Spinoff to budget post: Saving Money for the Wedding (w/ Poll !!!!)

Original post by ellie424

Apr 20, 2010 12:02 PM

How far along are you with saving for your wedding (including honeymoon)??

eta: You can add in what you already paid vendors because technically that is part of the budget.

futurestevens Posted: Apr 20, 2010 04:57 PM

Re: Spinoff to budget post: Saving Money for the Wedding (w/ Poll !!!!)

we have about 25% of our total wedding cost in savings...although we have put a few thousand down already on major vendors. additionally, his parents and my dad will be contributing towards the wedding that i don't have included yet

smilesjc81 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 05:12 PM

Re: Spinoff to budget post: Saving Money for the Wedding (w/ Poll !!!!)

we've got about 30% saved - we are not gonna be in debt for the wedding- we are making sure we have 110% of the budget in hand before the wedding date LOL

FutureMrsPanuch Posted: Apr 20, 2010 06:38 PM

Re: Spinoff to budget post: Saving Money for the Wedding (w/ Poll !!!!)

I say we have about 30% saved.. i say this b.c with 431 days left we pretty much only have a little more than 1/2 of the RH saved. flowers and limos are being given to us by our parents and a lot of the 'little things are coming out of my every week paycheck (invites, favors, BP gifts etc) So we still need to save for the photog, and DJ but 1/3 of the photog is paid already so i think we are doing ok as of right now... well see how i feel a couple of months from now...

JessNicole7EM Posted: Apr 20, 2010 06:48 PM

Re: Spinoff to budget post: Saving Money for the Wedding (w/ Poll !!!!)

I have the whole wedding paid off...

Now I'm just working on the honeymoon.

ElovesJ117 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 06:49 PM

Re: Spinoff to budget post: Saving Money for the Wedding (w/ Poll !!!!)

I voted 76-100% of our wedding money is saved because we definitely have the money if we had to put it all down right now but we also have the down payment savings incorporated into that money. Either way we are diligently saving which ever way you want to look at either for the house or the wedding.

About 2 years ago, FH and I were dating for 3 years and I told him we should open two separate accounts but put money into them for our future. (I always knew I was going to marry him lol) I told him even if we broke up at least he would have a nice savings and if we stayed together at least we would have something saved for the wedding and house. My obsessive planning of the future finally payed off!