Making a wedding budget: what to consider

• Your current savings
• Your credit score (go into as little debt as you can)
• Alternative ways to fund it
• Keeping in mind unexpected life disasters that may occur before the wedding is paid off

Wedding budget breakdown

• Not all marriages are created equal
• What will make the cost of your wedding vary from others that other people may have?
  • Ceremony
    • Ceremony venue rental
    • Marriage license
    • Officiant
    • Ceremony music
    • Any decor needed
  • Reception venue, catering, and rentals
    • Reception venue rental
    • Catering (food, service, rentals such as flatware, stemware, china, linens, etc.
    • Bartending (service, alcohol, rentals such as glassware)

Wedding Budget Mistakes To Avoid

• Going into severe debt
• Not prioritizing your spending decisions according to your values
• Not tracking all spending
• Not doing what you can to cut cost/cost efficiency
• Not setting an absolute limit
• Not keeping an emergency fund
• Not considering alternative ways to fund it
• Beginning your wedding planning with terrible credit

Steps to creating your wedding budget

• Determine your values//how and what to prioritize
• Determine exactly how you will pay for it
  • Loans and credit cards?
  • Side gigs?
  • Savings?
• Itemize what you will pay in totality before you actually pay anything
• Determine who will pay what
• Choose the right wedding planner (allude to TQ CTA)

Conclusion

• Summarize key points (tell them what you told them)
• CTA to request a proposal from Traveler’s Q