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Plan Your Wedding Without Breaking the Bank With The Knot’s Vendor Marketplace
I grew up watching Say Yes to the Dress and 4 Weddings every weekend with my sister. Needless to say, I’ve been thinking about my wedding for a long time. Long before I met my now fiancé, I would cut pictures out of magazines and dream about the day it would finally happen. Years later, now that I’m actually engaged, that dream has become more of a nightmare facing the expensive reality that is planning a wedding.
Most venues, caterers, and florists require you to fill out an inquiry form before you can see any pricing. Once you’ve already gotten attached and started dreaming about your wedding here, and these florals there, you’ll receive the heart-stopping quote. Realizing it’s out of your budget, you’ll most likely get email reminders or voicemails until the end of time, reminding you of what could’ve been. I’m speaking from personal experience here.
But it doesn’t have to be that complicated or heart-breaking. The Knot Vendor Marketplace makes it easy to find wedding vendors that are within your budget.👇
25 Comprehensive Categories
The Knot Vendor Marketplace offers 25 categories of vendors. It’s truly a one-stop shop for everything wedding related! From dress shops to venues and photographers, you can find everything you need in one place. The best part? Within each category, you can filter by the starting price. Of course you’ll need the official quote to make sure you’re in the clear, but it’s a great way to know what you’re getting yourself into before you fall in love with a certain florist or photographer. You can also read reviews from real couples that worked with specific vendors before you book anything to make sure you’ll be happy with the services.
Fine-Tune Your Budget
My fiancé and I are paying for our own wedding, but we had no idea how much to budget for each category. A simple Google search brings up a million different numbers, since price varies so much across states and categories. Being able to filter and get an estimate of prices across different vendors in our area has helped us figure out what to splurge on (a Pnina Tornai dress, duh!) vs what we can save on. Since we’ve been able to fine-tune our wedding budget, we know exactly how much more we need to save and how much we can put towards other life expenses. Plus, it's free to sign up to access The Knot Vendor Marketplace.
Final Thoughts
Being a bride is already stressful (and expensive) enough without having to fret about finances for the actual wedding. Using The Knot Vendor Marketplace to find trust-worthy vendors at an affordable price has taken so much stress off of my plate. By having an idea of how much a vendor will charge before we make a booking, we’ve been able to create a realistic budget. We’ll be entering into married life for better or worse but without any wedding debt.