Why you should Pay for your own Wedding
Paying for a wedding can be a very stressful thing to do, but it can also be an incredibly rewarding one. Your wedding day will be one of the most special days of your entire life and naturally you want everything to be perfect. There are many reasons why you may want to pay for your own wedding.
With tradition dictating that the couple's parents pay for the majority of the wedding, what the bride and groom want can very often be overlooked. The people holding the purse strings can sometimes forget that it is not their wedding and insist upon things that the bride and groom might not like. Paying for your own wedding will ensure that you get everything that you want without having to compromise or fight for it. You will have final say over everything as you should because it is your wedding day.
If your parents can't afford to pay for your wedding then paying for it yourself is the right thing to do. Weddings can be very expensive, even modest ones and if your parents are on a tight budget, then it is unfair to ask them to spend a fortune that they don't have on your wedding. Many people choose to pay for the majority of the wedding themselves and have their parents contribute what they can comfortably afford.
Paying for your own wedding will give you an enormous sense of independence, being able to say that you have earned everything that was at your wedding will give you a feeling of extreme pride.
Around50,000British people choose to get married abroad every year, and whilst getting married in a different country can be romantic, it can also be very costly. Expecting your parents to pay for your wedding and for their flights and accommodation is not particularly fair. Paying for your own wedding is the polite thing to do when people are expected to travel great distances to get to it.
If your wedding is a last minute affair, then people will not have a lot of spare cash, so unless your parents have a wedding fund for you, then they will not be able to cope with the sudden expense. Paying for your own wedding will help spare your parents the stress of having to get a lot of money together in a short time. It will also mean that you get to have your wedding when you want it, not when your parents can afford it.
Paying for your own wedding will not only ease the financial burden on your parents, it will also help make sure that you get exactly what you want, when you want it.
