The conversations wealthy mothers have with their daughters,
finally written down.
Two guides to money, marriage, and quiet wealth — written the way these lessons were always meant to be passed on. Over tea. Without apology.
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$27 · Instant PDF download · 21 pages & printable checklist
The conversation every woman deserves before her biggest financial decision — which is not the house, and is not the career. It is the marriage. Inside:
CH. ONE
The Three Things You Own First
An asset in your name. Six months in your own account. His full financial picture.CH. TWO
How to Read a Man's Money Character
The signals, the quiet tests life runs for you, and the green flags worth marrying.CH. THREE
The Conversations Before the Ring
The Ten Questions — and how to ask them without killing the romance.CH. FOUR
Prenups & Separate Property
What stays yours, how it stops being yours, and the hour of advice worth more than the flowers.CH. FIVE
The Joint Account Trap
The three-account structure of the happiest marriages — and what never merges casually.CH. SIX
If It Goes Wrong
Quiet readiness, the signals to never ignore, and rebuilding with clean hands.CH. SEVEN
Teaching Your Daughters
The inheritance that matters more than money.WORKBOOK
The Before-You-Say-Yes Checklist
A printable page covering your foundation, his picture, and your conversations.
$47 · Instant PDF download · 40 rules + 8-page workbook
Old money is not an amount. It is an operating system — forty quiet rules about earning, keeping, marrying, speaking, and standing, passed down in families that never needed to say them out loud. Now they are written down.
PART I
Her Own Money · Rules 1–10
Pay yourself first. Own assets, not income. Build the moat. Never sign unread.PART II
Men, Marriage & Merging · Rules 11–20
Marry character, audit habits. Never co-sign out of love. Choose the calm man.PART III
The Quiet Code · Rules 21–30
Whisper wealth. Master the table. Let them underestimate you.PART IV
Legacy & The Long Game · Rules 31–40
Think in decades. Teach daughters before they are in love. Begin.
Not just the rules — the system that installs them.
My Numbers — the monthly one-page ledger of your financial truth
The Estate Ledger — what you own, what you owe, where it's headed
The Moat Builder — calculate your six-month number and bridge the gap
The Monthly Money Hour — the recurring review wealthy women never skip
The Circle Audit — five names, one honest question
The 90-Day Old Money Plan — foundation, structure, long game
The Forty Rules Tracker — one page of truth, reviewed quarterly
THE COMPLETE LIBRARY
The Cece Collection
Both books, bought separately — $74
$59
Before You Say Yes, Old Money Rules for Women, the full eight-page workbook, the 90-Day Plan, and every checklist — delivered instantly, kept forever, passed down eventually.
A LETTER FROM CECE
My darling,
Somewhere along the way, a generation of mothers stopped teaching their daughters about money. Not out of neglect — out of politeness. Money talk seemed crass. Surely the world had become fair.
The silence cost us. I have sat across the table from too many brilliant women who lost everything — not because they loved the wrong man, but because they signed before they looked. Because they merged before they measured. Because nobody handed them the rules.
Old money families never stopped handing them down. The asset in her own name. The questions to ask before the ring. The accounts that never merge. The way wealth whispers while insecurity performs. Their daughters arrive at adulthood fluent. Everyone else arrives ashamed to ask.
I wrote these two books to end the silence. They are the kitchen-table briefings, finally on paper.
— Cece
Frequently Asked Questions
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Beautifully designed PDF books, delivered to your email the moment you purchase. Read them on your phone, tablet, or computer — and print the workbook pages, which were designed to be filled in by hand.
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Very much. Before You Say Yes includes chapters on account structure, staying informed, and quiet readiness inside a marriage — and Old Money Rules is written for every season of a woman's life, married or not.
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No. These books are education and principle — the kitchen-table wisdom, written down. Where money meets paperwork, they will tell you plainly: spend the hour with a qualified professional in your own jurisdiction. It is the best money you will spend that year.
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Before You Say Yes is 21 pages including its checklist. Old Money Rules for Women is 30 pages — forty rules plus an eight-page working section with worksheets, the 90-Day Plan, and the Forty Rules Tracker. Short on purpose. Dense on purpose. Read in an evening, worked for a decade.
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They are licensed for your personal use. The exception Cece insists on: you may always read them aloud to your daughters.