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Budgeting Advice

How to save money on your wedding and make the most of your wedding budget — plus budget examples from real couples!

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Your wedding budget is a bat-signal: How to vet vendors for values (without feeling weird)

This one is for couples: Whether you’re dropping $5k or $50k, your wedding budget is a concentrated burst of economic power. One way to think of this massive spend is as a form of wealth redistribution. For one day, you are a micro-philanthropist, deciding exactly which businesses deserve your money. And this year of all years, putting your money where your values are really freaking matters.

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Weddings as Wealth Redistribution: How Your Budget Can Empower Marginalized Communities

Your wedding budget isn’t just an expense… it’s power. Instead of pouring money into corporations and status quo vendors, what if your big day could be an act of wealth redistribution? By intentionally hiring BIPOC, queer, and disabled-owned businesses, you can turn your wedding into an investment in equity. Let’s talk about it.

8 genius money saving tips for your wedding

Weddings can be beautiful and meaningful on any budget! That being said, who isn’t happier with a little more cash money in their pockets? We’re sharing these genius money saving tips for your wedding, including things you need to do before setting a wedding budget, ways to save on food, how to handle the limiting of Plus 1s, and how having a wedding website can actually save you money!

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Surprisingly inexpensive NYC wedding venues: TEA HOUSES!

Like most New York brides, I’ve been wondering how can I have an inexpensive wedding in NYC? I’ve been combing through the big commercial wedding websites for ideas of affordable wedding venues, and I found next to nothing that would fit my budget. Then I found tea houses as an inexpensive NYC wedding venue option!