Budget
How to Hold a Number When Everyone Is Suggesting You Raise It
A budget is not a total you hope to hit. It is a set of decisions you have already made about what happens when something costs…
Sonakshi Dubey
Contributing writer, Get Myself Married
Sonakshi writes about venues and reads their contracts closely.
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12 articles
Budget
Who Pays for What, and How to Have That Conversation Once
Contribution and control travel together unless you separate them deliberately. That separation is a conversation, and it works far…
Budget
Cashflow Beats the Total: Why Affordable Weddings Still Feel Unaffordable
Most couples can fund their wedding. Fewer can fund it in the order the payments actually fall due, and that is a different problem…
Budget
Doing It Yourself: What It Saves and What It Actually Costs
Homemade elements can be the best thing about a wedding or the reason nobody slept for a fortnight. The difference is which tasks…
Budget
Budgeting a Wedding That Runs Across Several Days
A multi-day wedding is not one big event. It is several events with separate guest lists, separate hosts and separate cost…
Venues
How the Floor Plan Decides Whether a Room Feels Full or Empty
The same guest count can feel like a party or a scattering depending entirely on how the space is divided. This is a decision, not…
Venues
Exclusive Use, Shared Buildings and What You Are Actually Buying
The phrase means different things at different venues, and the difference determines whether the day feels like yours or like a…
Venues
In-House Catering, Approved Lists and the Cost of Bringing Your Own
Who feeds your guests is usually decided by the building, not by you. Understanding why changes how you choose the building.
Venues
Outdoor Venues: Ground, Power, Plumbing and What Photographs Hide
An open field is not a venue. It is a site that needs infrastructure, and the infrastructure is most of the work and most of the…
Venues
Curfews, Noise Limiters and the Hour Your Wedding Really Ends
The finish time in your head, the finish time in the contract and the moment the music actually stops are frequently three…
Venues
What a Marquee Actually Requires Before Anyone Sees the Inside of It
The structure is the visible part and often the smaller part. Flooring, lining, power, heating and ground conditions are the rest…
Venues
Two Locations, One Day: Closing the Gap Between Ceremony and Reception
The journey between a ceremony venue and a reception is where weddings lose an hour, lose guests and lose momentum. It is entirely…