A Hint About Your Wedding Planning

May 25, 2011 Uncategorized
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Every one wants to save money on their wedding.  In fact we all need to save money wherever we can.

What is the most effective way to cut your wedding costs?

Getting discounts from your wedding vendors!!  That’s really the answer.  Get a discount from the wedding vendor you’re going to use.

You can shop around, ask around about who is the cheapest, but what you really want is the vendor that will do the best job for you.  A vendor that will do what you want.  And that vendor needs to give you the very best prices possible.

The Wedding Discount Guide will explain exactly how easy that is for you to accomplish.

 

Check it out The Wedding Discount Guide

Wedding Planner Book Review

April 11, 2011 Uncategorized
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Is this the first wedding you’ve ever planned?

If you aren’t prepared, it can be a bit overwhelming and stressful. You want this day of all days to be the best day of your life. You’ve thought about this since you were a little girl. Now it’s time to actually plan your wedding.

Over the years I’ve worked with literally hundreds of brides and I’ve found there are three ways brides plan their weddings.

There are brides who hire a wedding planner. The wedding planner virtually takes care of all the details for you. When they come into our salon with their brides they can usually give me a good idea of the style, color and fabric of the wedding dress the bride wants. She already has most of the wedding vendors lined up either from previous relationships or contacts she will make.

Brides who can hire a wedding planner are usually easy to work with and stress free.

Next are the brides who are smart enough to seek help. They buy bridal magazines to see all the wedding styles. They go online to see what kinds of lists can help them to organize everything. They ask for help. These brides can save thousands of dollars on their wedding if they know where to look. I would say that 80% of the brides I get to work with are in this, what I call “Smart Bride” catagory.

There are two types of online resources – the free websites that give some hints and helps for the bride. These general sites typically give general information, some charts, calendars, and budgets. And the paid sites where you can purchase a wedding planner book or ebook. I’ve seen a number of these books that brides have brought into our salon.

The very best value that I’ve seen, and the owners of the salon agree is found at wedding discount guide. It’s the same wedding planner book that they give away free to our brides.

Personally I feel it could have a few more information on proper budgeting and it actually lacks details for proper wedding etiquette. But it’s super strong points are on saving the bride money. There is page after page of helps and hints for saving money. As a bridal consultant I now use one of the best ideas from the book to help my brides personally save from $200 to $500.

I can make a couple of phone calls for my brides and using the technique explained in this book I can guarantee to save money for every bride I work with….and I love doing it for them. Check it out at wedding discount guide.

The third type of bride plans her wedding “by the seat of her pants”. She just starts out and gets going. Our bridal salon is usually one of the first stops. She wants to get the dress of her dreams. She’ll ask me what to do next. She’ll ask friends what she should do and she’ll go from wedding vendor to wedding vendor placing orders and getting things done.

I hope non of you are the third type of bride. Let me encourage you to spend a little extra time and plan your wedding. Plan on saving money when you do too.

After Your Wedding – Save Money on Your Wedding Dress Preservation

April 2, 2011 Uncategorized
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The owners of the bridal salon I work for aren’t going to be happy about this post for you.

Saving money on your wedding can be easily done if you just follow the excellent advice in the wedding planner book that we give to our brides. It’s found here – wedding discount guide.

Saving money after your wedding is just as important.

There are many reasons to have your wedding dress cleaned and preserved. You may want to have your daughter or even granddaughter some day wear your dress. Many mothers make their first girl’s christening dress out of her wedding dress. Some use the material and lace to make a bassinet cover. Most brides just love the idea that their dress represents their wedding day and saving their dress brings those memories back. The dress is like a picture of the wedding only 3-D!

Wedding gown preservation can done in one of three ways. The dress can be taken to a local dry-cleaner. They will put the dress in with the rest of the laundry, usually no special attention to stains, and then the dress is given to you – cleaned. Second choice is the dress can be taken to a local bridal store. Bridal stores send the dress to a wedding dress preservation company to have the dress cleaned and preserved and then returned to them. Bridal salons need to charge enough to pay for the wedding dress cleaning and preservation plus cover their own labor costs and overhead. This can mean that you’ll pay $229 – $350 for their service.

The best option I’ve found is going directly online. I know the owners of the wedding salon I work for won’t be happy with me for sharing this with you. But there is a website myweddinggownpreservation.com that cuts out all of the middleman mark ups. You actually deal direct and save a ton of money.

The service is fantastic, I’ve had many of the brides I work with use their service and they love it. Plus they offer a lifetime guarantee on their wedding dress preservation. Hope this helps you.

Wedding Planning Books

March 22, 2011 Uncategorized
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It seems like there are hundreds of wedding planner book, the best one for real discounts on your wedding is found at wedding discount guide.  What can be done to help you will know that this one will help you most with your wedding plans?

To help you need a wedding planner book that will give you directions on what to do each step of the way.  But more than that you will need to discover discounts on how to easily stay within your budget.

There are many areas of your wedding that can be real budget breakers.  It’s easy to justify going over your budget when you find something you feel is a must have.  It can be the dress, the number of guests or even what gifts you should give to your bridesmaids.

Your wedding budget will normally cause you more stress than just about any other aspect when planning your wedding.  Unless you have an unlimited amount of cash, then staying within your budget will be important.

It seems like when it comes to wedding that vendors and suppliers have a special price list.  Just mention the word “Wedding” and it seems like the price goes up.  And have you noticed there are now so many “must have” items for your wedding.  Everything is presented to you as a needed item to complete the look, or it’s necessary because of tradition.  A good wedding planner book will help you understand which items really are necessary.

Only you can determine what really is important to you and your wedding.  Some brides feel the dress is the most important, it’s the item that defines the wedding, defines your look.  Some brides feel that having a memorable good time with their friends is extra important and spending extra for a live band and dj will accomplish that.

No matter what area or item you think is important there are ways to save money and still get what you want.

It’s recommended that you find a wedding planner book that will give you the general directions you need but specializes in saving you money.  Read through the table of contents and see where the emphasis is.  See if the book offers ways to save money.  Does it talk about discounts or specific ways to stay within your budget.

You can also find a good review that gives an un-bias report on what the book offers and how you can benefit.

Finding the right wedding planner book can literally save you thousands of dollars on your wedding.

It’s your special day, so make it special order a wedding planner book that will save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars – order the wedding discount guide .

Wedding Planner Book

March 9, 2011 Uncategorized
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A Wedding Planner Book can help simplify your wedding planning.  Where to start, what to do next, how to stay organized are all questions brides need to have answers to.

There are two categories of wedding planning books and advice.  One deals with the actual step by step process of getting everything ready for the big event.  Answering questions like should I reserve my venue first, get my photographer booked or purchase my wedding gown?

These wedding planner books will have charts, tables time-lines and fill in the blank areas to keep you organized.  Flying by the seat of your pants will not only cause frustration but it will cost you extra money.

A good bridal planner book will also provide you with detains about dress styles.  You’ll learn what styles look good on your body shape and size.  There’s a big difference in the way a wedding gown fits, if you are “pear” shaped there are styles that will emphasize you bust and waist and minimize your hips.  Having a bridal planner to reveiw can help you greatly in your shopping efforts.

It isn’t just about your wedding dress.  It’s about your wedding.

A good wedding planner, whether a book or a person, should also address having a budget and staying with it.  Wedding are expensive and they can easily get out of hand.  Running over your budget a few hundred dollars here and a couple hundred there can really add up.

As you look for a book to help you with your wedding plans, look for one that can offer expertise in saving you money.  You’ll discover that saving money is easier than you think.  It doesn’t always have to be cutting corners, or eliminating people from the guest list.

There are discounts out there to be had.  You need to learn how to take advantage of them and you can also learn how to create discounts when there aren’t any.  It is easier than you think to save money on all the aspects of your wedding.

Your guests will never know that you catering costs you 20% less than other brides pay for the exact same food.  Nor will they know that all the beautiful flowers came with a discount as well.

So when planning your wedding look for a wedding planner book that will give you the step by step directions you need and will also give you the details on how to really save money on your wedding.

It’s your special day, make it truly special.