Savings Tip #17: Write a Wedding Newsletter
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This is something I plan on doing in the near future, but it is almost a form of begging in my opinion, only a little more discrete. It could be very fun and productive, though.
The idea is to create a wedding newsletter that is all about you, your fiance, and your wedding plans. Basically, you would create a regular email newsletter, with similar content to the Saving for a Wedding blog and you would mail it to all of your friends, all of your family, and maybe even neighbors and coworkers. You would tell them all of the latest occurrences with your wedding planning. If anything major happens like going to try on wedding dresses or taste testing wedding cakes, you would include it in the email to everyone.  Give them a short story of your adventures, maybe some pictures, and try to ask them to visit your wedding blog in hopes that they will click on your Google Adsense links. You could also ask them to donate to your wedding mini-fundraisers or flat out ask for money.
It’s really a good idea and your “audience” would be extra receptive, because they love you!
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June 22nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Some of your posts are great. This one contains terrible advice. Asking your guests for money is never okay. And all your guests do NOT care about every step of the wedding planning process. Really, they don’t. Especially your neighbors and coworkers. Even if clicking on some links will raise you $2.00. A wedding newsletter will tell everyone that you are self-centered or have an inflated sense of self-importance.
$5,000 is a very reasonable amount to spend on a wedding and I commend you for not assuming that a great wedding must cost $25K+. However that doesn’t change the fact that asking your guests (or people you might not even invite, like neighbors!!!) for money is unacceptable.
For what it’s worth, we had a wedding for under $8,000, and our generous parents are sending us on a honeymoon. If we didn’t have the money, we would have eloped. Oh, and our guests (fewer than 100) gave us more that $2500 in cash which was totally unexpected. You might count on people’s true, unsolicited generosity. If they want to give, they will. Without being asked.
Love, an Indiebride
September 9th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Haha, tell me how you really feel
j/k I don’t think that I’d really recommend begging for money either, but it’s always an option for some people.
On the other note, Adsense isn’t asking for money. It’s more asking for time.
Thanks for the comment!
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