Expensive Wedding Traditions to Skip

7 Costly Wedding Traditions to Ditch

May 20, 2013

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by Emily Co 5

Me, Myself, and I

Wave goodbye to: Me, myself, and I.

Say hello to: We, us, and ours!

Yes, it's your big day, and it should be all about you, but you don't have to go at it alone. You can opt to work with other brides and share services with them to cut the costs. Talk to your wedding planner to see if she has any clients who are getting married right after or before your wedding and who will be willing to share wedding items such as decorations or chairs.

Dana LaRue, the founder of The Broke-Ass Bride blog, has a bridal sharing social media service called Bride$hare, which is what she calls "the carpool of wedding planning." Find your wedding buddy who has a similar theme, venue, or vision through this site, and then start sharing away with her!

Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox

2 / 10

by Emily Co 5

Me, Myself, and I

Wave goodbye to: Me, myself, and I.

Say hello to: We, us, and ours!

Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox

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5 Comments

Grace Hitchcock 48 weeks 16 h

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 3 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 3 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 3 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!)