Money

Let's face it. If you want a big fat wedding of any kind, you are going to have to had rich parents or save up a lot of money over a couple of years.

What surprises me about a lot of wedding blogs/websites out there is none of them really go into in depth analysis of how much a beautiful wedding listed on the blog cost. Costings are things which engaged couples have to work out as they go along.

I looked at a lot of blogs before I actually sat down to put together a budget for my wedding. When I started researching prices for all the cool things featured on the wedding blogs it made me realise that I was going to have to be a bit more realistic about what I could have at the wedding.

Also, for things like flowers, wedding dresses etc I couldn't really find accurate quotes or information about how much people typically spent (which makes it quite hard to properly budget at the outset).

One thing I realised early on is wedding dresses are expensive and you pay for good quality material/dress structure. I have looked at dresses ranging from £500 (in the sample sales) up to £4k. My initial budget was £1600 but I have fallen in love with a dress which is £2800!! Nothing else will do really so I have decided to buy that dress. Ooops. Guess we will have to economise in other ways.

Photographers, flowers, food etc...I am still on the hunt!