Wedding Budget Advice and Free Calculator – Guest Post

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We love wedding budget advice and free… well anything, but especially tools to help out couples throughout the wedding planning process.

Once you start your wedding planning you quickly discover the endless details, time, and money that it takes to pull a wedding off. There are reasons many new brides spend a year or more planning their Big Day, it’s not usually because they want to wait an entire year to marry. Sure it’s nice to have the time to leisurely plan for your dream wedding, but for a lot of couples they require the year of planning for financial reasons.

We make it our business to share wedding planning tips, tricks, and trends with you so today we are sharing a great tool that our friend: Jenny Creno at the insider will explain for you. This wedding budget advice article and free calculator are great tools for any bride to be whether you are just starting the process or have already selected a few vendors there is great advice in here for everyone! Thanks for putting this together Jenny!

THE INSIDER – September 30th, 2013
By Jenny Creno

Soon after couples announce their engagement, planning the wedding becomes one of the first financial obstacles that the couple has to overcome together. The best thing to do is to learn about typical trends when it comes to planning a wedding and what mistakes lead to the most financial failures amongst couples during this process. Should you put everything on credit cards? Or create a separate checking account specifically for wedding expenses to avoid overspending? The infographic below highlights information from couples who have gone through this process, wedding planners, and event coordinators to give newly engaged couples a few tips on how to save on their wedding, avoid financial conflicts, and lastly and most importantly the benefits of stress free well planned wedding. Want even more advice? Check out more tips on our community page, and our wedding budget calculator.Those redundant words, your wedding day is just one day, may very well be the truth. But society has given us Bridezillas, Say Yes to the Dress!, and all the jazz to keep us wanting that one big day, to be one very big day. Don’t get caught up in the fuss, and listen to the advice from people who have been through this process before.

Events by L Monday Mood Board – Aqua Summer Wedding

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This weeks Monday Mood Board features inspiration for an Aqua Summer Wedding we are planning. It is going to be amazing! Summer is the perfect time for anything aqua! It is so vibrant and when you surround it with pink and gold accents you get a winning combination. We think it is important to have the colors tie into every element of the wedding from the flowers to the food. Just gorgeous! We are in love with these colors and can’t wait to see the vision come to life!!

Aqua Summer Inspiration

Photo Credit

We can’t wait to put together next weeks board for you to enjoy! Also, coming up this week we are going to be posting financial tips and advice from other experts to consider when planning your wedding. So stay tuned for that!

“It’s going to be a great year!”- Said the Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Award Winners- Events By L

1 / 10 / 14

A HUGE thank you to our wonderful clients for their amazing reviews! We are honored to be recognized in the top 5% of Wedding Pros in the WeddingWire Network. We are so grateful!

It is such an honor to be able to do what you love and love what you do while meeting and collaborating with such skilled and amazing people. We are so lucky to be involved in a community with such great individuals who treat each client with the utmost respect and integrity.

We are looking forward to another terrific year and gaining more experience, wisdom, and best of all Events by L family! When we are a part of your event, we are not just the “planners” we become your family! Thanks for a great year and we can’t wait to see what this one holds!

#CouplesChoice #WeLoveOurCouples #ForYourWedding

Seen At 11: Get Your Fill Of The New Year’s Hottest Diet Trends

1 / 9 / 14

Whether you are trying to maintain a New Years resolution or gearing up for you soon to be wedding, here are some of the hottest Diet Trends via CBS New York!

If you like mushrooms and sex you will love this post! 🙂

No Stress Favors That Will Impress!

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Selecting wedding favors to thank your guest for celebrating in the joining of you and your significant other should be nothing to sweat! Don’t waste hard earned money on favors that will be left behind, give your guests something they will actually want to take home with them!

While you may think your guests are going to be excited to take home a coaster of the two of you posing in a lovey-dovey position, you’re wrong! Don’t chose something so personalized that only you would appreciate it. Think of your guests. You spend all of these hours and dollars planning this joyous occasion; don’t let your favors come across as an after thought.

Here are some of our favorite picks for favors that your guests will be lucky to receive!

Picture compliments of Southern Living

These neatly wrapped organic soaps are great for any event! Look at how often people steal the fancy hotel soaps out of the bathroom. You know you do! Clearly it is a luxury item.

You can’t go wrong with food especially a sweet treat. Give your attendants something to look forward to rather than a key chain with YOUR monogram on it.

Here’s another great idea. Send them off with a great pair of tools that are actually functional. You can get as personal as you want on the holders.

Go green! Share some seeds and do Mother Nature a solid!

Yet another great option. Loving this signage!

There is certainly a plethora of choices for your favors and with our experience we have seen them all! By far it seems that most favorited favors are the edible ones. The rest get forgotten or thrown away.

If you are on a tight budget spare your wallet and skip the Mr. and Mrs. Tackywedding favor and instead give an edible treat for guests to take away or just skip the favors all together. No favor is better than a cheap favor that no one will appreciate.

Photo Credit: All images were found Via Pinterest and we are unable to cite specific sources for some, this is in no way an attempt to steal any images but simply use as inspiration as they are all gorgeous. If you have information on who to credit for the beautiful work please contact us so we may do so asap!