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Read what the press have been saying about youbuyMYWEDDING's unique service that allows your wedding guests to help pay for your wedding.

How to Get Married Without Getting into Debt
Press Dispensary - May 06, 2008
As the credit crunch continues, thoughts of summer nuptials this year could well be on the wane - if it weren’t for the ingenuity of Youbuymywedding.com (http://www.youbuymywedding.com) which helps happy couples to beat the banks by getting their guests to share the costs of the big day and avoid starting married life in debt.

With Gumtree.com claiming that more than one-third of engaged couples in the UK (35%) are having to scrimp in order to afford marriage costs, while ten per cent are putting off wedding plans altogether, sharing the costs could be the ideal way to beat the budget blues. Read the full story

Get your guests to pay for your wedding 
www.aisledash.com  Dec 10th 2007
Just when I thought I'd seen it all, along comes yet another concept that almost takes my breath away. The sheer cheek of it, was my first thought. How daring! How vulgar!  What am I rabbiting on about?
Getting your guests to pay for your wedding. Yep. Sounds mad, doesn't it?  I looked into it, though, (because heavens above, if one can get other people to pay for the day, why not?) and actually, it's not a bad idea. Why take out a loan and run up huge debts, just for one day in your life?  Read the full story

For richer or poorer
Forget presents, get guests to pay for the big day
Liverpool Confidential 30/07/2007
The cost of an average wedding currently stands at around £18,000.  It used to be tradition that the father of the bride would pay for the wedding, however now the responsibility is often in the hands of the couple to foot the bill.  Liz Quant has launched youbuyMYWEDDING.com whose intention is to take the financial strain off couples' wedding plans by replacing the traditional gift list with an online invitation to share the costs of the big day. ... If you need some extra cash to play with then youbuymywedding.com might just be able to afford you that dream day.  Read the full story.

Spread the Load
An Essex Wedding Magazine 09/07/2007
If you are a little hesitant about asking for money as your wedding gift but have your household items already, there is an alternative.  ..... The idea is that you'll start married life without a big wedding debt and guests can easily and conveniently contribute something that they know will be worthwhile and hugely appreciated. Read the full story.  (This story was also featured in Your Herts and Beds Wedding Magazine on 09/07/2007)

DON'T GO IN RED TO WED - Our top tips for a financially stress-free big day
Melanie Wright 06/05/2007 Sunday Mirror
THE wedding season will soon be in full swing - but for many couples tying the knot will cost so much that they might as well change the vows to "till debt do us part".
GET GUESTS TO HELP OUT
THIS week saw the launch of a new website called www.youbuymywedding.com, which replaces the traditional gift list with an online invitation to guests to share the costs of the big day.
Couples pay a registration fee of £49.95. They then get a reference number which they can include on their invitations. The number enables guests to log on to the couple's own page and pledge money towards the part of the wedding they would like to help pay for - from flowers to the honeymoon.
Liz Quant, creator of youbuymywedding.com, said: "Weddings cost an enormous amount of money and it can take some of the fun out of things if you're forced to borrow huge amounts.
This idea also does away with the frustration of unwanted or duplicate gifts. Just how many toasters does a newly-married couple need?"
Click here to read the full article in the Sunday Mirror  06/05/07

Youbuymywedding.com Invites Guests to Share costs of the Big Day
30 April 2007
Newly weds currently shell out a whopping "£18,000 to cover the average cost of their wedding? and usually end up offering profuse thanks to their red-faced guests for a luxury assortment of unwanted toasters...
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