Whether your wedding budget is $100k, $10k, or $1k, dividing your funds appropriately helps ensure you get the most out of it. Breaking your budget up can be one of the most challenging aspects of wedding planning, but it?s also one of the most important parts. Determining the best venue, decor, meal options, photographer, and more can only happen if there?s room in your budget?and if you?ve reserved the money for it.
Here are five tips on how to divide your wedding budget to make sure your wedding day is everything you and your fiancé have been dreaming of.
1. Determine Your Priorities and Planning Style
Regardless of the size of your budget, determining what your priorities are for your wedding is the first step to properly allocating funds. Since you and your partner may have different preferences, it can help to divide responsibilities. While some couples want to agree on everything and anything that goes into the wedding day, and thereby agree on priorities together, other couples find it beneficial to divide the total wedding budget in terms of ?for you? and ?for them? amounts?so each person has the freedom to invest in what?s most important to them. This way, you can divide responsibilities and budget to best suit your priorities and planning styles. Talk with your fiancé to get an idea of what’s important to them in a wedding celebration, and how you can develop a strategy for yourselves. 2. Nail Down Your Guest List

The size of your guest list is a good d...