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Bride _screams_ out ...
"STOP THE DEBT"
Imagine If Today, You Put Into Motion _"A Couple Of Small Actions"_
That In Just A Few Short Weeks Created Your Dream Wedding And In Which
The Only Way You Make Your
Groom-to-be _Love You More_ Would Be To Tell Him:
"The Good News Is That The Wedding Is All Paid For, Even Better The
Costs Came In Well Under Budget, And To Top It All You Can Go Ahead
And Rent The Ferrari For Your Bachelor Party!"
Dear Bride-to-be,
I will be honest with you ... the truth is sometimes hard to take,
but it is important YOU are crystal clear on just one thing relating
to your wedding.
In all of our giddy excitement at being newly engaged and embarking
on this wedding planning adventure, we are easy targets for those
wedding vultures! The wedding industry machine feeds us myths and we
believe them .. because we can trust them.can't we?
"Don't believe me? See if this sounds familiar . . . "
WARNING: Here are the Three Biggest Myths about Wedding Planning
that will _NEVER_ get YOU the result you want - "The Wedding of Your
Dreams Without a Penny of Debt":
MYTH # 1: You should use wedding vendors recommended to you by your
ceremony and reception venues or preferred by your wedding planner as
they already have a great working relationship with them and are
familiar with their work.
REALITY: Don't for one minute think that the venue, other vendors or
your wedding planner are doing you a favor. They will be pocketing
kickbacks for their referrals - no wonder they are so eager for you to
use their recommendations for caterers, entertainers, photographers
and florists. You are much better off researching and sourcing out
your own wedding vendors so that you can benefit from discounts they
offer. I will show you how you can pocket those discounted dollars and
pounds yourself rather than passing them onto your wedding venue or
wedding planner!
MYTH # 2: You must tell wedding vendors that it is a wedding you are
planning at the time of booking wedding services and supplies.
REALITY: This is biggest myth around! As soon as you attach the word
"Wedding" to an event vendor's eyes fill with dollar signs and their
prices suddenly triple. There is absolutely no need to mention the "W"
word to your wedding vendors. For example, when researching caterers,
as far as they are concerned you are asking them for a quotation for
their costs for serving a 3 course meal to a party of 100 guests on a
certain date. Whether it's a Bar Mitzvah, a family reunion or a
wedding reception it should make no difference at all to the price
they quote you - the service they will provide you with will be the
same. YOUR JAW WILL DROP AS I SHARE THE _SECRETS_ TO TURNING THE
TABLES ON THE WEDDING INDUSTRY WHEN PLANNING YOUR WEDDING!
MYTH # 3: Wedding planners will save you so much time, money and
effort.
REALITY: There is no denying that wedding planners are skilled
negotiators who can get you great deals but you can achieve the same
thing yourself. Agreed, wedding planners have experience, but at the
end of the day they are concerned with keeping their own bank balance
healthy not yours! Fortunately though, with my insider information,
you will soon be beating them at their own game by instantly becoming
a CREATIVE NEGOTIATOR, A DIPLOMATIC PROBLEM-SOLVER AND AN IMAGINATIVE
GENIUS without having to sacrifice months of your own precious time to
wedding planning.
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"Do NOT Fall For These Myths!"
The wedding industry feeds us these expensive wedding fantasies and
then just as we are reaching out for the wedding of our dreams they
crush us into a financial hole it's difficult to get out of.
They swoop down on you with their impressive jargon, their legally
binding contracts and their empty promises.
If you've been dreaming about your lavish white wedding since you
were tiny then _don't_ let these predators put you off! Relax. I
guarantee I can show you how you can plan your wedding like a pro and
get the best deals at the best prices.
"Why Should You Listen To Me?
What Is So Special About Me?"
My name is Elle Brown and during the last 3 years I've had the
pleasure of helping over 525,000 brides worldwide with tips, support
and advice in response to their wedding planning problems and shown
them how to plan their perfect wedding whilst holding onto a healthy
bank balance and (most importantly) their sanity!
I'm not a professional wedding planner - I haven't got their
organizational skills and I certainly was not lucky enough to be born
with a natural ability to haggle! I'm just having fun sharing my
wedding wisdom with other brides like you.
I don't want to see you make the same mistakes that I made and so
I'm speaking out.
Here's My Story ...
A few years ago I was organizing my own wedding. Just like yourself
I was continually looking for ways in which I could plan my wedding to
perfection whilst still being a savvy bride-to-be and getting the most
I could out of my moderate wedding budget.
Like a sheep following the rest of the flock I bought the usual
wedding magazines and manuals, trooped along to every wedding show
going and avidly watched reality wedding TV shows hoping to pick up
"how to" tips for my wedding planning.
I can't tell you the number of times I burnt a hole in my pocket
convinced I had found the ultimate wedding planning guide, only to
realize later that they all contained the same old recycled drive!
As I began to plan my wedding it turned into a struggle I could
never have imagined and worse still.. I went spiraling into debt!
"Can You Relate To This? Wait ... It Gets Worse!"
I persevered with the resources I had ....
... but then I made the most costly mistake ever ...
I attended a Wedding Show with my Mum and best friend to have a look
at wedding dresses. I approached an impressive wedding gown stand and
was I found the perfect wedding dress - I felt like a fairytale
princess in it - the tears in my Mum's eyes were enough to tell me
that I had found "the dress".
As soon as I got my wallet out we were surrounded by attentive
helpful staff pressing champagne into our hands and making me feel
like a pampered princess as I handed over my deposit for the most
exquisite (and expensive) dress I had ever bought. I made arrangements
to call into their store for my dress fitting and floated the rest of
the way home on a cloud of visions of me on my wedding day in "that
dress".
"Then I came back down to earth _with a bump_!"
When I arrived at the wedding dress store 2 weeks later for my first
fitting the staff had a few surprises in store for me!
The 15% discount which I had been offered at the Wedding Show for
ordering there and then on the day - it turned out it did not apply to
the expensive dress I had chosen (my first experience of not reading
the small print on the contract!), I was offered 8% as a compromise
and this was just the tip of the iceberg.
Embellishments on the dress which I had been told came as standard
(fabric roses attached to the shoulders and netting underneath) were
now being hailed as "additional costs" for which I would be charged
the materials and labor costs for adding them to my dress. I was
shocked!
UPSET BRIDE SHOCKED BY "ADDITIONAL COSTS"!
The shop staff (who were so lovely and helpful at the Wedding Show)
were arrogant, indifferent and completely unprepared to admit any
fault on their part. It was as if as soon as I paid the deposit for
the dress the niceties were dropped by the staff.
And so my dress fitting experience _(which should have been one of
the most special experiences of my life)_ was upsetting, stressful and
ended in tears!
OK .... so after I dried my tears I realised that this had taught me
some valuable lessons which I wish someone had shared with me at the
outset of my wedding planning.
"But The Punches Kept On Coming!"
My next jaw-dropping moment came when I went to meet with the newly
appointed manager at our chosen reception venue to discuss table
layouts for our wedding reception. He informed me that as we were
giving our male guests miniature bottles of alcohol as wedding favors
on their premises they would be charging us $6 corkage on each of
them!
"I Thought He Was Joking At First"
The miniature whiskies which we were giving our guests only cost $3
each!!! Of course I understood that corkage is charged by venues as a
way for them to make up for lost sales at weddings where couples
provide their guests with alternative alcohol but come on .... the
whisky miniatures we were giving our guests contained 5cl, that is one
mouthful of booze - how on earth did they think that such a tiny
amount of whisky was going to affect their bar sales during the
evening of our wedding!
"Did Our Verbal Agreement Mean Nothing?"
I pointed this out to him as well as the fact that the former venue
manager had verbally agreed at our initial meeting that there was no
problem with us distributing alcoholic favors but arguing proved
futile - he was adamant that it was hotel policy to charge for
corkage. My fianc and I had no room for negotiation either because by
this stage our $2,000 non-refundable deposit had already been
deposited by the unwavering venue staff! I couldn't believe that I had
fallen prey YET AGAIN to greedy and incompetent wedding service
providers.
"Why Is This Happening To Me
- Do I Have _"idiot"_ Written Across My Forehead?"
Suddenly wedding planning was not fun for me any more! I was ready
to throw the towel in and give up on my plans for a traditional
wedding in my Scottish hometown and organize a Las Vegas quickie
wedding _(and say goodbye to a large chunk of our wedding budget I had
spent on deposits in the process)!_
I was tired of the underhand money-making schemes these wedding
vendors were using to pilfer my shrinking wedding fund and I was too
scared to approach other vendors out of fear that they too would
emotionally blackmail me into thinking that if I didn't have the best
of everything on my wedding day it would not be perfect!
"The UGLY Truth was ..."
The ugly truth was that I was waking up every day with a growing
fear that my wedding planning was spiraling my fianc and I into more
and more debt. I would whisk credit card bills away before my fianc
could see how much our perfect wedding was costing us. The boxes of
wedding receipts hidden under the bed became my shameful secret.
"I Was Ready To Quit!"
As the tally of wedding debts grew so did my anxiety - the last
thing I expected was for my wedding planning to have spun out of
control like this! I was heading down a one-way path to misery and I
didn't know how to stop.
"Then I Had A Light Bulb Moment!"
It occurred to me I had to change my thinking - in essence get
smart. It hit me that ONE DAY of celebration was not worth sacrificing
the well-being of my relationship or starting out married life
worrying about wedding debts for! And as a result of this I learned
the most important lesson in my life, quite simply ...
"Don't Get MAD, Get Even"
So, I immediately put the brakes on my wedding planning, locked away
my credit cards and went back to basics. Off I went in search of
information and advice to help me significantly improve my wedding
planning. I was on a mission to discover why some people found it
incredibly easy to plan a wedding on an average budget whilst the vast
majority struggled.
I did a lot of research - I searched online, offline, read wedding
planning manuals and spoke to other brides. But it was a trip to my
local grocery store provided me with the eye-opening secrets to savvy
wedding planning!
"This Was The Wake Up Call I Needed"
During a trip to my local grocery store I met a friend who I hadn't
seen since we were at school together. We swopped stories, I told her
my sad tale of wedding planning despair and she told me that she had
been working as a certified Wedding Planner in the wedding industry
for a few years - BRILLIANT!!
"Suddenly I Understood The Wedding Industry Tricks And Scams From An
Insider's Viewpoint"
Over coffee she offered to reveal to me wedding industry tips which
were NOT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE and which had allowed her to help brides
plan one of the most memorable days of their lives without going into
debt or a stress-induced coma! She shared with me the secrets which
most brides learn after their wedding when it's too late! Suddenly I
understood the wedding industry tricks and scams from an insider's
viewpoint.
From what she told me I was able to devise a wedding planning
strategy which would allow me to be firmly in the driver seat rather
than being taken for a ride by those wedding vendors who had so far
manipulated and steered me headfirst along the path towards wedding
planning misery and debt!
With my practical plan and a lot of determination I turned my
wedding planning around.
"I Could See Light At The End Of The Wedding Planning Tunnel!"
Finally I had discovered how to enjoy my wedding planning without
going into debt for it. I'd learned:
easy negotiating methods
tactics for dealing with tricky wedding vendors
solutions to every wedding dilemma I encountered
how what I lacked in money for my wedding I could more than make up
for with creative ideas and a bit of elbow grease!
Using Everything I Had Learned, My Fianc And I Paid
Off All Of Our Wedding Debts BEFORE
We Walked Up The Aisle!
My friends started to ask me how I had planned such a PICTURE
PERFECT WEDDING _without_ going one cent over budget...
"I Had No Idea So Many People
Would Want To Know What I Had To Say!"
Women I hardly knew would interrupt me during yoga classes asking in
hushed tones if I could share some tips with them for their own
upcoming nuptials.
Friends would invite me on girls nights out, only to be challenged
over my glass of chardonnay by their frazzled co-workers asking how
they could make their lavish wedding dreams a reality without having
to sell their firstborn!
"Friends And Family Beat A Path To My Door
To Get Their Hands On My Secrets!"
I never professed to be a wedding planning expert but somehow word
got out and I received increasing numbers of questions and cries for
help from other brides-to-be.
I received hundreds of emails from bride-to-be's and their families
in response to my wedding blog hounding me to share my wedding secrets
with them.
So, it got me thinking...
"Why Not Make The Secrets Available To EVERYONE?"
I realized how valuable my knowledge was; I wanted to share my
secrets with the rest of the world and save any other brides-to-be
from making the mistakes that I know could drive them into
post-wedding debt.
And so, I took the plunge!
It took me a while to figure out how to share this information - I
spent countless nights in front of my pc screen compiling all my
research and life experiences with wedding planning.
Finally I created a simple (yet comprehensive) step-by-step "system"
in the form of a book that allows ANY bride-to-be to learn how to
effortlessly cut their wedding costs in half and keep their wedding
budget and planning in check - regardless of whether they have a
wedding budget of $1,000 or $100,000!
"Friends And Family Were Beating A Path To My Door
To Get Their Hands On My _Insider_ Secrets!"
I shared with them:
How to get hugely reduced prices - discover how I saved over $10,000
on my own wedding with key insider information.
The easy way to cut 70% off your wedding cake cost without
sacrificing quality, quantity or yumminess!
An amazing way to _save 50%-80%_ of your entire wedding expense to
have the exact same wedding. And it doesn't matter whether your
wedding budget is $5,000 or $50,000
How to wipe the _"Rip me off!"_ label wedding vendor's see printed
across your forehead and then obliterate the smile from those same
vendor's faces!
How you also can slash 70% off alcohol costs, 50% off flowers and
80% off your transportation costs!
The _"5 insider rules"_ which will help you to avoid 99% of wedding
industry scams. These are _very easy_ to follow, simple to implement
and will work on ANY wedding vendor. Even if you get overcharged, you
WILL get your money back, Guaranteed!
Discover the insider's exclusive secrets wedding planners and
industry insiders deliberately don't tell you!
Learn how you too can pay off all of our wedding debts BEFORE you
walk up the aisle!
Discover the secrets which helped to cut my wedding budget in half!
Read practical words of wisdom from real brides sharing their
invaluable tips and advice on how they successfully planned their own
debt-free weddings
_"Must Ask"_ questions for wedding vendors
Where to find hugely REDUCED prices on your wedding favors and
decorations
Simple tricks to _slash 70% off_ your photography and videography
costs
How you can glide down the aisle radiating in compliments and
inwardly smiling as you think how much money you have saved on your
wedding!
How to spend less for your Catering and Beverages without
compromising on quality or quantity!
DISCOVER the tricks used by caterers to squeeze most money from you
Learn how one simple phone call could _slash your wedding costs_ by
hundreds of dollars
How to OUTSMART your wedding venue manager and get exactly what you
want at the price you can afford
Little-known tricks wedding planners use to help you choose the
perfect theme for your wedding
LEARN eye-opening SECRETS about how to rent a first-class reception
venue for a bargain basement price
I will spill the secrets on how to get the absolutely cheapest price
possible for accessories including your veil, wedding shoes and tiara
How to AVOID the pitfalls which will cost you money when booking
entertainment for your wedding
So, if you too want to splurge on luxuries for your wedding and
still have money left in the pot read on ....
"There Is Absolutely NO Reason Why You Can't Achieve The Amazing
Results That My Other Brides Have Enjoyed"
These brides are just ordinary people like YOU and me. They all have
wedding planning success stories to tell of how they conquered the
wedding industry scams and escaped wedding debt - it's thrilling for
me to see!
"Proof That My System Works"
I GUARANTEE THAT THESE SECRETS WILL WORK FOR YOU because they have
worked for hundreds of brides just like you. Don't take my word for
it. See what other brides are saying:
