I have been researching how people with a small budget making their wedding affordable and think these 10 little tips can be useful for people who have small budget.
Ten Tips for an affordable wedding:
1. Marry on a not popular time. When you marry on a monday it is a lot cheaper then marrying on a Friday or Saturday.
2. The season that you marry in. Did you know the most people marry in the summer or the winter? An autumn wedding or a winter wedding is a lot cheaper then a summer wedding and they can be so beautiful! Think back to the wedding of Miranda and Steve in Sex and the City in the gorgeous autumn garden. Another thought is a winter wedding in a big Forrest, snow on the threes, a beautiful sight. Often you can get great discounts on wedding cars, wedding locations, etc. in these seasons.
3.Buy an affordable wedding gown and beautify it yourself. The diva under the wedding dresses is of course the top, but they are very expensive. The average wedding dress costs around the one thousand pounds. Our tip: buy a cheap, simple wedding dress and give it a stunning look by wearing the perfect shoes, jewelry, haircut and make-up. Do you really have a low budget then you can always look for a fabulous gala dress or evening dress.
4.Save money on bridal flowers and bouquets. A bridal bouquet costs around 70 and 150 pounds! One beautiful flower in your hands is just as pretty. The bridal bouquet is a typical traditional thing. Nowadays a lot of people get rid of the bridal bouquet and use the money for the decoration of the wedding location.
5. The thank you gifts for your guest do not have to be very expensive. If you are a little bit of a creative person you can think of something that is fun and costs little money. The key is to make a personal gift. It can be a handwritten note with a own baked cookie, it is personal. Burn some cd's with your favorite songs and create the cd-inlay. Use your talent or use the talent of friends and you will see it doesn't have to cost a lot.
6. The wedding cake is one of the eye catchers on a wedding. The average cost of a wedding cake is around the 250 pounds. Wedding Cake makers never define how much it is for the whole cake but usually they define the costs per person. An average wedding cake costs 7 pounds a piece. The wedding cake maker usually haves a minimum take of 30 persons per wedding cake. Thirty persons, seven pounds a piece is 210 pounds. A fun way to make it a lot cheaper is to have a table full of cupcakes. An cute decorated cupcake, f.e. with someone names one it, costs 2 a 3 pounds a piece. Three pounds, thirty persons makes a total of 90 pounds, a good way to save money.
7. Save on the wedding rings. Buying a wedding ring is hopefully a one time business. Saving on a nice wedding ring is probably the last thing you want to save on. Nowadays there are a lot websites that offer wedding rings cheaper then most real stores ca. The websites do not have pay rent for their shop or something like that and you will see that back in the price of the wedding rings they offer online. You can save up to 20 % by buying your wedding ring online.
8. A wedding photographer is also a cut that most people don't want to make. It keeps the memory of your beautiful wedding alive. If you are really on a low budget this is a nice tip: buy a dozen Polaroid camera's in a budget store or online. You can let your wedding guests make photo's of your wedding. you will get a very personal photo collection of your wedding.
9. Save on wedding invitations. You or one of your talented friends can make beautiful wedding invitations in Adobe Photo shop or another design software. Do it yourself!
10. Do not invite everybody. If you don't invite every person you know. Not the mailman, the butcher, the friend of a friend of a friend, you can keep the wedding small, personal and private. A private wedding with only friends and family that mean a lot to you makes it very special. When you f.e. have 10 guests instead of 200 a wedding on Hawaii suddenly looks achievable.
I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck with your wedding planning.
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