Bridal Koolaid Cocktail Hour #5 | The Big Budget Episode

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Sherry and John opted for a DIY backyard wedding surrounded by lots of friends and family.

Welcome to Episode five of the Bridal Koolaid Cocktail Hour. Today we’re talking to Lindsey from Frugally Wed about wedding budgets and what the first thing you need to do if you want a big wedding on a small budget. Yes it can happen, according to Lindsey. Listen to ideas about how to save for your wedding, how long your should save for it, and what portion of your income you should set aside for you wedding.

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Bridal Koolaid Cocktail Hour #4

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(Don’t let the pretty picture fool you. This episode is as raw as ever!)

Rogue Bride insists that each episode of the Bridal Koolaid Cocktail Hour gets better. This week, I agree. We have Louise from The Thirty Something Bride with us as we discuss cheap knockoff dresses from China, David’s Bridal, (low-cost solution, or evil empire?), and wedding dress markups at bridal salons. We also have Cris from Kiss My Tulle make a special appearance to talk about Free Wedding Dresses.

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Bridal Koolaid Cocktail Hour

This week luxury wedding photographer and photography business blogger Todd Reichman joins us to discuss the the controversial post “Dear Wedding Bloggers, You Suck,” Jonas Peterson’s subsequent “Mason Jar Manifesto,” and Abby Larson of Style Me Pretty’s reply to both as well as where brides fit into all of this.

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Bridal Koolaid Cocktail Hour episode #2

We’re back with another episode of BKCH with the Rogue Bride, where we explore the oft ignored corners of Wedding Word and share real stories and real prices. This week we interviewed Rachel from Black Market Bakery.  Rachel shared information about:

• How bakers determine what to charge for wedding cakes
• How to properly transport a wedding cake
• Tips on decorating your own wedding cake (hint, go with asymmetry)
• Questions to ask your baker

This week the Rogue Bride also shares her stories finding a florist and a photographer; we talk about practical jokes at weddings, and dish on the Wedding Merchants Business Academy meeting.

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This is as raw and as h0nest as it gets.

Let me just start by saying, I am both amazingly thrilled and scared completely shitless to publish today’s podcast.

I’ve teamed up with the Rogue Bride to create the most honest, authentic, no-holds-barred podcast covering everything from cheap-assed wedding dresses to the cost of DIY weddings to the fact that 15K is A LOT of money in the real world–that is, outside of the wedding world. But we also discuss vendor pricing, self-improvement during the planning process, and our consummate (and maybe even just a bit hypocritical) love of  all the “The Pretty Pretty” we find daily on wedding blogs. It’s a big show! (more…)