Top 7 Cheap Wedding Ideas
Cheap wedding ideas can build up and seriously reduce your overall wedding bill. Wouldn't that be nice?
There is nothing more special than a beautiful wedding. Except perhaps, a cheap, beautiful wedding. Below are the Top 7 cheap wedding ideas.
1. Start planning early
Even though we hear this about everything in our lives, it is especially important with weddings. You have the greatest chance of achieving the best price for things if you start early. Should you wait for a confirmed wedding date? No. Every little bit of planning you do now will save you money in the long run. This means getting out and interviewing reception venues, photographers and everything else. Interviewing early and getting price lists gives you the best chance of securing a good price later.
2. Make your own wedding invitations
Making your own invitations will save a truckload of money. All you need is some silver card, some semi transparent paper (with a nice design) that can be printed on, some ribbon and a hole punch. For perfect edges, when you are reducing the size of the invitations, a guillotine is useful.
Check wedding invitation samples on the web and word an invitation that you like. Print it onto the semi transparent paper. Guillotine the paper to the perfect size and make the silver card about half an inch wider. Use the hole punch and ribbon and attach the card on paper with a nice bow.
This not only saves money, it's a lot of fun too.
3. Attend wedding trade shows
Most exhibitors at these trade shows will have discounted prices for attendees as a way to drum up business. Attending as many shows as possible gives you a great chance to secure a bargain priced photographer.
4. Make your own favors
Stop spending thousands on those boring wedding favors. Go out to the local stationary store and purchase some small foldable boxes (with a pattern or color to match your wedding invitations). Purchase some good quality chocolates. Package the chocolates into the foldable boxes for your guests.
5. Avoid batch booking
Avoid going to a wedding planner or similar service and booking everything at once. Even if these services look cheap you will pay somewhere along the line. Do everything yourself, save money and have fun.
6. Check the local classifieds
Check out DJs or bands in the local papers. Sometimes the best bands and DJs are the ones that cannot afford to advertise in the glossy wedding magazines. Remember, you can always ask for a demonstration performance first.
7. Arrange a honeymoon gift registry
One of the most expensive parts of a wedding is the honeymoon. One of the most boring presents you can receive is something for the kitchen. So, prior to sending your invitations, decide where you would like to go on your honeymoon and arrange a bridal registry at the travel agency. Your guests can now contribute to something you will really enjoy.
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