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Budgeting a wedding without guesswork
Where the money actually goes, in what order to commit it, and the three line items people forget every time.
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The budget problem is rarely the total. It is the order of commitment: people book the emotionally exciting things first and discover the structural costs afterwards, when there is no room left to move.
Commit in this order
- Venue and date — everything else is downstream of both.
- Catering, because it scales with guest count and sets your real ceiling.
- Photography and video, the only things that outlast the day.
- Music and entertainment.
- Florals, decor and the rest.
The three people forget
- Vendor travel fees outside the standard radius.
- Overtime, which is billed by the hour and decided at 11pm by people who are enjoying themselves.
- Setup and strike windows the venue charges for separately.
Hold ten per cent back. Not for emergencies — for the decisions you will make in the last fortnight.
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