Blogging about Budget???

CaptiolBride

I've noticed that many people who blog or post about their budget and budget breakdowns are usually on a lower budget. Is it not proper etiquette for people with higher budgets to post/blog about how much things cost them?

laurenclaire1386

I think it's fine to do. I think the people who do budget blogs do it to share the ways they've saved money, and still made things really nice. But no, there's nothing wrong about advertising how much you paid for your wedding on the internet, if that's your thing.

kate51485

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[QUOTE]I've noticed that many people who blog or post about their budget and budget breakdowns are usually on a lower budget. Is it not proper etiquette for people with higher budgets to post/blog about how much things cost them?
Posted by CaptiolBride[/QUOTE]

Well when you're on a smaller budget it takes some initiative and thought to figure out how best to plan your event.  When money is no object, who really cares?

laurenclaire1386

Also, please explain to me why you used three question marks. I alwasys wonder what motivates people to use excessive punctuation.

ricksang

If you have a large budget or no budget, why blog about it? I think the purpose of thrifty budget blogs is to help other low budget brides. Why not just make a blog about wedding purchases?

MyNameIsNot

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[QUOTE]Also, please explain to me why you used three question marks. I alwasys wonder what motivates people to use excessive punctuation.
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

<div>Because it's a really hard question.  Duh!</div>

agk0125

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[QUOTE]In Response to Blogging about Budget??? : Well when you're on a smaller budget it takes some initiative and thought to figure out how best to plan your event.  When money is no object, who really cares?
Posted by kate51485[/QUOTE]

This. People who have larger budgets just book the vendors they want and that's that. A smaller budget means a lot more creative problem solving.

kate51485

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[QUOTE]If you have a large budget or no budget, why blog about it? I think the purpose of thrifty budget blogs is to help other low budget brides. Why not just make a blog about wedding purchases?
Posted by ricksang[/QUOTE]

Absolutely.  Cost does not need to be disclosed if it's just another decision.  To have incessant updates about how many ridiculous dollars you spent this time is just weird and AWish.

MyNameIsNot

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[QUOTE]In Response to Blogging about Budget??? : Well when you're on a smaller budget it takes some initiative and thought to figure out how best to plan your event.  When money is no object, who really cares?
Posted by kate51485[/QUOTE]

<div>Just because you have a larger budget does not mean that money is no object.  </div>

kate51485

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Blogging about Budget??? : Just because you have a larger budget does not mean that money is no object.  
Posted by MyNameIsNot[/QUOTE]

Obviously.  But if limiting cost is not the determining factor for many of your decisions, like Ricks said, just make a blog and why focus on prices specifically.

ricksang

I had a large budget, but it would not have been helpful  to make a blog about it. I mean, if you want to AW your purchases just call it, "My Wedding", NBD. It' s okay to AW in a blog, but large budget blogs aren't as helpful as budget blogs for a lot of knotties, no?

CaptiolBride

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[QUOTE]Also, please explain to me why you used three question marks. I alwasys wonder what motivates people to use excessive punctuation.
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

LOL Because I'm high drama and I love punctuation... It's my weakness. I also use "LOL" wayyyy too much.  Though I  do find myself deleteing ??? and !!!!! to make myself only use one.

CaptiolBride

Thanks for all the contributions... I was just wondering about it because it was something I noticed while looking at bios and blogs. Everything you gals are saying does make sense though.

ricksang

YW

zippityb

My problem with the budget blogs is that they don't incorporate the cost of a lot of things because other people are paying for them or they have a friend who is doing the thing for free. Not everyone has access to favors like that. It's like the people who write about how they got out of debt by cutting down on stuff, and oh, by the way, they also got an inheritance that helped.

wcvsb3b5

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[QUOTE]My problem with the budget blogs is that they don't incorporate the cost of a lot of things because other people are paying for them or they have a friend who is doing the thing for free. Not everyone has access to favors like that. It's like the people who write about how they got out of debt by cutting down on stuff, and oh, by the way, they also got an inheritance that helped.
Posted by zippityb[/QUOTE]

Definitely! It's tough to make out a budget and the budget blogs help but when pieces are missing from it sometimes we (those who are using it as a helpful base) forget about it until it comes up.

squirrly

I think, particularly on here, a lot of the budget bride blogs are pretty AWish too.  "Look at me!  Look at how little I spent!"  I think any mention of money, unsolicited, is AWish.  I also think a lot of the "budget" brides are VERY judgement of anyone spending more than what they deem reasonable.  Budget is a term that's really in the eye of the beholder when it comes to weddings.  Our budget isn't big enough to have absolutely everything we want.  But it's not so small that we haven't been able to find creative ways to have a wedding we're really happy with.  Yet, I've found the budget board to be really rude and snotty about it at times. 

/rant on that point.

Overall, if you wanna blog about your budget, that's your call.  But, I think it's much more reasonable and useful to others to blog about your planning.  Why you chose something, not just the cost of what you chose. 

riverjib

I'm sorry to ask this, but I'm new here. What does AW mean? I googled it and the first hit was American Whitewater, which is funny because that's the first thing that came to mind when I saw AW. Is there a list on here of common abbreviations so I don't have to look so inept? Anything followed by "IL" is obvious, but some of the others are not so clear :-)

My personal opinion is that if money wasn't an issue, I probably wouldn't consult a planning blog to get an idea about expenses. I'd just plan the wedding that I wanted. But any advice you have may be useful to others. For example, my budget is extremely limited, but I want the perfect photographer. I don't really care about flowers, so I'm hoping to keep that budget to a minimum by having other decorations and centerpieces. But anyone who is limited still has priorities, and we can all learn from those who had good experiences with one specific professional or company.

squirrly

AW = Attention Wh0re

brookelynpaisley

I did a post on planning on a budget only because there were a lot of things we did that a lot of brides CAN do, even if they're not master crafters or have friends supplying everything from cake to photography. But I agree that if your budget is probably within $5K of the average in the area, it's probably not that difficult to plan without getting highly creative. We didn't have a super low budget (about $9K) but we still did things like getting married on a Friday, using craigslist and Etsy, and DIYing what I could.