Batches Media presents The Batches Brides Podcast, a show for the wedding

obsessed and the brides who are stressed. Because after all, it's only one day of your life.

Hello and welcome back to Batches Brides. I'm Jordana Abraham and I'm Nicole Pellegrino and today

we are so excited to be back this week because this episode you all have been asking us for

so long and we finally found the perfect guest to speak to this topic because as you as

know, you know, Jordana and I, we love weddings, we love our own weddings, but we're not like,

you know, 100% wedding experts. We feel like we are these days because all we do is plan our

weddings and talk about them. But we found an even better expert to talk about budgeting

for your wedding and saving money. Her name is Jeffra Trump Power. She's the senior director of

Creative Marketing at Wedding Wire. So needless to say, she does all of the wedding expertise stuff

over at Wedding Wire. We love it. They, you know, they're a great resource for wedding stuff,

especially when it comes to knowing how much things cost. So welcome, Jeffra. We're so excited

to have you. Thank you guys for the warm welcome. I am also very excited about this. This is one

of my favorite topics. So I can't wait to get started. Yeah, I feel like the topic of

budgets in general is just like, it's such a hard question because there's so many different factors

that go into like, it'd be great if it was like, you should, you should spend like everyone should

spend $20,000 on their wedding or something like that. Like, it could be so much easier that way,

but I feel like so much berries based on like customs, like religion, like geographic area.

There's so many different like things that go into like the way that people view how much

a wedding should cost. Do you find that also? Yes, we absolutely do. And we're seeing it even more

lately in the last few years because couples are personalizing their experience. So it's not as

cut and dry as the traditional, hey, here are the 10 things you need for your wedding. And here's

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