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Wedding Superstitions

  • July 20, 2009 at 6:24 pm

When we were planning our wedding, we were surprised at all the superstitions we came across.

They were all essentially the same: If you don’t do this or that or if such and such happens, then you will not have a happy marriage.

Here are a few examples of popular wedding superstitions…

  1. On our wedding day we had a guest complaining that we should not have scheduled our ceremony for the noon hour because apparently it is bad luck to get married while the minute hand is falling. Instead, you should say your vows when the minute hand on the clock is going upwards. This makes you work together in your married life together.
  2. Another superstition is that if it rains on your wedding day then you will shed many tears during your married life.
  3. Alternatively, rain on your wedding day may mean that you will be blessed with many children. …Do you think the many children and many tears are connected somehow? just kidding.
  4. We have also heard it said that if your wedding dress is ripped on your wedding day then your marriage will end in death. Sounds horrible but shouldn’t that be the goal?
  5. It is supposed to be a bad omen if the newlywed wife stumbles as she walks into the house – that is why she is carried over the threshold.
  6. It is recommended that a bride put a penny in her shoe to ensure wealth in her marriage.
  7. It is popularly considered bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding ceremony.
  8. Another superstitious belief is that it is good luck for the bride to get married in white.

Whether superstitious or not, we find that many brides have an unspoken expectation that if their wedding day is perfect then they can expect a perfect marriage.

Newlywed GuideLike the above superstitions, it is silly to think that your wedding day has to be perfect in order to enjoy a perfect marriage.

Of course, you should want your wedding day to go well. But don’t put so much pressure on your wedding day.

If only it were as simple as having one good day to make all the future days of your marriage go well too. The truth is that you will have to put a conscious effort and energy into each and every successful day of your marriage.

As you plan your wedding and even on your wedding day, don’t assume that your wedding planning efforts and perfect ceremony and reception are giving you a perfect marriage. Your preoccupation with wedding planning may be hard on your relationship. Make sure that you are finding quality time for one another and that you haven’t lost sight of the one thing that will give you a happy marriage: Loving Commitment to the Successs of Your Relationship

To show you how we have achieved a very happy marriage (going on 6 years now) despite violating quite a few wedding superstitions, we want to give you a copy of our newest book: The Newlyweds’ Guide to a Happy Marriage: How to Keep that Honeymoon Feeling

Do you know of any wedding superstitions to share with us?

We would also be interested to know your opinion of wedding superstitions?

Watch This Interview and Learn Our Strategies for Wedding Planning on a Budget

  • June 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm

Since we were first noticed by the media for our success in planning our dream wedding for less than $2,000 we have accepted  a number of interviews for news stories, magazine articles, and so forth.

Usually, the reporters and journalists take a few tidbits from the interview and pass them along in their story and tell their viewers and readers to learn more about us at our website.

This last interview was different. For about 18 minutes the interviewer asked us in-depth questions and allowed us to share freely. The best part is that you get to watch the entire interview — not just a story drawn from the interview.

In the interview, we share great tips about how to save money on your wedding and go into detail about the contents of our book.

Now, finally, the interview is available for you to watch.

Access is limited. But we want you to have a free pass.

While there, you can enjoy listening to the other interviews available, which offer valuable marriage advice.

Aprenda a Como Ahorrar una Fortuna en la Boda de sus Suenos

  • August 4, 2008 at 8:59 pm

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: www.WeddingPlanningOnABudget.com/savings/

Keep Your Wedding Memories Forever

  • June 13, 2008 at 8:55 am

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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Wedding Health Tips

  • February 27, 2008 at 7:51 am

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

Contributed by Cheap Wedding Tips

Free Wedding Planner Mini-Guide

  • February 19, 2008 at 1:11 pm

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

New Wedding Planner Page for Facebook users

  • November 17, 2007 at 10:55 am

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

You Can’t Afford to be Average!

  • August 18, 2007 at 12:52 pm

More than 1/3 of couples getting married in the United States pay for their own weddings. Even more couples in the U.S. pay for at least a portion of their wedding expenses.

If you are a bride or groom reading this article, then you are probably one of the couples who are paying for or at least helping to pay for their own wedding.

Even as more couples get involved in planning for and paying for their dream weddings, the wedding price tag continues to grow more forboding. In the year 2007, according to CostOfWedding.com, the average U.S. wedding cost was $28,800. This figure is expected to steadily rise in years to come.

Today’s bride and groom have become so desensitized to the incredible expense of planning a wedding that they hardly stop to think about how much money that really is. Let’s take a moment to put that $28,800 price tag in perspective and look at a couple ways to make your wedding more affordable.

First, let’s consider that $28,800 is more than most brides or grooms bring home from work in a year.

Now, suppose a couple wants to save up for their wedding so they don’t go into debt. If they are saving for a $28,800 wedding, they should consider how much they should feed their wedding savings piggy bank each month. If they can only afford to save, say, $300 per month, they should plan on saving for a full 8 years ($300 x 96 months [that's 8 years]=$28,800). What engaged couple is willing to wait 8 years to get married?

We haven’t even considered that it takes considerable discipline to save $300 each month. Some might need to wait longer as they can only save $150 a month or even less.

Most couples choose to get married within a year or two of their engagement. If they are paying for their own wedding as more than 1/3 of couples do, they often plan their expensive wedding courtesy Visa or Mastercard. That saves them the trouble of budgeting and saving for all those years before marriage. Instead of saving before marriage for their wedding day, they spend those delicate first years of marriage after the wedding day struggling with debt and living uncomfortably frugal lives together. Their credit card company keeps them under its thumb for years as interest piles up on interest and the poor couple barely scrapes by.

We wish that we were exaggerating here but all too often this is the scenario in which young couples find themselves. All so they could glory in one splendid day marking the beginning of their marriage. Hoping that somehow the perfection of the wedding day would somehow rub off on each succeeding day of marriage, the couple had poured a year’s salary into that big day. The reality is that the expense of that wedding day is paid for day after day of their married lives and they realize all too late that financial stress is the number one killer of marriages.

Americans with their individualistic attitudes tend to believe that they are special and that the rules do not apply to them. Likewise, couples planning their weddings tend to think that they will be the exception. That they will somehow spend less than most spend or that they will somehow be able to pay their credit cards off later without much problem.

Well, if you are not careful, you will soon discover that you are not exempt from the norms and that you are all too average. You will discover yourself in a quagmire of financial stress and marital disharmony day after day for years all for the sake of a wedding that was bought at a much too high of a price – we regret to say that it could even cost you your marriage.

What should you do? Stop being average. Stop planning your wedding the way most young brides and grooms plan their weddings.

Set a realistic spending allowance for your wedding – a spending allowance that you and your lover can live with. Go into your wedding planning with your eyes wide open.

You really can have a wonderful wedding day on whatever price you are able to pay – whether that be $5,000 or just $500. You would be amazed at how far that money can go when you are committed to planning your dream wedding on your chosen budget.

We were personally willing to spend no more than $2,000 for our wedding. We worked out a strategy that allowed us to stay under budget while planning a very memorable and special wedding day that is on par with any other wedding we have attended.

We have written a wedding planner to guide you in your wedding planning. In the wedding planner, we guide you in creating a reasonable wedding budget and show you step by step just what you need to do to see your dream wedding come true while staying under budget.

You can’t afford to be average. Instead, be amazing!

Wedding Planning on a Budget is available as an instant download which can be read on your computer or printed at your convenience. To get your copy of this powerful wedding planning guide visit the Wedding Planner Download Page

We wish you the best and hope that you have an amazing wedding and a wonderful marriage together for the rest of your lives.

Contributed by Wedding Planning on a Budget

One Stop Wedding Planner Gallery

  • August 15, 2007 at 4:51 am

A wonderful new concept for brides has just burst forth from the horizon: The one stop wedding planner gallery.

You sit down with the consultant while sipping tea on the sofa and she helps you choose the best wedding professionals to help you with every aspect of your wedding from the selection of the venue to the photographer and the officiant. The consultant knows the local wedding professionals who can be counted on to provide you excellent service in your budget range.

She is essentially a middleman for the bride and the wedding professionals. You get the chance to view the work done by each wedding professional being considered without the hassle of running from one meeting to another. That way you can make the best choice and essentially interview each wedding professional all in one sitting in the course of one pleasant conversation. You also avoid having to deal with wedding professionals pushing themselves on you. You get to choose them or choose another vendor and they do not need to ever know.

The wedding planner gallery makes an otherwise stressful affair a simple, truly enjoyable, and comfortable time sitting on the sofa viewing slideshows and samples of what various wedding professionals can offer.

Planning a wedding should be fun and working with just the right wedding professionals and vendors is the key to making the wedding planning an enjoyable, rewarding experience.

Wedding galleries as described here are a new concept. We expect this wonderful concept to catch on quickly as excellent ideas usually do. To learn more about the wedding gallery that inspired this blog entry visit Wedding Gallery of San Luis Obispo or an article recently written about that gallery.

Contributed by Wedding Planning on a Budget

$30,000 Wedding – Too much?

  • April 13, 2007 at 8:00 pm

The rising costs of weddings has more and more U.S. couples asking themselves, “Is $30,000 too much for a wedding day?”

We have dug up two articles published by CNN back in spring of 2005. Although a couple years old, these articles raise some good points about how costly the average American wedding has become. We are sure that some of you will find that you can relate to these articles as you plan your own weddings.

As you read these articles, keep in mind that the avrage cost of a wedding in the U.S. has only gone up. According to CostOfWedding.com, U.S. couples spend, on average, $27,690 for their wedding. This does not include cost for a honeymoon, engagement ring, bridal consultant or wedding planner.

If you do not think that this is a ridiculous sum to spend on your wedding day, then you are probably not aware of the high class wedding you could have for just a few thousand dollars by following the strategies in our recently released wedding planner.

Here for your reading pleasure, are the two articles we have found for you:

Ka-ching! Wedding price tag nears $30K: Survey: Bridal spending tops $125 billion; parents less likely to foot ballooning bill
Published by CNN May 20, 2005

The blowout: A Texas couple wanted their dream wedding. $30,000 later, they wondered if they’d gone too far
Published by CNN April 29, 2005

Contributed by Wedding Planning on a Budget

Wedding Planner – Do your research!

  • April 7, 2007 at 10:39 am

Wedding season is upon us and if you are planning a wedding this is the season to do some research the fun way!

Get invited to as many weddings as you can stand and while attending take mental notes of what you enjoyed and disliked at each wedding. When you get home, write your thoughts down. This activity will give you lots of excellent ideas that you can implement into your own wedding planning.

As a wedding planner, by doing this research, you will soon have in mind a wedding that truly reflects your own unique personality.

It is best if you and your true love attend the weddings and receptions together so you can both discuss together what you liked and disliked about each wedding. That way you will come up with a wedding plan that you can both be happy with.

Contributed by Wedding Planning on a Budget

Our book on the News

  • January 8, 2007 at 7:06 pm

Last night and this morning our story and our wedding planning ebook were featured on two of Fort Wayne’s local TV stations.

 
21 Alive News

 

 

NBC 33

 

Dream Up Your Dream Wedding

  • November 18, 2006 at 9:25 pm

Before you can start planning a dream wedding you need to imagine the wedding that would fulfill your deepest desires and expectations. Don’t make the mistake of rushing into the planning stage without really understanding what it is that you are planning.

“A wedding” is not a good answer to the question “What are you planning.” There are all sorts of weddings. You should know that if you get invited to a lot of weddings. Haven’t you noticed that each wedding has its own unique features and flaws? Now it is time to imagine what you want your wedding to be like. What would make your wedding really special and successful in your own eyes?

So, take a time out. Sit down with your honey and imagine your dream wedding. Write it down.

Then it is time to start thinking about how you can make your dream wedding happen on your budget.

This can be a challenge. If you are on a budget as tight as ours was, you will need to figure out how to get most of your wedding at no expense to yourself or your parents. If that is true in your case, we highly recommend that you download our book that tells how we planned our beautiful dream wedding for less than $2,000. Follow this link: Budget Wedding Planner

Dream Weddings on a Budget

  • November 13, 2006 at 10:41 am

Our ebook was recently reviewed by a website specializing in sharing cutting edge dream weddings on a budget ideas.

We are pleased to see that the review calls our book THE BEST wedding planning ebook online!

Please read the review to learn more about our book: Click Here to Read the Review!

Have a Dream Wedding Without Nightmare Costs

  • November 8, 2006 at 10:15 am

We were featured yesterday on the front page of Fort Wayne’s newspaper – that’s our hometown so it is a proud moment for us. Here is the story: Have a Dream Wedding Without Nightmare Costs