Engaged, now what?

Getting engaged is a very exciting occurrence in anybodies life, especially if you sit on the female side of things. (Just to clarify,I am not engaged) After you have called every relative alive, including aunt Maria in Europe, and have busted out the ring to show your friends on numerous occasions, the bottom line is you have a wedding to plan now.

A wedding these days can get into ridiculous numbers. The average cost of a wedding in Canada is about $25,000, which is no cup of tea unless you got that kind of money laying around.

Lets face it, most of the people getting married, have hardly had enough time to accumulate that kind of dough and pay off all their debt from their education, car, mortgage and credit cards, let alone have enough to put on a wedding.

The key to being your own responsible wedding planner, is to be realistic. Many people (brides to be) don't think realistically when it comes to their wedding, it is no doubt a very special day, but when that day is over, there are going to be bills to pay from food to the florist.

Unless your loaded with cash, don't think that your going to put on some Hollywood production, with horses, 3 DJ's , cigar rollers and a magic show, it's not a circus, in the end its the official bond between two people who love each other.