Desperately needing tips on planning a cheap wedding!?
January 12, 2009 by myunique
Filed under Plan A Cheap Wedding
Any tips would be most welcome. Also if anyone has stories about how they planned their weddings I'd like to hear. My parents aren't going to be able to pay for it like a lot of people do so we will have to foot the bill ourselves and want something small and inexpensive.
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I have planned 3 very cheap weddings that turned out wonderful.
Go for silk flowers and do the boquettes yourself. Its amazing what you can do with ribbons that will make flowers look great. THey are really easy to design.
I sew dresses for fun, and I know that theyre other people out there that do it cheap and good. Ask around, a friend of yours might have a grandmother/mother that would love to make a few extra dollars to make the dresses (I would not offer less than $10 an hour for this route). Or buy a used dress, and have the bridesmaids buy their own dresses (this is acceptible).
Do you know anyone who decorates cakes? Go to the craft shop and find out when their Wilton classes are and then ask a student if they will make your cake. You will get a really pretty cake for a cheap price (students won't charge that much cause they are looking for pictures for their portfolios).
You can make invitations on your home computer for the cost of ink and paper. You don't have to include a rsvp card if you don't want to. It is now considered 'ok' to have them reply to an email account (but it is poor manners to email wedding invites).
Music is a cd and a friend to push play. Or if you have family that can play an insturment, ask them to perform at your wedding. I'm sure that you can dig out a keroke fan that would love to sing infront of guests for you.
For the dinner… Do a desert buffett. Have the reception 1.5 hours after the cermony and tell guests that you will be serving desert at this location. Dinner isn't a MUST at receptions. Also if you MUST have a bar, do a CASH bar, an open bar can cost you up to the thousands depending on your friends.
For a DJ you have a friend that is a music geek and can spin his own CDs for you (doesn't everyone have a friend that has so much music and stereo stuff that they should be a DJ?)… And have your friends make you CDs of their favorite music so that you will have a nice veritity for everyone.
Table decoretions can be as simple as a floating candle and streamers in your wedding colors.
I once did a wedding for 500 for less than $4500… so it can be done