How to Make Wedding Planning Pay Off

How much do wedding planners cost? Well, it might not matter if they save you more money than you're paying them. Here's how it works...

It’s Friday, which means Ask Team Practical with Alyssa! Wheee! Today we’re talking about budgets and weddings. Back at the beginning, the APW tagline was “Creative. Thrifty. Sane.” And we spent a whole lot of time talking about wedding budgets. But these days, we talk more about emotion, and less about the emotion of wanting to gouge your eyes out while paying for your wedding. So, I’m thrilled to dive back into budget talk today, after a week of talking about low key weddings, and surviving unemployment. Plus, Alyssa is dishing on surviving her wedding planning with a lot of debt, …

Alexa von Tobel, CEO of financial planning website LearnVest, dishes on how to stay financially sound while planning your wedding.
Tags: Married Life, Wedding Budgets, Wedding Planning

Ever since I got engaged, planning my wedding has been a financial challenge—especially since I’m both a sentimental and thrifty person. On the one hand, I think: It’s a special day—the one moment in my life when I’ll be surrounded by all of my dearest family members and friends. So why not splurge? But I also think: I don’t have a huge income.
Tags: money, budget, saving money, weddings, marriage, negotiating, DIY, republished, Lifehacker

Ruth and Cameron wonder what the best way is to plan for a wedding and a family ... and eventual retirement
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By show of hands, how many of you want to pay off debt? That many huh? No worries, so do I and so does just about everyone you know.
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