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Video #1 Planning A Micro Wedding under $8k 

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Video #1 Planning A Micro Wedding under $8k 

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Jess (niceskindays), a YouTube blogger, shared her own experience of successfully planning a sweet micro-wedding in Toronto on less than $8000.

Her story showed the essence of a wedding, no matter the size. And as a married person, I can really relate to her - a memorable wedding doesn't have to be an overwhelming big event. Instead, it can be a small, simple but warm celebration where couples share their precious moment with intimate friends and family. Jess shared details about the planning, execution and day of the ceremony. In the end, she paid $0 for the planning service as she took on the role herself. This allowed her to find her favourite independent photographer and florist to work with. She listed her costs in terms of essentials and money that she was able to cut. I really like her idea of having a minimalist ceremony in a studio and a family dinner in another lovely restaurant.

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Video #2 How Much Our Backyard Wedding Cost

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Video #2 How Much Our Backyard Wedding Cost

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This video, created by Meghan Livingstone, has earned over 161 thousand views on Youtube. The blogger shared how she planned and spent money on her wedding in the backyard of her in-laws' house in the Toronto area.

The video content was well structured and easy to follow, with the cost of each part of the wedding listed and compared to the average cost in the area. If you dream of a simple, beautiful wedding and want to save money, this video will definitely help you a lot! I love the way the blogger started planning her wedding by finding out the actual average cost of each part, so she could have a better idea when making the budget. There are some brilliant ideas to borrow from, such as having the ceremony in a family's backyard to save on venue and limo hire; using artificial flowers instead of real ones; DIY stationery from canvas.com, to name but a few.

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MINIMAL + Budget-Friendly Wedding Planning | How Much Our Backyard Wedding Cost

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This short slideshow video gives us a clear idea of how much a wedding costs in Canada by dividing the costs into six categories - venue and location, honeymoon, couple wear, multimedia, wedding planning and other.

The creator also lists the components within each category, such as headpiece, hair, jewellery, bridal gown, groom's attire and ring, which are included in the couple wear category. At the end of the video, a pie chart shows that the venue (including catering) takes up half of the total budget, followed by wedding planning (22%) and multimedia (18%). Couple's attire and miscellaneous both cost 10% of the wedding budget.

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Video #4 How Much Does A Wedding Cost in Toronto

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Video #4 How Much Does A Wedding Cost in Toronto

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In this video, two wedding planners Rebecca Chan and Carmen Luk gave their professional insight on how to better plan a dream wedding (mainly in the Toronto area) and still stick to your budget.

I found this video very helpful because during the interview the two planners gave information about the actual cost range of a wedding in Toronto and also gave advice on how to budget by listing your priorities and cutting out items that may not be as necessary as you thought, such as luxury limo hire or wedding cakes (most guests won't remember the favour of a wedding cake). Couples can expect to spend around 50% to 55% of their budget on the venue. Depending on the couple's personal preferences, bands, floral decorations and centrepieces can also be high ticket items.

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MoneySense provides users with professional financial content covering all aspects of our daily lives - saving, budgeting, investing, etc.

Getting married and having a wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime event. It is not easy. MoneySense has many articles about the topic. Unlike some wedding vendors who try to "sell" you romantic illusions, this online magazine will help you analyse your personal financial situation, discuss with your significant other and tight your budget for a truly perfect wedding. Many of their little tips could help you spend money wisely on your wedding, such as how to downsize the wedding, keep an eye on the little things and skip unnecessary services.

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Personal finance content on the topic of weddings.

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How Much You Should Expect To Pay For Your Wedding

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Image #1 Average Wedding Costs by Country

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Image #1 Average Wedding Costs by Country

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The image shows the average cost of a wedding in different countries in Europe and North America. It is evident that geographic location significantly impacts the cost.

The Czech Republic, Poland and Greece are three of the cheapest European countries at less than $5500, while a wedding in Canada can cost 4 times as much. So why not consider a micro wedding and honeymoon combination in these budget friendly, beautiful European countries?

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標題：How Much You Should Expect To Pay For Your Wedding

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WeddingWire offers free tools to help users plan their wedding ceremony in great detail. These tools include budget tracker, wedding website, guest checklist, seating charts and so on. You can also download the app on your mobile device!

Planning wedding can be stressful and confusing for many engaged couples. I was impressed by the Community section on this website, as it creates an excellent platform for people to ask questions, exchange ideas and communicate with others for wedding DIY. The community allows you to search for couples who held their wedding around the same time or in the same region as yours, helping you efficiently manage your budget.

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Wedding Calculator focuses on helping couples create their own budget and checklist for the breakdown of a wedding.

I recommend this website because it provides a detailed spreadsheet for couples to estimate the cost of each component of their personalised wedding. There is a range of prices that you can use as a reference before entering a budget number for a particular item. You will also find examples of real wedding budgets in different regions of Canada, with details such as the number of guests invited, the location of the venue, the procession of the ceremony, etc. With all this information at your fingertips, you should feel more than confident as you begin to plan your big day!

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Welcome to the 2022 version of Wedding-Calculator.com for Canada

Are you getting married? This site has a number of powerful and easy to use wedding calculators that will help you with the preparations.

Do you need help to get a realistic estimation of all the costs?

This Budget Calculator for Wedding not only gives you this estimate, but also shows you all average wedding costs in Canada.

You will also find examples of real budgets made with this calculator.

Do you want to know how many alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks you need to buy or order for your wedding party?

Use this Alcohol Calculator for Wedding to get an estimate quickly and easily.

You will also get the average cost for drinks at parties in US.

Simply enter the number of persons and this Wedding Cake Calculator will show you the matching cake servings chart.

Also you will find the average cost of wedding cakes and examples of cake servings.

You will also get tips on how to order wedding cake.

What can you do with these wedding calculators?

The results can be downloaded and/or printed easily

With all the Wedding Calculators on this site, you can print and/or download the results. Rather than cluttered pages, the printouts display clearly organized tables on a white background for easy reading and use. The downloaded spreadsheets can be easily opened in Excel or Google Sheets.

Adapt to your situation

The calculators have advanced settings and/or price settings that you can adjust according to your circumstances. For example, you can change the default average prices to your local prices. You can also adjust the estimated amount of softdrinks, beer, wine and liquor your guests will be drinking (are your guests light drinkers or more heavy drinkers or perhaps in between?).

Perfect for wedding planners

Are you a wedding planner, please feel free to use our calculators to make your incredible job a bit easier! The advanced settings and price settings will offer you more freedom to customize the calculations to your customers' needs, make clear print-outs, and download (re-)usable spreadsheets.

Privacy friendly

This site and the tools comply to both the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the more stricter European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We do not use any tracking cookies that follow your surfing behavior across sites. If you do a calculation on this site, you will not start getting all kinds of unsolicited targeted advertisements.

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Free Wedding Calculators to help with marriage preparations

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Are you getting married? This site has a number of powerful and easy to use free Wedding Calculators for Canada that will help you with the preparations.

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A Look At Wedding Industry Waste With Eco-friendly Wedding Guide

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This infographic shows the amount of waste and CO2 emissions produced by the average wedding.

The wedding ceremony is so meaningful and important that people tend to overlook its negative impact on the environment. Start your research and find ways to reduce the waste of resources at your wedding, it could save you a lot of money too!

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Website #4 The 2023 Global Wedding Report

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Website #4 The 2023 Global Wedding Report

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The Knot is a free, all-in-one wedding planning site that provides up-to-date information about getting married.

One of the uniqueness of this site is the Wedding Data & Insights section. With an annual survey report of the wedding industry, we can see how wedding trends, traditions and couples' preferences are changing, as well as the impact of the economy on people getting married. According to the 2023 Global Wedding Report, the most popular month for Canadian weddings is August, with 20% of weddings taking place in that month. The top 5 vendor categories that Canadian couples hire are photography, hair and makeup, officiant, dress and florist. And over 50% of Canadian couples say their wedding budget has been significantly affected by the current economy.

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An in-depth look at weddings across 15 countries

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Hi, welcome to my Padlet! Here we will learn about wedding costs, how to make a budget and inspire you to think outside the box when planning a unique wedding!

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Q1: What did you learn about your topic that surprised you the most?

Me: This assignment has given me the opportunity to research wedding costs and what has surprised me most is the shift towards simple and affordable weddings, as well as the development of free online tools for couples to customise every detail themselves.

Q2: Provide a real-life example of how this topic is relevant or interesting for you.

Me: When I got married a few years ago, my wife and I decided to skip the traditional wedding ceremony and invite our closest families to a restaurant for dinner as our celebration. If I had done this assignment before, I would have been able to plan a micro-ceremony myself :D

Q3: If you could pass on your knowledge to a family member or friends, what do you think is the most important thing to pass on?

Me: A perfect wedding doesn't have to cost a fortune, as long as you decide on the essentials that are most important to you and stick to your budget.