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Looking for wedding budgeting tips, real wedding budget breakdowns, wedding budget hacks and advice? We’ve got it all. Also, be sure to snag our wedding budgeting spreadsheet to REALLY get your wedding budget handled.

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Lisa & Teri’s Fancy Neo-Victorian Parlor Wedding

Two gorgeous brides, two gorgeous dresses, lots of neo-Victorian details, and one bride shaking with joy.

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Obsidian & Wayne’s Gothic Halloween-Themed Wedding!

The offbeat bride: Obsidian, Secretary Her offbeat partner: Wayne, Warehouse Location & date of wedding: Royal Canadian Legion Hall Maple Leaf Branch No. 66 on October 14th, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario What made our wedding offbeat: After knowing my hubby for about 13 years we finally up and decided to get hitched. So we got […]

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Shanah & Jerry’s Gothabilly Wedding!

“Don’t treat your wedding like a competition, focus on the things that mean the most to you and your husband/wife to be, not what others are doing.”

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Tanya & Gavin’s wet and windy ship wedding!

We had been together for a while and decided to do the wedding thing our way. We wanted a small ceremony and we weren’t tied to any religious buildings, so after a quick search we decided on a ship.

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Planning A Wedding During A Recession

Planning a wedding is tough stuff. Unless you have a ton of disposable income or can count on the ‘rents for a large chunk, it can put a real dent in your wallet and in your credit score. Pile on a recession, sky high fuel costs, scarce job market and less than savory housing situation […]

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Sarah & Jenn’s backyard fairy wedding

“All of the guests humored us by dressing up in wings and fancy fairy garb, and our officiant was a happy purple fairy~ We were married at Twilight, and the entire ceremony quoted from Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) or was written by us, invoking all of the faerie realm.”