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It’s Spring Wedding Season: 4 Tips on How to Protect Your Budget

You can only get "more awesome" if you're not getting married by keeping costs low

A few tips for the frugal-minded person.

By Darren Sands

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Be A Marriage Planner, Not A Wedding Planner

In far too many cases, the only time couples engage in financial planning as a team (if ever) is to finance their wedding and honeymoon.

Are you about to put a ring on it? Now is as good a time…

By Alfred Edmond, Jr.

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Survey Says the Average Wedding Costs $28,400

Couples splurged a little more on weddings last year

The average cost of a wedding is the highest since 2008

By Makkada B. Selah

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Can you guess how much this ring from Zales retails for?

When It Comes to Buying an Engagement Ring, What’s a (Middle Income) Man to Do?

You like it, so you got to put a ring on it. But how?

Is that bright shining diamond worth all the trouble?

By Kenny Pugh

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A bridal entrepreneur breaks through the “Pink Ghetto”

A Bridal Entrepreneur Breaks Through the “Pink Ghetto”

Entrepreneur Kellee Khalil’s Lover.ly service aggregates great wedding ideas online

Wedding planning grosses an estimated $99 billion dollars a year.

By C. Daniel Baker

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Small Business, Big Success: Events Diva Diann Valentine’s Tips for Entrepreneurs

How the TV host and author expanded her brand from humble beginnings

Wedding and events entrepreneur Diann Valentine tells how she’s kept her business viable

By Janell Hazelwood

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Woman of Power: Amsale Aberra, Designing a Legacy

The renowned designer talks about being a Black Enterprise woman of power, receiving a legacy award and building her business

The renowned designer talks about being a Black Enterprise woman of power, receiving a legacy…

By Bridgette Bartlett

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Five Ways to Cut Wedding Costs

Your big day can look like a million buckswithout the huge price tag

When Aubrey Whitten and Major LeGrand started pricing their wedding options, they got sticker shock.

By Alisa Gumbs

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Here Comes the Wedding Day

Since starting his self-titled business, Events by André Wells, six years ago, André Wells has…

By Sonia Alleyne

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Love Don’t Cost a Thing

Personal touches can add bang to a wedding without the bucks

Television is overrun with shows about weddings. Some focus on finding a gown, some profile…

By Alisa Gumbs

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