I generally love the cheapskate column in the Wall Street Journal, by Neal Templin. But I get irritated when I hear lectures about how no one should spend a lot of money on a wedding, which is what Templin essentially said today.
For years, I’ve read with dismay about the tens of even hundreds of thousands of dollars [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘wedding’
March 12, 2009
You had a wedding for $4,800. Here’s your gold star.
June 16, 2008
Our summer budget (Or: wedding season begins)
Jon and I are the last people to complain about big weddings. Ours had about 150 guests, and it was amazing. Sure, we had to mortgage our first born child in order to pay for it (or rather, our parents had to mortgage their first born grandchild). But it was worth every penny.
However, we are [...]
March 29, 2008
Wedding Money-Saving Tip!
One of the best things we did after the wedding was skip the whole $600-wedding-album thing. First of all, we didn’t love those professional albums. Second, the last thing we wanted to do post-wedding was spend hundreds of dollars on anything. Luckily, we discovered Blurb. Download Blurb’s software, and it’s incredibly easy to design and [...]
