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budgeting

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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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!

Vintage vibes at this 1970s-inspired NY waterfall vow renewal

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.

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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.

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Lindsey & Nick’s Oregon Coast adventure honeymoon

Lindsey & Nick’s relationship began on an overnight trip to Seaside, Oregon, so it was only natural that they return to the Oregon Coast for their honeymoon. And they did it all on a micro budget!