10 Skippable Items in Wedding Planning
Planning a wedding is a constant “pros and cons'' weighing session. Is it worth it to book X vendor for Y price and cut Z vendor from the list?
Now this could be extremely complicated if you haven’t thought about your expectations along with your priorities. Before you get into the nitty gritty, we highly recommend thinking about your Must-Haves, and your “Skippables” in the planning process. So, here’s a list of what we think is “skippable” to save some money.
1. Save the Dates – now I get it, these are adorable, and sometimes an important method to let family know your wedding plans. Just consider the alternatives, as postage and stationery can add up very quickly. Perhaps you send a digital save the date, or just call family members and let them know, or send a simpler version, and splurge on invites (i.e. doing letterpress on invites only)
2. Wedding Gifts to Each Other – now I’m all for something sweet and sentimental, but don’t feel forced to drop hundreds on your soon to be spouse if you both agree to perhaps save in this area. All in all, you’re giving each other the best gift already – marriage.
Now the remaining items on the list are all wonderful ideas, and can be beautiful additions if you budgeted for it, but please don’t feel pressure to pay for every little item possible in wedding planning:
3. Menu Cards
4. An Aisle Runner
5. Designer Shoes
6. A Guestbook – I love these, but there are affordable and non-affordable options for this .
7. An Expensive Cake
8. A Post-Wedding Brunch or fancy schmancy rehearsal
9. Favors
10. Chair Covers
Again, some of these are GREAT, and may be important to you, and if so – spend away, bride! The goal of this blog is to simply encourage you that it’s okay if you keep it simple, and don’t pull out all the stops if you don’t want to.
Just do what speaks to you.