25 chic-as-hell and inexpensive wedding dresses under $500
While you can totally spend thousands of buckeroos on a fabulous and chic wedding dress, you don’t HAVE to. In fact, you can find a cheap and cheerful inexpensive wedding dress at one of our favorite stores, ASOS. They’re rocking our world with their wedding dresses, bridesmaid gowns, mothers-of-the-couple dress, and tons of outfits for wedding guests (and stuff I just want to buy for mahself!). We’ve rounded up a few of our favorite inexpensive wedding dresses from ASOS to get your dress shopping started — and they’re all $500 and under.
Let’s go shopping for chic and lovely yet totally inexpensive wedding dresses…
Planning tools 101: wedding budget calculator
We launched a comprehensive and totally customizable document of wedding planning spreadsheets if you’re the type to get down with spreadsheets like I am. First we featured a big ol’ wedding timeline, then we featured the guest list planner, and now we’re showing you the wedding budget calculator for all your costs and figures and savings.
10 realistic wedding budget tips to stop budget ballooning
You’ve probably realized it already: weddings are expensive. No matter what your budget is, chances are it’s slowly creeped upwards from your original estimate — maybe by a lot. As a bride in the middle of planning, here are some realistic wedding budget tips that have drastically helped to keep the budget from ballooning out of control.
17 lovely and ultra affordable wedding rings (ALL under $500!)
When it comes to engagement rings and wedding rings in general, you don’t have to spend a bunch of paychecks on something wildly expensive. The diamond industry keeps asking why millennials aren’t buying as many diamonds and it’s clear: diamonds aren’t the only way to go anymore. I’ve found a whole bunch of super affordable wedding rings with colored semi-precious stones, opals, sapphires, Tahitian pearls, and yep, even a few gorgeous diamonds (and black diamonds!). Let’s go shopping for some purty sparklies that are all under (some WELL under) a $500 price tag…
Does size matter? Small wedding budget tips for your micro-wedding
We’ve got a whole big archive of money-saving advice for wedding budgets. Cutting costs, steering clear of the WIC bloat… it’s all in there for weddings of all sizes. The biggest wedding budget advice we’ve heard? Cutting that guest list. It’s not always feasible, but when it is, you’ll see that budget plummet. Here are our small wedding budget tips specifically for your tiny wedding.
How we’re making peace with our no bells and whistles wedding in the WIC pressure cooker
Planning a budget-friendly, streamlined wedding that doesn’t feature all the “bells and whistles” of traditional weddings is not without its judgments and that’s where my recent stress has been coming in. Wedding planning forums can make you question if your wedding is going to be remembered as the “worst wedding ever,” your ideas suck, and it’s all going to be tacky, especially if you are cutting some corners, budget-wise. Here’s how we’re handling the pressure.