In short:
It’s the ultimate all-in-one resource, filled with expert advice, guidance, and done-for-you templates that’ll leave you wondering how in the world planning your budget ended up being so dang effortless.
WONDERING WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?Here’s what you’ll find inside the Wedding Budget Guide:
Conversational prompts to talk about joint investments
Space to keep track of contributions from loved ones
Fill-in-the-blank investment strategy
Values-based framework to help identify your unique priorities, must-haves, and nice-to-haves
Full digital budgeting template—including spaces to input every vendor, service, item, and activity you may need to pay for, as well as the name of the person paying, estimated and actual costs, amounts paid, payment dates, remaining amounts, and final payment due dates
6 sample modern-day wedding budgets for a destination wedding weekend, local wedding weekend, single-day venue wedding, intimate wedding, styled elopement, and minimalist elopement (including real numbers and vendors we recommend hiring for each)
After you get your hands on this, you’ll be able to. . .
Co-create the money mindset you and your partner want to establish in your marriage
Get clear on your values so you can invest your resources with confidence
Keep track of every dollar, service, or item contributed by loved ones so you know what’s already taken care of
Make clear, confident, and aligned investment decisions together, knowing exactly where your priorities lie
Harness professional advice and services to elevate your event on your budget
Feel relief knowing exactly where every dollar is going, peace of mind knowing when payments are due, and reassurance that you haven’t forgotten anything essential
Craft a comprehensive budget together with inspiration from real-life events just like yours
What’s it worth to you?
(spoiler alert: the answer is WAY more than you’ll be paying)
You’d invest upwards of $500 to get one-on-one time with an experienced wedding planner—and there’s no guarantee you’d walk away with as comprehensive of a financial plan as we provide.
Our goal?
To meet you where you’re at, as a DIY couple, by offering our synthesized strategy in one booklet.
If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and have the important conversations with your partner, then the value you’ll receive from this professional planning team’s experience and insights—and the money you’ll save on investments that don’t actually matter to you—is tremendous.
But we won’t charge you anywhere near $500+ for this guide. . .
It’ll only cost you a week’s worth of overpriced morning coffees on your way to work.
You’ll not only save hundreds to thousands of dollars on investments that aren’t in alignment with your dream wedding. . . but also save your sanity throughout the planning process.
Here’s what else you might need to know:
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You sure don't! As professional planners, we built this guide so that couples could leverage our experience and advice to get clarity on their budget without having to hire a planner or coordinator.
Keep in mind: this Wedding Budget Guide is not a standalone, one-guide-fixes-all wedding planning solution.
We hope that you take the budget clarity you get from this guide and leverage it into a series of planning decisions whose scope lives outside of this guide.
If you are looking for additional support, we encourage you to check out the many other DIY wedding planning solutions we carry in our Tapestry Touch library!
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Early and often! It's never too early to get on the same page about the resources you have to pull off your wedding vision.
If you are DIY’ing your wedding in any way, including taking the lead in part or all of the planning, it is especially important to set your budget early and manage it often so that your finances stay just as healthy as your relationship while you move from engagement to marriage. We believe in supporting healthy relationships as part of the wedding planning process.
This Wedding Budget Guide was built to support you and your partner in better understanding and navigating the wedding planning process by learning new communication and collaboration skills to co-manage your finances.
We want you to emerge with an aligned set of expectations that you can work toward together.
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This guide is yours to keep—forever!
Upon purchase, you will be directed to download your Wedding Budget Guide directly to your computer. You can print out a copy to work on with your partner or save a digital copy to collaborate on together.
You’ll also find two versions of the ready-to-use budgeting template: one that can be filled out in Notion, and one that you can fill out directly in the PDF.
Use these tools as ongoing references for your wedding budget conversations and investment planning.
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The Wedding Budget Guide has been developed over a decade of wedding planning experience working with 400+ couples and diverse budgets—and our approach has worked for events of $20,000 to $200,000 budgets. Compared to most couples, who spend 50% above their wedding budget, our couples only spend between 0-30% above their budget. We are confident that it will work for you, too!
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We offer a 30-day money back guarantee to make this as risk-free as possible for you. If you find that this guide has not helped you get clarity on your wedding budget and you are not 100% satisfied, just reach out within 30 days of purchase and we’ll send a refund your way.
