Planning your Wedding
July 31, 2009
Here are some of the things you absolutely need to consider when planning your wedding:
• The Date of the Wedding
• Venue
• Time
• Size of the Wedding
• Entertainment
• Cake
• Wedding Gown (and Tuxedo)
Planning a wedding (as you can see) involves a lot of factors. All of these topics will be explored in more detail here in the up-and-coming weeks. For now, a quick word about each of them. The date of the wedding is usually the first thing to be decided upon. Different times of year have different prices.
Depending on the venue you choose, it is often possible to get a discount for dates after big holidays, since these are not the majority of people’s first choice for a large event. The time of the wedding is also important, as your budget will be affected by whether you choose to have an earlier reception or one in the evening.
One fun idea: When choosing a cake, invite some family and close friends to try a variety of different cakes. This gets the whole family involved and can be especially fun for small children.
Be sure that you brides start looking well in advance for a gown. This ensures that if you have problems early on with fitting or pricing, you can always adjust your plans. The same goes for men and tuxedos. In fact, try to plan everything well in advance so you can enjoy your wedding without the stress that all too often goes along with it. After it, it’s about you!
More Makeup Tips
July 27, 2009
Here are a few more make up tips for the brides and bridesmaids out there that are guaranteed to help you cut back on your wedding budget.
After drinking water to hydrate your skin, you need to get your eyebrows in order. Well groomed eyebrows are essential for a bride on her wedding day. You need to make sure you have them shaped the weekend before your wedding and make sure to tweeze out any stray hairs that you see the night before (if you want, ask a friend if you are too nervous). On the day of your wedding, use a little hairspray on your eyebrow brush and brush them into place. This will keep them in place all day and have everyone thinking you used professional make up.
As a bride, you want people to notice your eyes, as they are often call the gateway to the soul. Nothing will make people notice them like well-curled feminine eyelashes. This step, for some odd reason, I find gets skipped a lot among women. Is it possible that they don’t know how to use an eyelash curler? Make sure you can see yourself when you curl your eyelashes so you don’t pinch your eyelid and always apply mascara right after curling. Water proof mascara is a good idea since you maybe making some waterworks on this joyous day.
Now we’ve covered your skin, eyebrows and eyelashes, and there are still more tips to come on lips and eyes so check back often…
Make-up
July 26, 2009
When planning your wedding, you or your bride (depending on which of you is reading this) will have to think about make up. To a man this is a probably not something even considered, but nonetheless it can have a big effect on your wedding and its budget. Professional make up artists are expensive and may not be a luxury you can afford. In the end, it is about priorities. If you choose to not hire a professional though, you are not alone. More and more brides (and bridesmaids) are choosing to do it themselves. There are a few helpful hints that can help you do this, which I will explain now. (If you’re the groom, save this for your future wife to read.) One tip is to keep your skin rehydrated.
Caffeine, alcohol, soda. These things are all very dehydrating and take a toll on your skin, leaving it looking dull and dry. It can also lead to puffiness and dark circles around your eyes. However, switching to drinking just water before your wedding can undo a lot of this damage and improve the overall texture and tone of your skin. This will let you have that distinctive that all brides want without the expensive make up artist.
Isn’t that a great tip? There’s more coming soon, so be sure to check back often!
Wedding Budgets
July 22, 2009
Hello and welcome! Here at WeddingBudget we are happy to have our new blog underway. We’re going to be talking about a wide range of topics that every couple deals with in the planning and preparation of their wedding. Specifically, how you can create a realistic budget and stick with it because as you know all too many people budget a certain amount of money for their wedding and end up spending much more. This is largely due to the fact that things rarely go as we plan and a wedding is an extremely exciting time for all parties involved, but I think there is another reason too which I am going to address in this post.
So here’s a budget wedding tip: know the information you use to create your budget. This might sound strange as first or seem self evident but let me explain. I have seen many brides-to-be plan their weddings based on bestselling books from bookstores. A great idea and you should get your hands on as much different sources of information as possible. But these books often use nation-wide averages for prices in the USA, not Canada, and sell them off as what you should be expecting to spend. Say you live in the Toronto area. If you do a little research you will discover that the average price for a DJ, live band, day of co-ordinator or full-on wedding planner is higher than the national average of the United States, which doesn’t have too much to do with us in Canada.
Essentially this means that if you are basing your numbers on a book (which may also be out of date and referencing another country), you might be in for a big surprise. So I repeat: know where your information is coming from and you won’t have any unexpected surprises regarding your budget.