Are there poor people? Yes
The purpose of this thread is how to afford a wedding, not I am poor, I will always be poor.
1)Will anyone know if you did make a budget showing all your income and all your expenses on a monthly basis? Not unless you tell.
2)Will it cost you anything to make the budget? Only the time it takes to prepare the budget and perhaps some ink and paper if you don’t have a spreadsheet program.
3) If it doesn’t cost anything and no one will know that you are doing it, why wouldn’t people try to do it? People are afraid of change even if it’s for the better.
4) If they follow my idea and make more money then they need for the wedding what will they do with the excess funds? They will have to ask that on a different thread
There are two ways of saving money one way is to cut expenses as I have shown you. The other is to find another job. Robbing banks is not the answer? Likewise having someone else pick up the tab also isn’t the solution.