Saving for a Wedding

Part 2 in our series of creative ways to raise money for a wedding has to do with creating a website many months in advance and spreading the word to anyone and everyone you know. You’ll want to tell your friends, family, and strangers about your website as much as you can. Keep [...]

So, we posted earlier that we had $45 saved from keeping leftover change. Well, while changing the oil in our cars, we dug through both of our cars and found another $7.50, bringing us to a total of $52.50. Not bad. We already have 1% of the total money that we need [...]

Tanner and I have been putting our spare change into a jar for a month or two. I counted that change today (by hand, with coin rolls) and we have saved $45!
I am very excited because although it isn’t much towards our $5,000 goal, it was completely effortless and painless. We generally don’t use change [...]

Right now, I have a few estimates for the ceremony at the Venetian. Some of these estimates are high, this is because I am taking the method of “preparing for the worst” so that either we will be properly prepared or we will end up saving money (remember, we are starting the budget with [...]

The plan is to have our wedding at the Venetian in Las Vegas, a small dinner afterwords, and then a small reception in Connecticut at my mother’s house.
So, in order to pay for the wedding and honeymoon (in Vegas) we are planning to budget for $4,000 leaving us a $1,000 buffer. This means we are [...]