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If you are planning a wedding then you have probably started to ask a lot of questions about the best ways to get started. Wedding planning does not have to be too difficult if you plan out a reasonable budget, organize a step by step schedule, and manage your costs. Once you have read this article, you will be well prepared to plan the best wedding and reception ever!
How Should I Plan My Wedding Budget?
Very carefully! The budget is the most important first step of planning a wedding and you should make sure to do that as soon as possible. Here are some tips – once you know the overall size of your budget, immediately split it up into various categories. Typically the reception will use up 50 percent of the overall budget so you will want to make sure that you can provide a nice reception on that amount. Other big bucket items will include flowers, attire, photography, and entertainment. Each of these buckets should use up about ten percent of the budget, with the remaining 10 percent left for miscellaneous items such as the invitations.
How Do I Schedule the Planning Process?
A wedding is a huge project, which can be split into many different subprojects. Each subproject can again be split into many individual tasks or even more subprojects. The key to managing this whole process is to layout all of the projects (hiring vendors, planning decorations, finding reception site, finding ceremony site, etc …) next to each other and determining when each one absolutely must be completed in order to complete the ones that will come next. For example, it is important to find a reception site as early in the process as possible, because you can not finalize the plans for the DJ and caterer until you have the details of the space laid out.
How Can I Keep My Costs Down?
First, be realistic with yourself about fancy items and luxuries. There are going to be things that you have to cut from your budget without you last name is Hilton. There are two main ways to go about cutting your costs – find lower cost alternatives for each wedding component, or cut down the overall size of the wedding itself. Examples of lower cost alternatives might be serving an appetizer portion of beef Wellington to your guests during cocktail hour instead of offering a full entrée of it at dinner. Or, if you must have beef Wellington on the menu, consider dropping some people from the guest list.
Planning a wedding does require some time and effort, and you will want to start as early as possible. As you can see, by putting together a solid and reasonable budget, scheduling all of the individual projects properly, and targeting specific cost saving measures, you can have a wonderful wedding that everyone will enjoy and remember. Now you are ready to start planning for your big day!
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Source by Lisa Harris
