Is it WORTH it?

Photo Credit : fee.org

While first becoming a fiancé, you feel love, happiness, butterflies, and endless amounts of happy tears. Once the wedding planning starts happening, there maybe some traffic jams when adding everything and anything that you want to be apart of your big day. For example, money!

Weddings can be more expensive than you ever thought possible. When I started planning my big day, I knew that I wanted to be simple, rustic, yet elegant. When I started searching "wedding" themed anything, the price skyrocketed! However, if I typed, "invites" instead of "wedding invites", the price was cheaper. Another example would be, if I typed "small basket" instead of "flower girl basket", I was left with very similar results with an immense price difference; even if buying a pack of fake flowers to glue onto the plain basket to give it more class, it was still the cheaper decision. 

Although I felt way over my head with the expenses of putting together a wedding, I slowly found tricks that made my dreams more tangible.  

Planning a wedding now a days, venues charge far more than they used to. From what my Grandma told me, when she was getting married, she was able to have a gigantic Polish wedding for roughly $1,000! Today, that is almost nearly impossible.

Do not fear, newlyweds! There are various ways to budget a wedding without leaving a hole in your wallet. You just need to think outside of the box, be creative, and let your mind run wild.