The Financial Reality of a Dream Wedding
By Ivette Attaud-Jones
You’ve finally gotten engaged and everyone’s happy for you – now what? What’s the next step? What should you know before you start planning the wedding of your dreams?
For starters, how much money you have on hand to spend. Planning your dream wedding takes a lot of thought and communication between you and your fiancée. It’s a day that symbolizes your public display of love for one another and you want the special people in your lives to share in it. Although it’s traditional to have the bride’s family pay for the wedding, nowadays couples pay for it themselves, or enlist the help of their families. If you both know what you want for that special day, including how much you’re willing to spend, There’s a good chance you won’t overspend. You can’t say, “I have X amount of money to spend – I don’t know how much he/she has to spend.” Being able to discuss finances openly and honestly with each other is one of the first steps to being a married couple. Short of going to City Hall, you will have to spend money - no matter what type of wedding you have.
