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What to Add to Your Wedding Registry When You Have Everything
Nothing to add to your wedding registry? Think again! I’ll share a few ideas for items you might want to consider adding to your wedding registry when you think you have everything. Wedding Registry Building 101 My fiancé and I recently completed our wedding registry. It was STRESSFUL! We knew having a large wedding, we’d need to create a drawn out list of items for our guests to gift us. Really, we just wanted cash. We have a quaint house with limited space for “stuff”. BUT, my future mother-in-law (god love her!) is perhaps a little more traditional and thought asking for cash only is tacky, calling it a “cash…
Little White Dresses for Bride Perfect for All Bridal Occasions
Hi friends! Welcome back to The Chic Capitalist blog. Or if you’re new here, welcome! If you’re planning a wedding (like me!), I bet you’re searching like crazy right now for little white dresses for bride. And if so, you’re in luck! I’ve already recommended a few cute and affordable white bachelorette party dresses in a prior post. If you haven’t already, check it out: Read More However, because styles are constantly changing in the world of bridal fashion, I thought I’d take it upon myself to share a few more of my favorite little white dresses for brides. These styles are versatile and can be worn for an engagement…
My Steel Blue Bridesmaid Dresses and How To Pick Your Wedding Colors
Choosing a color for your bridesmaid dresses can be daunting! With so many different color schemes and hues to choose from, it can feel overwhelming for any bride. I eventually chose steel blue for my wedding, but it wasn’t by any means any easy decision. Disclosure: Please note that some of the links are affiliate links and at no additional cost to you, I may earn a commission. When you use one of my affiliate links, it helps me run this blog and keep all of this content free of charge for readers (like you). Please review my disclaimer policy for further information. Steel Blue? Another Shade of Blue? Or…
The Average Wedding Cost for Flowers is More Than You Think
Hi friends! Welcome back to The Chic Capitalist blog. Today, we’re discussing the average wedding cost for flowers and why they’re so dang expensive! I encourage you to read through my full commentary, but if you’re only here to get an idea of how much you should expect to spend on your wedding floral arrangements, simply click the button below to access my wedding flower calculator: Calculate Wedding Flower Costs My Experience With Wedding Flowers If you’ve been following my journey, you might know that I’m getting married this year (2024). Recently, my fiancé and I began to look at wedding florists. From the very get-go we both agreed flowers…
White Bachelorette Party Dresses That Are Frickin’ Affordable
I’ve spent hours online scrolling to find the perfect white dress. First for my engagement photos (mission unsuccessful – I eventually went with a blue dress) and now for my upcoming bachelorette party in June. Today, I’ve pulled three of my favorite white bachelorette party dresses from my closet to share with you. In my opinion, each of these 3 styles have very different vibes. So depending on the location, seasonality, etc. of your bachelorette party, one dress may fit the bill better than the other two. However, all 3 dresses share one thing in common: they are affordable and they’re fashionable enough you’ll want to wear them! At the…
Cheapest Engagement Rings and Things to Consider Before Getting Engaged
Everyone talks about the financial considerations of getting married: filing a joint tax return, joint bank accounts, joint credit cards – you name it! And it’s true! Getting married has a lot of financial implications. However, you don’t hear much about the financial implications of getting engaged. In this post, I shed light into some of these costs and put together a list of the cheapest engagement rings under $500. See Cheapest Engagement Rings Why An Engagement is So Dang Expensive Before I delve in and reveal my list of the cheapest engagement rings under $500, I want to take a moment to reflect on what makes the engagement process…
How Much Should You Give For A Wedding Gift?
Have you ever wondered how much you should give for a wedding gift? Or whether you need to give a wedding gift at all? As a bride-to-be and someone who will be attending A LOT of weddings over the next year, I have a few thoughts on this topic. So much so, I developed my own cash wedding gift calculator. Calculate Wedding Gift! Proper Wedding Gift Etiquette vs. Breaking the Bank Before I unveil my cash wedding gift calculator, I want to start off by telling a silly little story. Recently, my fiancé and I were traveling with my brother and his girlfriend for a family wedding. After paying for…
How to Save For A Wedding in A Year
Saving for a wedding is no joke! My fiancé and I managed to save for our wedding in the span of a year by following these 9 simple steps.
Stock and An Outfit for Fall Engagement Photos Under $100
Are you looking for the perfect fall engagement photo outfit? How about one that doesn’t break the bank? In this post, I set out to find 3 fashionable and affordable looks for fall engagement photos that ring in under $100. As a bonus, I’ll also share with you 3 stocks you can invest in with the excess funds. You really can have it all: 1 cute outfit and 1 share of stock for only $100! Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and at no additional cost to you, I may earn a commission. Know that I only recommend products from brands that I personally…
The Cost to Be a Beautiful Bridesmaid
They said being a bridesmaid would be fun…but they didn’t say it’d be cheap We’ve all been there; sitting at a wedding, watching the procession of bridesmaids and thinking heck they look good! I wonder how long it took them to get ready. Recently, I had the honor and privilege of serving as a bridesmaid in my cousin’s wedding. And yes, it was my first time as a bridesmaid, so I really had no idea what to expect. Given that my own wedding is fast approaching (T minus 10 months – woot woot!), I was ecstatic to see firsthand how all the hard work in the planning stage paid off…
