How to Have an Elegant Wedding for $5000 : Achieving Beautiful Simplicity Without Mortgaging Your Future
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The Perfect Wedding Doesn’t Have to Cost Your Life’s Savings
Relax. You don’t have to mortgage your future to have the wedding of your dreams. According to mother-daughter wedding consultants Jan Wilson and Beth Wilson Hickman, the secret is in the planning. Here they tell you everything you need to know to plan a wedding that is both beautiful and affordable. Inside you’ll find a wealth of creative ideas and invaluable advice from couples wh… More >>
How to Have an Elegant Wedding for $5000 : Achieving Beautiful Simplicity Without Mortgaging Your Future
Although this is rated high up there with the many top wedding advice books, this still isn’t one of the best. My main and only problem of the book is where is the “budget” aspect of the book as it says in the title. They offer numerous and helpful tips and advice about planning a wedding, even an elegant wedding. But for those actually looking for advice on keeping a wedding under a limited budget, this isn’t the book. For real and practical budget advice, I recomend Bridal Bargains by D. Fields.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you are really trying to throw a wedding for under 5,000 you can’t afford this book. The book could have been called how to throw a wedding for 20,000 dollars. It really is a very basic wedding planner that has nothing to do with saving any money. The best book you could buy is Bridal Bargins. That book shows how to save money.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book should be titled something like: “Things to Think About When Planning a Wedding”. It contained very little money saving tips, which is why I bought the book.
Rating: 2 / 5
This fabulous, easy to read book is filled with many wonderful ideas on how to have a wedding on a small budget! While this book offers amusing stories of other couples’ successful and not-so-successful wedding ideas, its main focus is on getting you organized from the day after your engagement until the thank you notes have been sent out. Each chapter is filled with great organizational tips as well as tips for cutting costs. This book is definitly a must if you’re a starving college student!
Rating: 5 / 5
I regret ordering this book. I’ve rated it two stars instead of one, because overall, the book is a decent and helpful wedding planner. The problem is it fails to adequately address the subject for which it’s named: elegant weddings on a budget.
Another reviewer commented that it should have been titled “How to Have an Elegant Wedding.” (Not for $5,000 or less). I wish I’d heeded that advice!
I purchased this book to obtain suggestions and advice regarding how I can cut costs while still planning an elegant wedding. The first chapter does address the issue of money, but it simply states: “Set a budget, and stick to it.” ??? Almost every wedding planning book does that!
There isn’t much elaboration on the low costs, or ways to achieve low costs, other than some random statements from vendors and newlyweds, such as “Don’t spend money on wedding favors. We decided not to have them, and don’t regret it.”
There were also a few tidbits of advice that are so obvious they border on insulting: “Flowers will be more expensive around Valentine’s Day & Mother’s Day.” And, did you know that you can save money on attire by renting a gown or wearing your mother’s? 😡
I do like the way the book was written – the author is part of a mother/daughter wedding coordination team. She describes many real life examples of weddings she’s been involved in, but rarely as it relates to money!
I’m clearly disappointed because I expected this book to offer some kind of guidance, or maybe even some trade secrets, about how to find or negotiate bargains with wedding vendors. All I got was one chapter about how to slash categories from my wedding (e.g., videography, flowers, alcohol, etc.), followed by a wedding planner that failed to give specific money-saving advice.
Save your money: This is a well-written wedding planner, but offers very little specific advice or tips for the bride on a budget.
Rating: 2 / 5