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Expectations going down? Photo by La Mariposa

O hai — have you ever tried to plan a wedding before? This shit's expensive! I had no idea the costs of things until I started finding out empty buildings with nothing included are $3500 for four hours and a sit-down meal is $75 per person. Suddenly, being a couple of social butterflies seems like a huge financial burden.

We started planning the wedding and our less than $5K affair was suddenly a $10K bash and rising — with no idea how we'd pay for it. So we scaled back down. We revisited what we were doing. We switched our venue to a more affordable one that allowed us to provide our own food and drink. We cut our costs back down to a reasonable, and affordable, number.

I love Empire cross-overs! Offbeat Home has a great guest post, written by Erica (an Offbeat Bride reader) about the genius way that she and her partner are saving money up for their wedding.

Yes, almost everything having to do with gay marriage can run the gamut of SUPER complicated to not even legal. It's hard to get a break. But find out how sometimes being a queer bride can help you a super deal!

We know that you can NEVER have a shortage of budget-stretching ideas. I previously gave you these recession-friendly wedding budget ideas, but let's get food-specific in this installment, shall we? Here are 7 ways you can stretch your catering budget.

No bullshit: planning a wedding is MURDER on your wallet. It's truly ridiculous. I also want to help you! So here are a few ideas on how you can stretch your wedding budget as far as it'll go.

Wanna save up a ton of money, super fast? Offbeat reader Dora and her fiance have unlocked the secret. Would you believe it involves Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, and neighbors wearing camouflage? It does, and it works!

Tribe member acbombshell wrote a pretty interesting piece on ye old tradition of the wedding dowry and how it's morphed into the tradition of the bride's parents paying for the wedding and the feelings and ramifications behind that tradition

Tribe member jamieg wrote a post-wedding planning update about not only what her wedding actually cost, but what it was actually worth. I thought it enlightening. -Megs