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Working out the finances aspect of a wedding served to be a big challenge for us because we simply did not know what the market had to offer. How do you put a budget for say, photography, when you don't even know how much any of the companies out there charge? So we got down to a lot of researching and enquiring. Attending the 'Wedding and Shopping Asia 2014' at Singapore Expo a few weeks ago really gave us a brief overview of what services and costs the market could offer.

For the past few weeks, we made decisions on
- setting a budget
- setting the wedding date and time
- deciding on the wedding venue
- hiring wedding services providers
- type of wedding (size, formality and setting)
- wedding bands/rings

My best friend shared with me a comprehensive Excel spreadsheet that serves as a great tool to manage and monitor the financial aspect of  a Malay/Muslim wedding. I uploaded ours on Google Drive so we both have access to it and can edit it anytime! Here's how it looks like:

There's even formulas included that calculates the total amount of expenditure. Pretty handy! You could drop me a message if you'd like me to send the document to you (: