22 money-saving ways to stretch your wedding budget as far as it’ll go
No bullshit: planning a wedding is MURDER on your wallet. It’s truly ridiculous. I also want to help you! So here are a few ideas on how you can stretch your wedding budget as far as it’ll go.
How Lady Gaga can help you save up money for your wedding
Wanna save up a ton of money, super fast? Offbeat reader Dora and her fiance have unlocked the secret. Would you believe it involves Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, and neighbors wearing camouflage? It does, and it works!
How dowry traditions relate to modern brides
How the old dowry tradition morphed into the tradition of the bride’s parents paying for the wedding and the feelings and ramifications behind that tradition.
What our wedding was really worth
I have financial guilt the way my Catholic friends have sex guilt. I do spend money; they do have sex. But it’s rare we’re entirely comfortable during the act, and we almost always question ourselves after. I can imagine so many other things to spend money on — good things, things that will last longer, things more deserving, things more logical.