Budget for your marriage NOT your wedding!
Look what I found today! It is the actual budget tally for our wedding 20 years ago… We had 200-300 at the ceremony and around 150 at the reception. We cut corners everywhere we could: Catering was a voucher and friends / family chipping in. For cars, we found an old Holden lover. For table decorations we did ourselves – bowls with pebbles and fish.Sharmini’s dress? Borrowed. The rings – secondhand. The total including catering, hair, cars and photography? All in $3,070!!! At that time, that was a *huge* amount of money for us, I clearly remember the $300 to rent chair …