One of the struggles you will face when planning you wedding will be between time and money. Weddings are financially expensive and so you’ll feel pressure to cut costs whenever you can. Weddings also take up a considerable amount of time, both in planning and preparations, and so you will need to be careful where you cut costs, where you trade in some of your time in return for savings down the road.
An example of this is in making your own invitations. If you get them entirely printed, they will be more expensive than if you get some of it printed and put it together yourself. The same goes for a lot of the things at the wedding. You have to balance the savings with the effort it takes to achieve them.
Where does the savings make sense? My bar is always my own earnings after taxes. For example, if I earn $10 an hour and I can only save $5 an hour to get something done, then I will pay for it. If I do something myself and I can save $20, then I’ll do it.
That’s a very simplistic view so here’s another wrinkle. Consider the frustration savings. Cutting paper and gluing them together to make invitations is a pretty low stress activity, transporting a cake is more stressful right? Let’s say you told the baker that you’d do the transport to cut a few dollars off the price. You might save more than your salary (plus gas), but you have the stress of transporting the cake in your car. What if something gets messed up? That unknown is stress and is it worth it to save a few dollars? Probably not (depends on how far away it is, how many free hands you have, etc), but that’s ultimately up to you.
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