Attending lots of weddings this year? Here's how to budget

The cost of attending a wedding this year is expected to be even higher because soaring inflation has made everything from beauty services to air travel more expensive.

To lower expenses, she attended five of them, but since she was in the wedding party for two and travelled to her hometown of Winnipeg for four, the costs were still significant.

"Saying `no' to things is really hard in the face of someone expecting a `yes' both because you want the people you love to be happy and because we grow up thinking we need to have good reasons to miss these events," she said.

While you don't have to attend every celebration you are invited to, figuring out how to incorporate these events into your budget can make wedding season easier on your wallet.