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12. Incorporate Family Traditions and Heritage

When some people dream of having an extravagant wedding, they’re more focused on whatever the newest trend may be, or having a big ceremony to impress their guests. But instead of focusing on how over the top the wedding could be, ask yourself if you are representing your family traditions or heritage in any way. Here in the United States, we tend to Americanize weddings to the point where almost all ceremonies are the same, no matter where your family came from. When you “keep up with the Jones’s”, it usually just puts you in a lot of debt.

Your parents or grandparents probably have some ideas of what you can do to incorporate your heritage into the special day. By honoring the generations that came before you, you are likely to have a closer family unit of your own someday. And it’s far more likely that these older wedding traditions are affordable, since people haven’t been spending tens of thousands of dollars on weddings until recently. If your parents all had Americanized weddings too, do some research to see what your ancestors did during their wedding ceremonies. You may want to incorporate one or two traditions from both you and your partner’s families.