$10K Wedding

The average American wedding costs over thirty thousand dollars. It does not have to. The $10K Wedding is a complete, honest, step-by-step plan for building the wedding you actually want - for ten thousand dollars, or whatever number you really have - without a debt hangover that follows you into the first years of marriage. Starting with the four-part budget that most couples forget, it walks through the decisions that actually move the total: guest-list math, venue vetting without a wedding-hall price tag, catering without a full-service caterer, photography at a third of the going rate, attire without the alterations trap, flowers and DIY decor, music, stationery, the wedding party, vows and officiant, the day-of timeline, vendor contracts, honeymoon planning, and the family-money conversation nobody wants to have. Filled with worked examples, scripts for the hard conversations, and a printable master checklist, it is the field manual for couples who want a beautiful wedding they can afford - and a marriage that starts on solid financial ground.