subject: A Guy's Guide To Planning His Wedding [print this page] To most, wedding planning is a hassle that automatically gives people headaches. But it doesn't have to be that way. By taking care of the biggest obstacles, wedding planning can be relatively simple. The largest obstacles to success are building the budget, asking the parents to chip in, setting the date, and working out all the details. Once these things are done, everything else should be simple and fall into place.
The first thing that has to be done is that the couple should sit down and decide a few things following their engagement. They should determine the amount of money they'd be willing to spend and based on that information, decide on the location and who they'd like to invite. Then they're going to want to set a deadline to make everything easier , and lastly you just work on the minor details that pop up.
Determining the budget is the most important part of the wedding, because it dictates the amount of money you'll be willing to spend and what kind of options you can select. It also has a bearing on where to hold your reception, and what theme you want your wedding to have. There are a couple of things to keep in mind when deciding your budget. The amount of people you're looking to invite is a large factor. Often wedding services will charge on headcount, so the less people you invite, the more you can save in this area. The location also will factor into how much the wedding will cost. Having a wedding in a Spanish castle is going to be a little more expensive than holding it in a small church in Kansas. The location also determines how much the reception is going to cost, which will take up half of your budget. Make an estimate of how much you'll expect everything to cost, then schedule a meeting with the parents of both the bride and groom.
It's always hard to approach someone and ask them for cash, so your plan of action is to show them the estimate and ask them what part they would like to be involved with helping, or if there would be anything in particular they would like to contribute. Around fifty percent of the cost will be the reception, which accounts for booze, dinner, decorations, centerpieces, location rental, and things like cake and gifts.. You can expect a photographer and cameraman to set you back around a couple grand, while the ceremony will be around two grand. You'll then have to deal with other costs like rings, invitations, gifts, and flowers. Don't skimp on the big things, and if you need to, cut costs on the miscellaneous items.
You don't want to have to deal with this longer than you have to, so six to nine months of planning is optimal. Any longer would just allow for more mistakes to happen as time goes on. The benefit of having the date set in stone will give you a general idea of the timeline and help you decide when you'll need to send out invitations and hold rehearsals. You're going to have to lock down the reception site as well as the location of the wedding at this point.
Once you get most of these big things out of the way, everything else is going to be downhill. I wish you the best of luck, and hope it doesn't prove to be much of a headache.
by: Janet Poole
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