Savings Tip #13: Beg for Your Wedding Budget
Tanner |
Thoughtfully composed by Tanner Filed under: Wedding, Financial Planning, wedding sponsors, Wedding Fundraising, Marriage |
This one is my favorite and probably most effective form of earning stacks and stacks of beautiful cash for getting married. Begging people to pay for your wedding sounds a little harsh, but it is really not as bad as you think.
1) Send out marriage notifications, just like you did for graduation. Yes, you were begging back then and received a bunch of $20 bills from your aunts, uncles, and cousins (yeah right, that was really from the aunts and uncles), so you might as well beg once again now that you have to pay a large sum of money for this wedding ceremony, reception, engagement rings, and wedding bands. Good God, that is a lot of cash that you need to pay.
Just pick everyone from A - K in the phonebook (white pages), including all friends, family, employers, employees, church members, neighbors, rich people that you know. Send them a cute (but cheap) little wedding card from the dollar store with a forever stamp saying how wonderful this wedding will be, how wonderful your soon-to-be spouse is, how wonderful THEY are, and how you’ve always thought they were a kind hearted sou. Customize the card to whatever they like, too. For example, if they love Beagle puppies, send them a cutesy Hallmark card with Beagles all over it. If they were a teacher, send them a card talking all about how you want to go back to college. You get the idea.
The more wedding notices you send out, the more money (FREE WEDDING MONEY) you will have coming back in. Don’t feel bad, this is certainly not (that) petty. I plan on doing it myself.
2) Flat out ask for cash. This is probably the most common wedding tactic. Traditionally, the bride’s parents will pay for the wedding (if they don’t want to, make them feel guilty and sad…j/k…not really). Nowadays though, it has become common for both sides of the family, including siblings and relatives to pitch in for wedding festivities. Go ahead and ask, the worst they’ll do is say no and be seriously insulted.
3) Online fundraising services work great, especially when spamming friends, family, and coworkers. Site like FirstGiving.com, Fundable.com, and Chipin.com all allow you to create a fundraising campaign specifically for your charity (wedding). Signup, create a quick page describing your time of need (marriage broketitude) and you can now set a goal of whatever you like ($5000 for a wedding) and spam the ever-living bejesus out of all of your colleagues asking for only $1 towards your extravagant Vegas wedding. C’mon, please…only ONE dollar. Don’t you love me?? Believe me, expect to see this function soon for me. I think it is so fun and cool and it even creates Wedding Charts!
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