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Creating A Wedding Budget You Can Afford by: Alan Allport The most important part of planning a wedding is setting your budget. Your budget is important because it is next to impossible to know what you can afford for each major part of the wedding if you don't set an overall cost that is comfortable for you. You will probably find that deciding the budget is the hardest job to do because, of course, you want to have the best and most memorable wedding you can possibly have. The days when the wedding was paid for by the parents of the bride are almost gone now. Parents will often contribute to the wedding cost as a gift to the couple, but it is pretty rare for parents to cover the whole cost of the wedding. Usually this is because the parents simply can't afford it. But couples today often prefer to pay for their own weddings because it ensures that they can plan them the way that they want to without interference. These days, 4 out of 5 couples pay for their own wedding and it helps to know how your budget should be broken down. When creating your budget, you will first begin with the overall amount that you can afford to spend. The average wedding today costs approximately $'19
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