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How Hiring Professionals Can Actually SAVE You Money On Your Wedding

I will be the first person to tell you that when it comes to budget weddings and cutting costs*, I’m most definitely NOT your gal. But if you ask me to tell you how much to expect things to cost… now that’s a different story! The thing is, a good deal of the information that is […]

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What A Wedding Costs (When You Use Professionals)

Many of you may know that my goal for Every Last Detail is to educate brides- and the world- about weddings. A very large part of this involves spreading the word about what a wedding costs, and while it’s not always the happiest topic, it’s a very necessary aspect of wedding planning. And so, in 2012, I surveyed wedding […]

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The Truth About Creating A Wedding Budget

If you are one of the lucky ladies to get engaged recently, I’m sure you’re soaring on cloud 9 – and you certainly should be. But, I’m sure you’re also excited and ready to begin diving into the planning process, right? You’ve started searching Pinterest, reading wedding blogs (isn’t ELD the BEST?!?!), seeking advice from […]

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Wedding Budget 101

Recently here on ELD, we talked about the truth of what weddings really cost. Since then, I’ve also spoken to quite a few brides who weren’t sure about how to create their wedding budgets.  So to continue our discussion about what wedding costs and budgets,  I thought we could chat more about wedding budgets in general- because […]

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First Things First: Setting A Wedding Budget

Happy Thursday friends! For those of you who are recently engaged and new to Every Last Detail… CONGRATS and WELCOME! Thursdays are one of my favorite days here on ELD, because they’re full of wedding planning tips and advice- a little something that has lovingly been dubbed as “Thursday Tips”! (If you want to catch […]

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What Does A Wedding Cost? What To Expect When Using Professional Vendors

Hi everyone! So today I’m releasing something that I have been working on for a very long time- over a year actually. As some of you know, I’m on a mission to educate brides– because you can’t be expected to know about weddings when you’ve never planned one before! Well, for the last year, I have been […]

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{Thursday Tips} What Negotiation Doesn’t Mean

So last week’s Thursday Tips caused a little bit of a stir, huh? Some agreed, some didn’t… but best of all, it started a conversation. That’s what this is all about! The thing I need to point out though is that last week’s post was mainly in response to an article that I read, outlining […]

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Thursday Tips: Budget Before You Book!

It’s Thursday Tips time friends! Since Valentine’s Day has come and gone, the time of year that I so affectionately call “Engagement Season” is now over. Which means that for those of you who got engaged during the past few months, it’s time to get to planning! First things first, if you haven’t already read […]

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Thursday Tips: Do “Off Season” Discounts Exist?

So a few weeks ago, the topic of an “off season” for weddings came up amongst some of my Twitter friends. Specifically, whether or not discounts occurred during this “off season”. I asked around (aka on Twitter) about whether or not people thought an off season for weddings actually existed, and I pretty much got […]

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Thursday Tips: Why Do Weddings Cost “So Much”?

This week I’m fired up about all kinds of things- unethical business practices, budget, wants/desires, and design to name a few. Of course I always write my {Thursday Tips} posts about things that are firing me up, so for today’s I’ve chosen to go the budget route. Specifically to answer the question I’ve been hearing […]

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