To budget or not to budget

Sunflower08 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 12:25 PM

To budget or not to budget

Do any of you ladies have a budget or are you paying as you go (like me) ....but we are soooooooo trying to find deals!!!!

MillerFord742008 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 12:31 PM

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paying as i go...but we know we're not going to spend a certain amount on something

Mrs. V 2008 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 12:32 PM

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paying as I go..but I need to start considering a budget

Sunflower08 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 12:33 PM

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It's not so much the cost of this and that...but when you have to add in the tips and tax.....wow that truly makes a difference.

MillerFord742008 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 12:35 PM

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Yes ur right I think I need to do that also!

ant n tilde Posted: Dec 31, 2006 12:42 PM

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well i use the budget calculator on here - AND - every few months i just make my budget a little higher so i dont go over and i feel better about myself

Sunflower08 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 01:07 PM

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It's so hard to leave things out that we have always pictured since we've been little...but oh well I quess I can do without the horse drawn carriage, doves, and celeb. guest speaker ha ha ha ha ha............oh how things change when we grow up

megzzie Posted: Dec 31, 2006 01:34 PM

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We're paying as we go, but we're not going to spend an outrageous amount of money for anything. We'll know when we can't afford something.

Autumn08 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 01:56 PM

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Well my original bdget is unreasonable. I have an idea of what I'd like to spend. And what I consider too much. I've plugged my highest limit into a budget calc. so as I shop around I have an idea of what I should spend on each vendor. Sometimes like photography you can get away without getting the extras and save money that way. I'm taking advantage of the amount of time I have to really shop around. Driving FH crazy but getting good prices.

Autumn08 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 01:57 PM

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If you deal in cash they won't charge you the tax. Make sur eyou get and save reciepts.

ant n tilde Posted: Dec 31, 2006 02:02 PM

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yeah, my original budget ( which i created BEFORE i booked my hall) ended up being the price of the hall plus about $5K

obviously that isnt going to work out! I heard a good start for a budget is double what you are paying for your hall - i am almost done with the big vendors and I think that is a reasonable guess

Espo22 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 02:14 PM

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paying as we go but what i did was basically estimate how much my wedding would cost.

You know in the magazine when they show you a breakdown and have things you dont even think of...well i already know how much rh will cost so that helps alot...then i estimated all those other things, and didnt do under like alot of people do bc they just hope theyll spend that much..then i calculated how much each fh and i would make until our wedding, then i divided the budget by how much we make, then took that amount and divided it to see how much we need to put aside every paycheck...this way i can put whatever i need into savings and then the rest stays in checking and i can spend freely without having to worry about it.

karen6474 Posted: Dec 31, 2006 02:27 PM

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so far paying as we go! so far most of the majority of our vendors are booked now we just have to set aside payments for all of our vendors but so far we are doing good as paying everyone