What's the best way to make $10,000 in 8 months for my wedding? Please help!?

Answer 1

selling your body????

Answer 2

Here's a better idea. Plan a less expensive wedding. I got married for under $1,000 The important thing is the vows and the ceremony. The party after is fun. Nobody will care how much you spent, infact I have been to really ritzy expensive weddings and I have been to modest weddings, and sometimes you can't tell the diference. At my wedding I was concerned that the ribbons in my boquet matched the ribbons on the back drops and centerpieces, I mean matched exactly. It did not work out that way, but the shades were close enough that no one noticed. Just relax and have fun. You can do a firly inexpensive reception and it will mean the same thing at the end.

Now that being said- I did not have to pay the wedding officiater, I help my reception in the cultural hall at my church and there was no cost for that. Also staying with family tradition. my grandfather made my cake- so those are some expenses that I was able to cut. I think the biggest expense that should be inccurred for a wedding- is the pictures, hire a good photographer.

Don't go into debt for a wedding- you will regret it. Never start a marriage with debt (exception modest car or a house) if you can avoid it.

Answer 3

Do not take out a loan! It is not a good idea! If you think that you have to have a 10k wedding, then adjust your spending now to accomoadte that desire. It will take about $1250 per month put away in savings to reach that 10K goal. You can get the money by picking up a second job, have some garage sales, or asking for help from the parents of you and your hubby to be.

I would say it would be MUCH easier though to set a more realistic budget and go from there. You can easily have a 4k wedding that looks like a 10k wedding, if you look in the right places.

If you stress now about trying to come up with a solution, I would say push the wedding back a few months. If you push it to 13 months from now you only have to save about $770 per month, which is MORE realistic that 1250, unless you have a great job.

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding, but remember, its not how much you spend on the wedding, but how you spend the time celebrating it with your family and friends.

Awesome weddings have been pulled off for 1/2 of what you are asking. Cut corners if need be.

Answer 4

Your best bet would be to fit the wedding to the budget not the budget to the wedding.

Find out what you can comfortably afford from savings right now... then figure out what you can comfortably set aside each month without killing your household expenses. Then multiply the amount you can save per month by the number of months you can save (7 if its a wedding 8 months away) then add in your savings. (If you get money back on taxes thats a windfall you could add to your savings.) That is the budget you need to work from. There are lots of ways to save money you just have to be open to ideas outside what you may have already thought up.

If you insist on spending more than that budget you will need to move your date back a bit and save for longer.

Answer 5

I know this won't be the answer you want to hear, but my advice is not to spend that much on a wedding, particularly when you cannot afford it. That money would do you so much more good as a downpayment on a house or to pay off other debt. That way, iIt would go a long way in helping to establish a good, happy marriage which is what really counts...not the ceremony and reception which are over in a few hours.

Answer 6

Have a wedding that you can afford.

Cut your guest list in half. Invite the people that you truly care about. Not co-workers and neighbors, and old school mates that you havent hear from in months or years.

Get a second job. NOW!

You will have to consider other options that are less expensive.

I would not recommend for you to max your c/c or to take loans. for just one day and getting in a bad financial situation to start a marriage.

Be smart. Good luck

Answer 7

like others have said, the little things add up:

pick up your pizza instead of paying for delivery/tip (or get one of those ones that'd ready to go in the oven from your grocerry store's deli dept)

skip the morning latte (a regulat coffee is half the price, or make it at home)

drink water at lunch, have a can of soda later for 25¢ (bring it from home)

turn off lights

drive a little less

park a few blocks away and save on parking fees

these things won't add up to $10,000, but they might add up to $200 or so a month, so that's $1600 less you have to earn.

Answer 8

If you cannot afford the wedding then you should not have that wedding. Whos idea was it to have a 10,000.00 wedding? Do most of the work yourself and you will save a bundle.

What a waste...you will never see that money again... I hate to say it but if you are not one of the rich and famous then the wedding budget should be cut.

OR

If either of the families is insisting on certain things make THEM pay for it. Its One day.... a few hours and you will not remember most of it anyway!

Answer 9

have any stuff to sell? have a yard sale, yeah it will only produce a little but it is a start.

start a fund and add money into it ING is the best account in my opinion.

anytime you get change back put it in a jar and use that towards the wedding

Answer 10

here's what I am doing.
- cut off any excess fringes- cable, we got rid of our house line an only use cell phones, NO expesive food or luxerys.
- Do BUY anything you don't need, clothing..... fun stuff
- Don't go out, join netflicks, cook and eat in.
- Brown bag your lunch
-Sell anything you don't want or don't need on ebay for extra cash. Sell all your jewerly from ex boyfriends...
- Set a side payment plans that you can reach for paying vendors.
- Get a separte saving account for the wedding money.
- Put AS much of your paycheck in the account as possible.

In your case you need to put away $313 a week.

Answer 11

Don't have a $10,000 wedding and then you won't have to stress about how to get it.