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Planning a cheap wedding
Would you like to have a wonderful wedding without spending lots of money? Well, that's not an impossible thing. Just read this article and you will find out some tips for planning a cheap wedding.
First of all, you should ask for some recommendations from a coordinator. A wedding coordinator would have a lot of experience in this area and will be able to advise you for the best choices. Moreover, he will save your some precious time.
How to buy without spending lots of money
You should start looking for the wedding clothes a few months before the event. If you go shopping in the last few days before the wedding, you may be pushed to buy something expensive. Choose simple but elegant clothes and you may save hundreds or even thousands of dollars. If you can't find beautiful clothes that you can afford, you may rent them at lower costs, or you may search for discount ones. Also it is a good idea to learn how to do a well make-up without asking someone's help for planning a cheap wedding.
Another issue is that you can substantially reduce the cost for the decor. You can reduce a third of the cost by selecting seasonal flowers for bouquets. Under the flowers it is recommended to put round mirrors to expand their appearance on the tables.
Do not forget to reserve a good restaurant at least one month in advance, when planning a cheap wedding. If you cannot find a cheap restaurant, hold your wedding in Friday or Sunday. The fees are much cheaper than for a Saturday event.
If you have a friend qualified on photography, you may ask him to take the photos in order to save few hundred of dollars. The digital cameras technology has developed a lot recently and now anyone can take quality photos with an average camera. Also you can replace the band with a single DJ, and if that DJ is a friend of yours, again you can save some money.
Where to find cheap things
Planning a cheap wedding should start with finding a shop with cheap but good food for your guest. If your wedding is on the same date with an important event, you may find lots of shops doing huge discounts on food.
The printing of invitations can be expensive. A good idea to reduce this cost is to print them at home. You can use free software to design them on your PC, and then print them with your own printer. A printer can print super quality pictures.
As a conclusion, weddings are not always expensive, except in the cases where people want them to be. Planning a cheap wedding is not difficult and you can save some money for a honeymoon to remember, for a car or for a new home. There are many ways to reduce the costs and the only thing you have to do, is to use your imagination. I hope the above ideas of planning a cheap wedding will be of real help.
Alyssa Greenwald, Edward Wittenstein
Alyssa Blair Greenwald was married Saturday evening to Edward Martin Wittenstein at the Jumeirah Essex House hotel in Manhattan.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. English Proverb |