for the first time, we are sharing this wedding budgeter with anyone planning a wedding.

Extremely easy to use, this wedding budget combines the value of a wedding budget calculator and planner with the value of a wedding budget tracker.

We invite you to start using your wedding budget today.

We recently found a great article about our wedding planner at a blog for readers whose primary language is Spanish:

Deje de malgastar su dinero, aprenda a como ahorrar una fortuna en la boda de sus sueños. Wedding Planner le brinda brillantes consejos para tener la boda perfecta. El producto lo podra adquirir por solo $19.95. Tiene un periodo de prueba de 49 dias, si usted no esta satisfecho puede devolverlo y recibira el 100% del importe que abono. Antes de hacer la compra del producto usted puede registrarse en el sitio y recibir un mini curso gratuito, previo a la compra del producto.

Que se ofrece:
Wedding Planner – Wedding Planning on a Budget es un ebook que se descarga de Internet con los mejores consejos de wedding planners expertos y los autores del libro, Tim y Lisa Spooner, que le ahorraran tiempo, dinero y le daran grandes satisfacciones en el dia mas especial de su vida.

Que va a aprender:
• A hacer su ceremonia de casamiento super especial
• A que el dia de la boda no sea estresante
• Ahorrar fortunas en las flores
• A tener la boda de sus sueños
• A hacer que su boda funcione a la perfeccion
• A ahorrar mucho dinero
• A que su vestido no sea caro

Nuestra opinion:
Wedding Planner – Wedding Planning on a Budget es un libro excelente que le brindara todo lo que necesita saber acerca de como planear su boda. Ademas le ahorrara tiempo, dinero y malos tragos en ese dia en el que usted quiere que salga todo perfecto. La experiencia de los expertos lo ayudara hasta en los mas minimos detalles, con ejemplos de la vida real y testimonios. El producto esta a la venta a un precio razonable y puede recibir gratis en su mail un mini curso gratuito, por lo que le recomendamos que haga la prueba.

Pros:
• Conocera todos los detalles para la boda perfecta
• Ahorrara mucho dinero y tiempo
• Quitara presion al dia de la boda
• Conocera los 7 principios para una boda perfecta
• Entrega inmediata
• Garantia de satisfaccion o devolucion de su dinero
• Leera testimonios reales y ejemplos de la vida real

Contras:
• No posee

Sitio: http://www.weddingplanningonabudget.com/plan-your-wedding.html

A good article was recently posted by CNN about a bride who succeeded in planning her wedding for about half the average cost of a wedding in her area.

Several of her budget wedding strategies are discussed in the story.

Read her success story.

We also welcome you to read our own success story. We planned our wedding on a budget of just $2,000 even though weddings in our area usually cost about twelve times that much ($24,000).

Read our success story.

After all is said and done, what will remain from your wedding day?

In a word, Memories.

Beautiful, sweet, satisfying memories of your wonderful wedding day.

And hopefully you take measures to ensure that those precious memories will not be forgotten.

We strongly encourage you to include a professional videographer and photographer in your wedding planning. Or at least have someone you know who has all the required skill and experience who can be fully committed to your wedding’s videography or photography.

Your special wedding day deserves to be saved to film and video.

Careful handling of the film and master are key to preserving your memories. You know what film is but do you know what the “master” is? The “master” is the original video cassette or disc that comes directly from the camera and / or is the first video cassette or disc produced from editing. The master will often be a professional grade media such as DVCAM, MiniDV, or Digital8 tapes. In a word, the master is the original – not the copies.

We recommend that you obtain the master tape(s) and negatives from your videographer and photographer (you will have to arrange for this before agreeing to use their services).

Be sure to keep the negatives and master tape in a fire safe box in a humidity-controlled, room-temperature place (not the attic or basement). Also be sure to make back-up copies right away.

Reserve your master video tape for emergencies and use your back-up to make copies for viewing. The idea is that the less you handle the master, the less likely it will be damaged. Careful handling of the master is essential since it will have the most pure form of your video.

If you have a DVD copy made, be sure to burn a fresh copy of it every five years since DVD’s – contrary to popular belief – do age and deteriorate as do cassettes (the DVDs your wedding is captured on are different than the movie DVDs you buy). You should also make a back up copy of the DVD master so that you do not stand a chance of ruining your one and only DVD master.

Oh, and be sure that you remove that tab from the VHS copies so that no one accidentally records a soap opera or a football game over your special wedding day.

In short, take every precaution to capture and preserve your precious wedding day memories.

Finally, we would like to invite you to learn how to share your memories both at your wedding and after the wedding. We will even show you how to create a wedding slideshow video the easy and inexpensive way. You will also get a chance to view a short slideshow video of our own wedding photos: Your Wedding Memory Video

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The Italian magazine Marie Claire has recently posted an article (in Italian) with many helpful tips and resources for the couple planning their dream wedding.

We are proud to have our wedding planner featured among the selected resources discussed in the helpful article.

Feel free to read the article for yourself: Wedding Survival Kit

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It is amazing how many wedding days turn out less than perfect because of health issues arising from changes in lifestyle and the stress of weddings. Brides trying to fit into a dress tend to under-eat and under-drink. These changes in behavior together with extra stress can cause problems on the wedding day such as discomfort, fainting, and even a hospital visit.

We have recently come across a blog entry that we want to share with you. The blog gives 25 tips for staying healthy before and on your wedding day. See the 25 Wedding Health Tips here

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Are you looking for free wedding planner advice?

Expert wedding planners, Tim and Lisa Spooner, are well known for their popular book “Wedding Planning on a Budget.”

Now they have made a FREE Mini-Guide available for wedding planners such as yourself.

The Mini-Guide covers the following topics:

• How to get your wedding dress super cheap
• Make your wedding ceremony extra special
• Make your wedding day stress-free
• Save a fortune on flowers
• Achieve the wedding of your dreams
• Set your marriage up for success
• Put your wedding dollar through the super stretcher

To claim your Free Mini-Guide, go here: Free Wedding Planner Mini-Guide

We wish you a Happy New Year!

We hope that the past year was wonderful and that this next year is absolutely spectacular!

Do you have a wedding to plan during this new year?

Congratulations!!!

For people around the world, this is a time of reflection on the past year and a time of making wishes for the new year.

This is also a time when people make a special effort to make a positive impact on their own future by making a personal decision. Ideally, these decisions are fully backed by the person’s willpower and the person shows great determination in reaching their goal. That makes it a resolution.

Have you considered making a resolution to plan a beautiful wedding that reflects the spirit of your united love?

Have you considered making a resolution to plan your beautiful wedding on a budget that you can afford?

We hope that you make these resolutions as you face a new and wonderful year.

You should support your resolutions with action!

1. Draw out a plan of what your wedding should be like.
2. Figure out how much money you can afford to spend on your wedding.
3. Create a plan that will allow you to reach these goals.

For help with these action steps, please download our wedding planner, Wedding Planning on a Budget. There is a small download fee of $19.95 but this is really next to nothing compared to the hours of wasted time, piles of spent money, and nights of unnecessary headaches that you will surely avoid by using this powerful wedding planner.

You can learn more about the wedding planner by visiting this information page.

We wish you a happy new year, a great wedding planning experience, and all your dreams come true!

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Wedding planning is a huge task requiring extensive and careful organizing.

For most brides and grooms, their wedding is the largest event they have ever had to be responsible for planning. It can be overwhelming if you do not have the right tools.

We keep our ear to the ground and have recently come up with a new resource that is just now becoming available to brides and grooms like you.

Free Wedding Software is available to anyone with internet access. The Online Wedding Software features budget wedding spreadsheet creation tools, to-do-list planner tools, and even idea organizer tools.

This free online wedding software does not take up any of your computer’s harddrive because it is located entirely online. Also you can export your data to excel.

We feel that this wedding planning software stands out from other similar tools not only because it is free but also because it is very easy to use and aesthetically pleasing.

This tool is new and still being improved by its creators but you can start enjoying its benefits right now.

For those of you who have purchased our wedding planner, we are sure that you love the wedding software program we give away since it includes many more features than other wedding planning software programs. It includes everything you could ever want in a wedding software package.

But whether you have our wedding planner and its bonus wedding software package or not, you should still take a look at this new wedding software that has just become available since it is free to everyone and very simple to use.

We wish you stress free wedding planning!

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For all you Facebook users out there, we have just created a new page called Wedding Planner - Wedding Planning on a Budget.

Please join us and share any ideas you have for planning a wedding on a budget on the page’s forum.

Those who become a fan before December 1st of 2007 are eligible for a special gift - you do not want to miss out on!

Here is the Facebook Page’s address:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=7350541974

The author of Internet Riches (the #1 Best-seller on Amazon.com’s E-commerce bestseller list and #1 on other popular best-seller lists), Fox Scott, has just featured our Wedding Planning on a Budget business in his newsletter and on his popular blog.

You are welcome to read the story for yourself.

We have found a helpful wedding budget template created by Microsoft.

It is an excel file that can be edited to meet your specific needs; however, you are likely to find it to be adequate as is. It displays your estimated and actual wedding budget costs as you enter them. It also keeps track of your total wedding costs. We hope you find this tool to be quite helpful in your wedding planning. Let us know how you like it!

You can view it and download it here: Free Wedding Budget Planner Spreadsheet

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