Costs

Through my premature browsing I am seeing a trend on budgeting weddings and where to cut costs and where to spend a little extra. I don't remember where I read it, but the statement was that weddings guest remember these things: the dress, the food, and the entertainment. I think the setting may have been one as well. Anyway some of my recent browsing through magazines have been to get ideas of how to cut cost in other areas like favors and centerpieces. 

Quoc and I are setting aside time soon to sit down and calculate our finances for the next 2+ years. Remember, I am going to stop having an income starting mid-august. Luckily I have saved a good bit of money and I will be taking out a number of loans for school. Again, luckily my school is relatively inexpensive in relation to other local programs. However, I still need to have money for a cost of living not to mention money for a wedding and numerous house projects. With our budgeting we need to figure out how much money we plan to allot for the wedding before we can plan anything for it. I googled the average cost for a wedding in 2007 and there was an article on MSN from a knot.com survey. It goes through the average cost of a dress to the average number of guests. I thought it was pretty informative and interesting. Enjoy.