Expensive Wedding Traditions to Skip

7 Costly Wedding Traditions to Ditch

May 20, 2013

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When wedding bells ring, chances are your pocketbook is trying to block out the sound. After all, the costs of a wedding can add up if you stubbornly stick to expensive traditions. Since we're living in the 21st century, it's time to cast aside the uneconomical wedding customs and only keep the ones that work with our budget. Read on to find out what age-old practices you should drop when you're planning for your big day.

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by Emily Co 5

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5 Comments

Grace Hitchcock 48 weeks 3 days

I couldn't agree more with the bridesmaid dresses! I've already decided that when I get married I'm letting my bridesmaids choose their own dresses so they can find something that they're both physically and financially comfortable with!

2 years 6 days

"Talk to your wedding planner" Wait, I thought you said not to use a wedding planner. Anyway, this is a pretty lame set of advice here. My cousin had the non-identical bridesmaids dresses. It looked horrid. They all had the same fabric in a different style that suited them. That fact alone took all the attention right off the bride and onto the mismatching bridesmaids! As for the other stuff...really? What sort of high-maintenance woman is this geared toward? Maybe I don't live in the right social circle, but this "article" wouldn't apply to any women I have ever known.

2 years 6 days

Thank goodness we kept the pre-wedding romp between the groomsmen and the bridge to be !

2 years 3 weeks

It's always nice to go to your artical "Brides footing the bill" just so you can watch a video on exercising! Who screwed up?

myhousemd 2 years 4 weeks

My friend used his fiancee's mother's diamond in a new, custom setting. It's so beautiful! (And he's a former art student, paying back a ton of student loans while going from min wage job to min wage job.) Proof that it can be done on a budget! (And using mom's stone is so romantic!)