{"id":27,"date":"2026-10-07T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/2026\/10\/07\/where-to-spend-and-where-to-save-on-your-wedding-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:51:24","slug":"where-to-spend-and-where-to-save-on-your-wedding-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/2026\/10\/07\/where-to-spend-and-where-to-save-on-your-wedding-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to spend and where to save on your wedding budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 650 weddings we can tell you exactly which parts of a budget guests remember, and which they forget before dessert. The good news: the memorable list is short.<\/p>\n<h2>Spend here<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Food and drink.<\/strong> Guests forgive almost anything except being hungry. A generous menu and a bar that never runs out matter more than the chairs they sit on.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photography.<\/strong> It is the only thing you keep. Book the best photographer you can afford before you book flowers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Music.<\/strong> A good band or DJ decides whether people dance or drift home at ten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Save here<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Favors \u2014 most are left on the table<\/li>\n<li>Printed programs \u2014 a single welcome sign does the job<\/li>\n<li>Large floral installations in rooms guests only pass through<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Put the money where guests spend the most time: at the table and on the dance floor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Every couple is different, so we always start with one question: what do you want people to say on the drive home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three line items guests always notice, and the ones nobody remembers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-budget","tag-planning-tips","tag-wedding-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-wedding-planner-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}