At a recent bridal panel hosted by the Las Vegas Wedding Network, eight local Las Vegas brides dished about what worked, what didn’t work, what they wished for and what they got when it came to their weddings. Their biggest beef about their own experience, they didn’t know how to design a realistic budget.

“I, and I think we, just didn’t know what things cost,” admitted one bride, who was followed by all brides on the panel nodding in agreement.

The brides, whose approximated end expenditures totaled anywhere from $14,000 to $90,000, shared that because of their lack of understanding, when it came to the costs of their wedding’s creative partners and details, their original budget doubled and in some cases tripled by the time their wedding day arrived

Though none of the brides used a wedding planner, most all agreed in hindsight they wished they had, for several reasons, including the fact that a planner would have been able to educate them about the true cost of services and supplies and probably saved them money.

What advice about budget do you have for brides?