Economic Wedding Ideas

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• 1 Bill // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:37 am

  Cater it yourself. Use a public park. Use friends as photographers. Ask for money instead of gifts.

  Pretty much figure out how to do the big ticket items yourself.

• 2 babygirl060794 // Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22 pm

  Ask your Friend and see if you can use her home or your familys home

• 3 mo_jokes2 // Jan 21, 2009 at 7:09 pm

  Simple only invite people close to you to a wedding from my expeirnce small weddings are alot nicer.

• 4 carrollholly@sbcglobal.net // Jan 23, 2009 at 6:58 am

  courthouse wedding 40 dollars….Motel six 35.00 dollars…Seeing each other ***** priceless

• 5 Matthew Fitzgerald // Jan 25, 2009 at 11:04 pm

  Go around shops finding the cheapest dress you possibly can that looks gourgous. You need to get the blance between quality and price. But there may be bargins out there. For example a wedding car, instead of hiring one, a friends of yours may have an old classic car that could be used for the wedding. If you do manage to hold a wedding party, Tesco Value food may be the cheapest option such as small pizzas for only 30P. If you need a wedding cake see if your friends can bake one for you or make it yourself this may save you some more. If you need a place to get married shop around for the cheapest and stick to that.

• 6 amanda6500 // Jan 26, 2009 at 4:26 am

  You can often reserve space in public parks or beaches (depending on where you live) for a small amount of money. Nice outdoor weddings are often less expensive than inddor ones. You could make a lot of the food yourself, or have friends help make a few dishes. Have disposable cameras at all of the tables for pictures, and have a friend or family member take a few posed ones.
  If you go to a florist, save money by NOT telling her they’re for a wedding, and use flowers that are in season to save even more. Make your own favors, and have a friend act as you DJ, or if you have an ipod, set it in a bose docking station and play music through that with your ipod on shuffle!
  Be creative and you will be surrised how much money you cn save!

• 7 kdbowlin2000 // Jan 26, 2009 at 6:22 pm

  Catering yourself is a great idea, invitations can be homemade from your computer, just invest in nice paper. Flowers can be from someone’s garden, and I think the answer before me is pretty good, figure out how to do most things yourself. Try crafting bows, and visit a craft store. It will be alot of hard work, but with friends and family pitching in, it will be that much more special. Also, the reception can be BYOB. Have fun.

• 8 friendlysummer // Jan 27, 2009 at 4:08 pm

  My husband and I recently married and had a strict budget. Here’s what we did: We made our own invitations from a kit we bought at Walmart for $25 that turned out beautiful,we got married at a chapel that did all of the services including photography (charleston chapel for weddings charleston,SC) there are alot of chapels like these around USA, had our reception at a restaraunt,got a simple cake,got married on our honeymoon,and had his family take pictures at the reception instead of hiring a photographer. Good luck!

• 9 browndog // Jan 29, 2009 at 5:03 pm

  Have a Sunday or weekday wedding. Most halls are cheaper if you don’t use it on a Saturday (the most popular day).

  Don’t serve alcohol at the reception. This will reduce the cost significantly.

  And of course… shop around. Find the best deals for everything from the invitations to the caterer.

• 10 Just--me // Feb 1, 2009 at 1:10 am

  I can totally relate aside from the fact that I am a full time mom and he works 2 jobs . Okay so lookon e-bay you can find sooooo many things for your wedding on there also go to this website
  Sign up for the newsletter omg it is fullll of helpful hints I didnt buy the book but she e-mails me like 3-5 times a week and it is sooo helpful Good luck and congrats

• 11 babygirl_16_29488 // Feb 3, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  go to and look for the wedding planning worksheets! youll see what you need and dont need and it makes it very easy!

• 12 ShibaGirl // Feb 3, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  Aside from the great tips that others have offered already, try checking out vendors of different ethnicities. When my husband and I got married, we found some Chinese wedding vendors (the wedding vendors were Chinese, not the weddings they served :)) who offered beautiful flowers, cakes, dresses, photography at literally a fraction of traditional vendors. We were so pleased with the service and products, and with the price tag!

• 13 Leighduh // Feb 5, 2009 at 3:40 am

  You could keep it exclusive to close family and friends.

  Some cities have very elegant party halls that they rent out to their residents. If you don’t live there, a friend might be able to help you out. Buffet receptions or family-style dinners are often more cost effective than formal sit-down dinners.

  A friend of mine had her reception catered by a friend who wanted to get into the catering business. A bit risky. But she had a Plan B which was to have it catered by a Mom-and-Pop Italian store that catered lunches for her office.

  One of my co-workers had a small wedding around Christmas and used poinsettias as floral decorations for the ceremony and centerpieces at the reception. And her bridesmaids carried white taper candles decorated with ribbons instead of bouquets.

  And maybe it’s a bit tacky but a cash bar instead of an open bar.

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