Bridesincharge.com - showing you how to SAVE on the cost of your wedding
Bridesincharge.com hasn’t been launched to turn you into the bride from hell. Instead it’s to give you the power to control all aspects of your wedding day, whether it’s how much you spend; who attends your wedding; having the wedding you first dreamed of, or simply being in charge of the running of the whole show to the finest detail.
Since the 1980’s, weddings have become one of the biggest challenges in milestone planning faced by women (and their soon-to-be partner). The costs alone are deemed to be beyond the purse of the average person. The scale of event often veers out of control; whether it’s to have the kind of wedding that impresses all others, or one remembered for the amount spent.
Bridesincharge.com has been designed to help you achieve the wedding you want, without bowing to the pressure of your well-meaning friends and relatives, and the wedding suppliers using your day, as their personal stage, high-jacking your big day and presenting you with a huge bill. It happens. The venue co-ordinator tells you what you can have, when you can have it and what it will cost. The photographers quite often steer you to packages that suit them and rarely craft their services to your details. And then, when you feel pushed and pulled in every direction, you’ll be told that ‘weddings are stressful events’ and you should be prepared for the nightmare ahead.
Stop right there!
This is where we start talking sensibly about the true cost of your wedding and how you can make savings of 10%, 20% or even 50% on the cost of supplies and services for your wedding. So hold tight. Initially it will be turbulent, and you may lack confidence in taking some of the guidelines on board, but it is designed to empower you in making savings of £1000’s – which will make any hint of a rough ride worthwhile in the end.
Your wedding does not have to cost more than you can afford, nor does it have to be a mountain of stress-related hurdles and it certainly doesn’t have to bring you to tears on a regular basis. It pays to remember that a wedding is a celebration of the love you have for another, displayed to the rest of the world, as your desire to form a loving family of your own, to last for an eternity. In brief, it’s an outward sign to show you’ve chosen a change in the way you live your life, being committed to one other person with whom you’ll share everything. It’s about you!
When you first decide to be married, you’ll be as happy as you’ve ever been and feel, to a large degree, wanted, cared for and comforted in the knowledge that you have found a partner who loves you for who you are. It’s a time of great happiness and joy. So hold that thought! Without realising it, some brides-in-training find the wedding ahead is all too often stolen and quickly turns into something of a 10 ton elephant, where you have to invite the opinions and preferences of not just one other, but sometimes dozens – all well-meaning for sure – but at the-end-of-the-day, it’s not their wedding.
Sure, you’ll take into account the wishes of your parents, financial controls, or existing commitments, or suggestions from friends on what you could or should do to make your wedding different from all others. But here’s where the melting pot of all outside ideas should have the lid put on it and your work begins.
Weddings aren't competitions to see who can spend the most!
The £20,000 plus, average cost of a wedding is at best misleading and at worst deceptive, so don’t buy into it. The true value of a wedding – your wedding – is the amount you are prepared to pay. That may be as little as £5000, or it might tip the scales at a staggering £30,000. What matters is that the mix of products and services you choose to have is down to you and not what the other 250,000 brides each year spend. Who cares what the others are spending! It isn’t a competition – or at least it shouldn’t be.
Statistics are put out on a regular basis from a wide range of ‘authority’ sources that must quite simply scare the living daylights out of many a young couple. I often wonder how many couples have either put off thoughts of a wedding, or borrow money on the basis of what the ‘experts’ say is the amount you must be prepared to spend. After all, ‘if those ‘in the know’ say it’s true, then it must be true’. Isn’t it? The generalisation of the cost of a wedding in the UK is both harmful and prohibiting, and I’m about to show you how to blow this myth wide open.
There is significant evidence that the industry of weddings, is suffering from an economic downturn and rather than being a bad time, this couldn’t be a better time for you to plan your wedding. Whether the economy is running wild or not, (and I’m not saying that it is) it presents golden opportunities to negotiate terms with each and every purchase for your wedding.
