Comments on: What are some tips for saving some money while planning a wedding?

By: DiscountDiva

DiscountDiva — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:36:14 +0000

First, save your change. It really adds up fast to buy the little extras that you will inevitably forget about. Plus, it doesn’t hurt as much!

Second, use as many coupons as you can find. If you purchase an Entertainment Book in your area, you will find tons of coupons for flowers, dining (think rehearsal dinner, bridal shower) and travel. You can also get some great deals just mentioning that you are the bride (especially when travelling).

Most importantly, develop a budget and stick to it! There are many Web sites that will help you in doing so, such as.

By: Reesy_Cup

Reesy_Cup — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:29:17 +0000

Not sure if you’ve already planned your wedding or not, but here are a few more really inexpensive tips I have learned after planning many weddings. For cake, get a cake from a place like costco in your wedding colors to have in the back, then hire a cake decorator to decorate an elaberate cake made of foam (saves hundreds of doallrs), only the part you and your groom will cut should be real. What’s funny is that everyone complimented the cake all night. Second get disposable cameras for the tables on ebay. I got them as cheap as $2.00 a camera. For party favors we made CD’s or pencils from Oriental Trader (personalized)and added bells to the erasers with pins and people used those instead of throwing rice (they rang the jingle bells). For invitations for my brothers wedding we bought vellum paper printed the date info on the outside (went to an invitation website for wording) and then took a picture of them glued to cardstock and placed the vellum on top tied with a ribbon (we actually took a picture of little kids in wedding clothes and transposed their faces as children on them. We used silk flowers from a outlet store that looked great and were only $250 to decorate everything. Tons of compliments. Also if you find a photographer or videographer outside of the big city they are so much cheaper. As far as centerpieces my sister-in-law used her vows and put them on pretty card stock and put fake petals around them. There $15,000 wedding cost them $5,000, no joke.

By: Jenny Jenny

Jenny Jenny — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:35:00 +0000

Ebay. I found brand new collections online (guest book, flower girl basket, ring pillow, etc) Sales. I found the perfect table cloths and matching utinsels on sale at the party store. Doing alot of it yourself. Tulle and ribbon from the craft store. And things like bubbles and votive candles from the dollar store. I am not rich. That is how I am getting through mine. And SAVE! If it’s something I can’t buy right away or it’s not on sale, I work towards it, then move on to the next item. Also my fiancee and I have been planning much further ahead for that exact reason. We set the date and now buy pieces at a time. So it doesn’t feel like such a dent in our pocketbook. There is lots of research you can do online.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:27:07 +0000

You’re a few tips to save money on wedding preparation.

1. Plan ahead of time. Time is gold, so they say. So if you are lacking time you tend to spend more. This is especially true when you are preparing for a big event area as the wedding date draws closer, you will find yourself spending more than you are waiting to just to be able to get things accomplished in time.

This can be avoided if you start preparations earlier. The earlier, the better. This gives you more time to prepare and make sure things are all right. If you are lacking time, you will find yourself overpaying just to have workers rush to complete your needs. Unfortunately, rushed jobs usually are of inferior quality.

2. Do it yourself. While not all things are applicable here, you can still save a lot from doing some of the decorating and preparations yourself. This goes for wedding gifts, decorations, handicrafts, and other stuff that can be done at your own home.

Materials you will need for the wedding traditions can be handcrafted by you and your friends in your spare time. This is why you will also need to plan ahead of time so that they have ample opportunity to do some of the stuff you need for the wedding yourself.

3. Employ the help of your friends. Friends are there through thick and thin-and during weddings too. If your friends can lend some manpower to help you with your wedding preparations, that would be a big boost to your efforts to save money.

This is especially true if you have friends who are skilled in some of the areas critical to weddings-areas such as design, catering, and dressmaking. If they are able to give you their help for free, or for a reduced cost, that would constitute a big savings.

4. Expensive isn’t necessarily better. When purchasing materials for your wedding, make sure that you keep in mind that expensive isn’t necessarily better. They are generic materials you can purchase that are as good as or even better than branded ones. So do a little shopping before purchasing your materials. You could very well find some that would do the trick without denting your wallet.

Hope that helps and have a wonderful day!

Take care

Paul

By: Red

Red — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:21:41 +0000

Think do I really need this when going over things, make things yourself, it depends on how many people you want there, big is more $ while few is less $ (duh)

By: sannalee

sannalee — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:13:27 +0000

bla bla bla make this make that yourself, have your friend do this have your friends do that, unless you have friends who are creative enough to do things for a small price or free then you cant have a cheap wedding, the best advice is shop around untill you have exhausted every shop and found the best price

By: butterflybaps

butterflybaps — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:42:46 +0000

bring in house caters, small local hotels that offer catering, do it yourself flowers, and decorting.

By: spen29

spen29 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:36:29 +0000

Look at the “dollar” stores for vases, mirrors for tables, candle holders, bowls, those sorts of things. Shop the internet for favors, napkins, even invites. Try doing some of the things yourself (like the flowers) Ask around the families to see if anyone knows someone for the photography(very expensive!!), and cake.

By: kittykat34

kittykat34 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:19:17 +0000

well, there are plenty of websites, but I suggest some of the same things, make your own favors, dont have a huge reception, you dont have to invite EVERYONE that you ever knew in your life.

By: 1wiseguy

1wiseguy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:55:04 +0000

You can have a nice wedding w/o spending alot of $$$$$ if you cut out alot of the frills (sit down dinner ,big and elaborate cake, live band ,etc. ) better yet, ELOPE! and put the $$$ you saved by not having the wedding to make a down payment on a house ,save yourselves the stress of planning,etc. Get the the picture!!!!!!