Wedding Blog

Money. The most dreaded topic.

What to do with our finances after we officially become Mr. and Mrs.? I’m an independent contractor, meaning that I don’t get a regular paycheck, but work job to job. So for tax purposes, I keep close tabs on my business expenses, and have 2 separate bank accounts, one business and one personal. I only transfer money into my personal account to cover my…

I’ve been reminding (ahem, nagging) Mr. Kiwi to get his suit. With 36 days to go, we kind of need to get going on that. I wasn’t worried about my dad’s suit- he’s pretty easy to size off the rack. Mr. Kiwi, on the other hand, is a XXXL size, and about 6’2″, with thighs (muscular) the size of hams. I call them his “foghorn…

Last night I had a dream that Mr. Peony and I were on our honeymoon and having the time of our lives. When I woke up, I couldn’t help but be sad…..because we had just recently decided that we will not be going on a honeymoon.

When I first started budgeting for our wedding, I was taking national averages of vendor costs. It never occurred to…

Commenter Red had a good point about how most brides exceeded their initial budgets in our Real Reader Budgets post earlier today.  So we’d like to know how much your budget has changed from your initial estimate, to what it is now (mid or post planning).

Yesterday I accompanied Mr. Kiwi to the bank, for the reason of it being air-conditioned and banky-smelling. I have a weird love for the smells of places: banks, bookstores, laundromats. Anyway, after he made his deposit, we started walking out, and I asked him when he’d like to open our joint accounts.

All along, we figured we’d have a joint checking and savings. As of right…

An email we received yesterday:

I think it would be a refreshing change of pace to see a bride with the ability to spend on a whim, at least in regards to her wedding. I have yet to see one on weddingbee. Indeed, plenty of brides don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on weddings but, plenty of them do. Many people aren’t DIY-inclined…

There was a post on Gothamist yesterday about the NY Sun’s article on how bachelorette parties have turned so extravagant that friends have to pitch in hundreds or thousands of dollars to fly to a destination party, stay at a hotel, buy expensive dinners/spa treatments, etc. I’m sure that doesn’t come as much of a surprise to most of us, but the tone of the…

As a way to save more money, Mr. Kiwi and I have given up our Disneyland season tickets. The couple of hundreds of dollars will be better used at part of my dress deposit, or twice the floral deposit. So when I think of it that way, it’s okay.

Even though I hadn’t really gone to Disneyland that much before Mr. Kiwi, I now have this…

Hi,

I’m seeking advice on how to approach a specific money matter with my fiance. Here’s the situation.

Money has never been an issue between my fiance and I. Everything up until now has been separate, but now that we have shared expenses, I’m encountering an issue. Between the two of us, I’m the only one who has money saved up. I’ve been saving up money since…

Mrs. Bee here.

Real Simple Magazine’s monthly question in the most recent issue is “What’s the most surprising financial advice you’ve ever received?” One of the featured answers was wedding related:

Pennies, nickels, dimes, or quarters - hold on to your change. In just two years, I accumulated enough to pay for a nice chunk of my wedding.

In what ways have you and your SO cut back…

Ladies,

I am proud of all of our commitments to be financially savvy! I received several emails asking more about the planner we use and how the whole process works, so I thought I would post a little more about her services specifically.

She does all levels of financial planning from the first time someone ever meets with a planner, to managing millions of dollars.

She makes money…

Mr. Raspberry and I just finished our financial planning for the next couple of years. We have a financial planner we work with who manages our health and life insurance policies, and helps us manage our money and save for the future.

Specifically, she has changed my life insurance to partial whole life, started a life insurance policy for Mr. Raspberry, changed my health insurance…

Last March, when we first got engaged, I figured I’d have a ton saved for our wedding, no problem. The problem? I don’t have a ton saved. (Since you can’t see me, my head is hanging in shame).

While I never thought I’d get funding from my parents for the wedding (nor did I expect it), I also never thought it would be this hard to…

A few months after we got enagaged, I moved in with my FI. One of the biggest topics that was brought up, was how we would share the expenses. We decided that we would open up a joint checking account to pay for the living expenses and a joint savings as well, because we were planning to pay for the wedding ourselves. Aside from that,…

I’m a money cruncher. I love to break everything down to the last penny. So the budgets, forecasting, analyzing of m-o-n-e-y for the wedding is really fun for me. Strange, I know.

Like most brides out there I’ve been using excel spreadsheets to keep track of all of my credit card purchases, vendor payment schedules, small online purchases, and for budgeting purposes. I’ve been pretty good…