New Mexico Wedding Finance, Loans, Insurance, & Money Q&A

Asking for money instead of wedding gifts

Hi, We will be married in December. My Fiance currently has his own house with all his stuff. I have my own big house with all my stuff. We will be combining all our stuff into 1 house. We do not need anything except money to help out with the Honeymoon, or maybe gift certificates. How do we.... [Read more]

Coed Shower on a tight budget!

A friend of mine is getting married in March in a faraway place which all of us bridesmaids will have to pay for our own hotel rooms, etc. Well, another friend of mine and me are wanting to have a couples shower for her and her fiance. But, we are both on tight budgets and will be spending even.... [Read more]

Second Wedding Money Dilemas HELP!!!

This is a second wedding for both my Fiance and me. So.. naturally we are paying for it ourselves. However neither one of us had a wedding the first time around and would like to make this as much of a "regular" wedding as possible. Due to the budget we are on, (very very small), we cannot.... [Read more]

Money or registry?

we plan to buy a house shortly after getting married...we would like to let our guests know that we would like money for this, but what way is appropriate?

we also would like to set up a small registry for the bridal shower, and for people who feek more comfortable giving gifts than money, we.... [Read more]

Ideas for a small wedding on a small budget

I am so thankful to have found this site. My fiance and I are planning to get married in July. We are buying a home so we don't have a large budget for our wedding and we don't want to ask our parents to foot the bill. Therefore, we are working with a budget of around $4000. We are only using cash,.... [Read more]