This last year has been a year of whittling down wedding budgets. The Union Tribune recently interviewed me and featured one of my brides to discuss ways to save cash, even after the wedding has been almost entirely planned. Read what Heather did to reduce her budget from $60k to $35k and my tips for downscaling after many of the contracts have been signed.


With a hectic job, Heather Hendren considered wedding coordinator Cynthia Zatkin an essential expense. (Nelvin C. Capeda/Union Tribune)

THE RITE PRICE

A couple finds a more frugal way to tie the knot

By Caroline Dipping 

 

When Michael Kiesling proposed to Heather Hendren at the Hotel del Coronado last fall, they agreed they would like to get married there, too. Then they found out using the historic venue would set them back a minimum of $20,000. That was their first wake-up call.
"I was never going to touch that. It was obscene," said Hendren, 32, a finance manager for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Developmental in La Jolla. "With the economy the way it is, you can't afford to take on that kind of debt. You just can't." 

 

An average wedding in America cost nearly $30,000 last year, according to a survey conducted by The Knot Wedding Network...

 

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San Diego Union-Tribune: The Rite Price