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Yes You Can: Make your $10,000 wedding seem like it was much more

Perception is key for a wedding.  It doesn’t matter how much you actually spent; what matters is that your guests think that you spent a lot.  The wedding industry pushes the fact that you should spend a lot of money on your wedding, however, you can use smoke and mirrors to create the illusion of significant wedding expenses.  Do not accept the prevalent notion that weddings, at least good,…

Yes You Can: Have a wedding for under $10,000

The under $10,000 wedding is the “holy grail” of having a wedding on a budget.  It is possible and it isn’t that difficult to pull off once you figure out how to properly balance the perception of your wedding and the costs to create that perception. The following weeks will detail how to pull off a $10,000 wedding and how to make it seem like it was far more than $10,000.  It is not a myth, it…

Do You Need a Save-the-Date?

A save-the-date is a nice, but generally unnecessary gesture.  For the most part, they arrive in the mail, people think “oh cool” and then toss it to the side without actually saving the date because the wedding day is so far away that there is nothing planned.  Or if something is planned that far in advance, the event is probably important enough to not be cancelled because of a wedding.

For a…

Setting the Wedding Dinner Music

It is hard to blame DJ companies for not wanting to do a lot of work.  After all, it is human nature to choose to do less work when presented with the option.  Wedding “dinner” music playlists typically entail a recycling of the same general light, usually forgettable music that is heard at every wedding.  But ask yourself, is this the music I want?  If the answer is no, then working with the DJ…

DJ companies – Time-consuming Policies and an Argument Against “Wedding Music”

DJ companies love passing out lists of the most popular wedding songs.  While this seems like a nice gesture, it also seems like a good way for a company that was just paid hundreds if not thousands of dollars, to be lazy.  Picking music off the predetermined list is a good way to make sure that the DJ does minimal work outside of dragging and dropping a few songs to ensure that the order is…

Finding a DJ company – Introduction

Compared to other wedding vendors, DJ companies are generally easy to work with, probably because there is a minimal amount of work that they have to do outside of showing up and playing songs that they have played hundreds of times before.

Selling points that DJs and DJ companies might use

In finding a DJ, several intriguing facts were learned.  One of the selling points that the DJ company we…

Wedding Food Tastings and Selection – Voting with your Wallet

Like many things, voting with your wallet is often the best option.  It will hurt to dish out significant money for a dish, but choosing the cheapest food option might be a way to voice your “protest.”  As long as the food is generally edible, your guests probably won’t mind.  After all, the bar for wedding food, as a whole, has been lowered to the point where it is easily forgotten.  As long as…

Wedding Food Tastings and Selection – The School Cafeteria Theory

Wedding food can be decent if you get it from a reputable caterer or restaurant, however, food that is prepared in large quantities has an inherent ceiling on its quality.  Shortcuts will be taken and, depending on the skill of the individuals preparing the food, these shortcuts can be “featured” to varying degrees.

Like selecting many other things for a wedding, choosing the right dishes to…