Today is our wedding anniversary! We have been celebrating it all day long. This morning, Tim surprised Lisa with an anniversary card and a big chocolate chip cookie, for lunch we went to our favorite restaurant — Yokahama with fabulous Japanese tempura. If you are ever in the Fort Wayne, IN area, definitely give Yokahama ...
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We have just written an article that will be picked up by various wedding magazines and websites. As a subscriber to our blog, you get to hear it first! Here is the article in its entirety: ———————————————————————————————————– Make Your Tight Wedding Budget Your Greatest Asset! -by Tim and Lisa Spooner www.weddingplanningonabudget.com © Tim and Lisa ...
What if the wedding of your dreams isn’t the wedding you REALLY want? To put it another way, growing up you imagine all these things about your wedding which fall into two categories: 1) Physical aspects of your wedding 2) Emotional aspects of your wedding In your mind as a child, it was difficult to ...
The wedding and setting up house are two very expensive lifetime transitions. The good news is that we don’t have to go through these transitions alone. By signing up with a gift registry and letting your friends and family members know, you allow your friends and family — your community — to have an active ...
Planning a wedding is truly a social event — almost as social as the event itself! When planning your wedding, do not be astonished that everyone wants to have a say on your wedding planning. Although it is tempting to say “Bug off! This is my wedding and I’ll plan it the way I want ...
Wedding planning is a lot of work but it is so worth it! On that magical day, you will finally be able to display for all the world to see your overflowing love for one another. There is nothing more precious than the moment when the bride and groom with dancing eyes come nearer and ...
There are some weddings that are so stereotypical of weddings and so cut and paste that you leave thinking, “Once you have seen one wedding, you have seen a thousand.” You know exactly what to expect and you are not let down – unless you were hoping for something extra! Do your guests and yourself ...
The wedding of your dreams is perhaps the biggest event you have ever attempted to plan. You know that in the oceans of information available on the world wide web, there are the answers you need but one can only swim so much of the ocean by her or himself without becoming exhausted. Here is ...
We strive with each post to address pertinent issues concerning planning a wedding on a budget. For more generalized wedding planning advice, visit our friends at WedAlert. They have a very popular wedding planning blog — and for good reason! They have recently posted two blogs on the issue of families and future-in-laws — a ...
If the mere mention of the word “budget” makes your hands clammy and puts a look of terror on your face, you are not alone! Do not fear! Tim and Lisa are here to help you better understand the term “budget.” Like other techy words, the word “budget” can result in confusion and dread. Here ...
It is common knowledge that one of the biggest sources of trouble in troubled marriages is financial difficulties, so why do so many brides and grooms start their married life with an outrageously expensive wedding that leaves them broke? That just seems like a really stupid way to start your married life together. Take the ...
We talk about budget weddings but what qualifies as a budget wedding anyway? Would a $50,000 wedding be considered a budget wedding? How about $25,000? $10,000? $5,000? Where do you draw the line? Well we know that last year in the United States the average wedding cost well over $26,000. Does the wedding need to ...
Okay, so you go to a friend’s wedding and it is absolutely gorgeous. Every part of the ceremony is well-thought out and simply glowing with the sweet love that is sure to keep your friend happy forever. The thing is that later you talk to your friend and find out that a relatively small amount ...
Okay, so your father isn’t Daddy BigBucks and you aren’t some chic or dude on the cover of Celebrity Magazine. Well, welcome to the club! No one here has a father with a million dollar bank account financing our wedding and we surely aren’t rolling in the dough! But we do have our wedding dreams ...
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After saving $22,000 on our dream wedding, we decided to help other couples plan beautiful, affordable weddings.
We wrote Wedding Planning on a Budget to reveal how we pulled off our dream wedding at an expense of just $2,000. Our book is available as a download.
We hope our book and this blog are a great help to you as you plan your wedding.
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