Showing posts with label budget wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label budget wedding. Show all posts

Friday, February 29, 2008

FIND EASY WAYS OF REDUCING THE COST OF YOUR WEDDING

Most of us look forward to getting married for almost the whole of our lives preceding the event and therefore have almost every specific detail, starting from the dress to the flowers to the cutlery the music and even the menu etched out in our minds. Unfortunately, when the time comes to finally turn these dreams to reality, practicality checks in, knocks us on our heads and reminds us of exactly how many dollars we have in the bank account!

Unlike what it used to be in the good old days, the modern day parents have learnt to ease their way out of bearing the financial burden of their son’s or daughter’s wedding. The logic used in this case is quite infallible really, most of us wait to tie the knot long enough to bear children, teach them how to walk and start helping them with their math homework. So, since we don’t do our share therefore the potential grandparents don’t do theirs. So finally when it comes to our wedding we are left out in the cold, joining bits and pieces of our earnings to build up the most important day of our lives.

For all of us who are bogged down by this sudden astounding realization, or the ones who will get similarly bogged down in a not so distant future date, here is a list of the average costs that you will have to incur in order to get married. Once you have the groom (or the Bride, as the case maybe), which tends to be the most expensive of the purchases, you are sure to save up enough to have a glorious wedding ceremony.

First up, flowers. Believe it or not, at any average wedding ceremony flowers can cost anything around or even above $800! Yes yes I know what you are thinking, you are probably itching to remind me how they finally add to the grandeur and emotion of the whole ceremony, but cap your outburst because ultimately this will probably be the one area you can cut your expenditure down in. If your budget is tight try something creative, scan issues of bridal magazines or the net for ideas.

Photography/Videography also takes up a large amount of your budget. Based on the kind of mementos you would want to keep from your wedding day you can end up spending anywhere between $900- $2500. Even though you probably think it’s a good idea it is best to not try and cut down your costs here, cause these will after all be one of the only things you will have to really re-live your wedding at a later date, and if saving a few dollars means you will end up looking like a fat hag or be ill-lit in your own wedding photographs then there is no point being a complete Scrooge about it.

Now if you are having a wedding ceremony, you will have to send out those few essential invitations, announcements and then the thank you notes, so there is no getting around the few hundred dollars it will set you back by, but you might try. Coax a friend with neat handwriting to take this load of your shoulders, get her to write your invitations for you, and keep it simple, so as to trim down the overall costs.

Finally of course there is the music. No wedding is complete without good music setting the right mood for the celebrations. Set apart about $1500 to fulfill your musical requirements.
Further costs include the price for the site of the ceremony. This you may safely estimate at around $400. of course you will also have to arrange for means to get to the site itself, this should cost around $450, all together. If you want to show your appreciation for the attendants with a little token of love, set apart another 400 bucks. The rehearsal dinner, which you must have, will be around $1000, the reception anywhere between $5000-$8000.

Expect your super special wedding dress to cost at least 1000 bucks and even if the groom settles for a rented tuxedo there is no getting away from the neat $500 you will have to flash out for it. So all in all, everything put together, added and multiplied, you have a whopping $25,000 bill tagged clean with your plan to get married. If marriages are really made in heaven then the God’s sure have expensive taste! However this isn’t by any means the final word in planning your wedding cheap, there are of course thousands of other ways of cutting your expenditure as per your personal means and fancies, this is just one of the very many ways of going about it. Figure out what suits you, and have a great wedding.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

BEAUTIFUL WEDDING FLOWERS ON A MODEST BUDGET


There is one thing that everyone craves for, and that is called style. So many make claims of possessing style, but truly speaking few understand its essence. Style is not bought and sold in the market, and spending huge amounts of money does not always translate into fine taste. Style is something more complicated than that.

Talking of weddings and the flowers that must grace the wedding, style and money may not follow the same tune. But there is good news. Nowadays arranging of flowers is bending more towards minimalism. So it’s a lot less difficult to come up with an eye-catching interior design on reasonable finances. So what is the way of reducing the cost of flowers without compromising with style? Let me present you with some terrific ideas, like designing a motif of flowers for the wedding that at once easy on the pockets and speaks of style too.

Have an Intimate Bridal Party

If the list of invitees is kept to minimum, then the florist will have to design just that many boutonnieres and bouquets. This would result in quick savings that will not contradict your floral aspirations. And if there are too many close pals then think of giving them alternative important posts – like a ceremony reader.

Shrink the Guest List

You will have to adorn fewer isles at the ceremony if there are fewer seats to begin with. And lesser tables at the reception party of the wedding ceremony would indicate lesser floral decoration pieces to keep on them. The concept is this – that you will have fabulous arrangements – just not too many of them.

Go With the Season

Get a list of the flowers for that season in which your wedding is taking place. The flowers that bloom during the season are easier to get hold of and are seldom very expensive.

Keep It Simple Sista!

Irrespective of the season, there are a few kinds of flowers that would surely be costly to purchase. You can have a session with your florist to know your options. You can in fact make less costly flowers look as stunning as the expensive ones - pack together the same kind of flowers. If you have ever seen a bunch of daisies packed together, you will know what I am saying.

Consider Alternative Arrangements

You can also go in for the latest hot trend of the season – beautiful decorations with vegetables, fruits, or grasses. Go green, in other words. Another favorite idea is to scatter flower petals around votive candles. This would create a romantic effect without crippling you financially.

Choose a Naturally Beautiful Location

Call on Mother Nature for help, and who would ask for expensive designs for the wedding? If you plan to have your wedding during the beautiful season of spring in a garden, then no flower arrangement would be necessary at all. Similarly a beautiful church can do the décor trick for you because it would be splendid to look at by its own merit. Then again, during holidays many facilities are decorated anyways. Hence a December wedding might just give you breathtaking garlands and poinsettias without spending a single penny.
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Friday, February 15, 2008

A GUIDE TO WEDDING PLANNING SOFTWARE

Let’s face it – a wedding is nothing short of a most complex thing to plan. Planning for a wedding is not an easy thing to do – unless you decide to just pay a visit to the register office or make a scheme to run away with your chosen groom. But if you are game for a fairly big, conservative wedding then you would need to keep track of all the functions and ceremonies so that the wedding is done on time.

There are quite a few individuals that you will find now who have made it their profession to plan weddings for people. That is how they earn their bread and butter – every day. It is not always possible to hire a person to help you out with your marriage plans, but it is one of the best solutions ahead of a wedding. The rates of a professional planner of weddings could be as high as 10% of the cumulative cost of the marriage. Hence many couples would rather take the planning on themselves than rather spend so much on a planner. The best thing is that today you will get numerous softwares in the market that can help you out without the necessity of a wedding planner.

The first thing you would need to see in the software that provides guidelines for a wedding plan is a calendar. A calendar will not just be a feature with which you can check the dates – it’s more than that. The calendar that you will get with the software should help to notify you about important functions. Generally the notification would be accomplished with e-mail alarms.

Furthermore, if the cell phone that you carry delivers the service of text-messages, then you can also receive your email notifications on your cell phone itself. This is indeed a great boon of modern technology.

In a wedding planning software programme, you should also find a procedure of how to arrange all the different tasks because at the time of wedding there are so many important events happening together, that you must learn how to coordinate them all. After distributing all the invitations for the wedding, you should also be able to know without difficulty who has replied and who is still left.

Then again there will be many other tasks to attend to than just the main ceremony. The wedding reception would also demand many definite arrangements to which you must look into. A wedding reception requires proper arrangements for seating, and your software must give you the necessary guidelines. Then there are the gifts. Your family and friends would undoubtedly flourish you with many gifts and you would have to send out thank you notes to all of them. The wedding planning software should be able to accommodate your requirement.

Looking into the financial aspect, along with tracking and scheduling, is one of the most important parts of a wedding. It is true that complex stuff like Peach Tree or Quick Books would perhaps make things difficult and on the other hand you should have a firm control over your budgets so that you do not go overboard and after the wedding end up with empty hands.

A further benefit that you can derive from such software is that it features custom stationary that you can put to use at the time of your wedding. This is an added advantage since it would save a lot of money that you can put to use somewhere else. A software application that has this element would generally carry templates for guidance for designing invitations or any other item of stationary that you could perhaps need for the wedding.

A search engine like Google is also one of the most intelligent methods of finding out software for the planning of a wedding. Here you will come across numerous choices from free to least expensive web based wedding planning services to ready to use software like Smart Wedding that can work on your personal computer. You must know the relative benefits of each service – because free does not always translate into good, and also you should know what you want exactly and how the software can fulfill that need. There are so many of the wedding planning softwares that you would absolutely hit on the right one for you, then your wedding would be an enjoyable experience without much hassle, to look forward to.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Putting Your Memorable Journey Online

Once you send your wedding invitation letters, you might find many people are asking how did you meet each other, when did you meet, where did you meet, and other intriguing questions. At the beginning, telling all those flash back are fun. But when you are repeating them for more that 5 times, it becomes time consuming already.

That is why nowadays, many couple put their "journey to the wedding" online. This will inform whoever interested to read or view your journeys together until the wedding day. It could be a memorable site as well for you to keep for the rest of your life.

You might think that putting all those online is a difficult tasks. Start from choosing the right webhosting until develop the web itself. Do not worry. Nowadays, there are a lot of ready to make sites or blogs that you can easily create. You just need to follow the instructions given online... and within minutes your sites or blogs are online.

However, if you want to make it personal, you need to have your own domain and web host. You can compare the available web hosting choice there. You can input the search criteria for you to compare. Either monthly cost or by capacity of your host. If you are not sure how many spaces that you need, try to put all your images of your "journeys to wedding" on the same folder and see how much it consumes. This will roughly what you need in your web host.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Traditional Wedding Theme

As much as most couples want to budget their wedding, some couples can not avoid the fact that they should held additional wedding ceremony with traditional theme based on the traditional customs on where the couples from.

If you held additional traditional customs wedding, it is recommended to have them on the same day with your receptions. This will reduce the cost because you can negotiate with the venue owner to have the venue for the whole day for you. Aside from the venue, you can have the decorations for both occasions.

However, you have to make separate invitations and a break between two occasions. This break is important to clear up the room and give ample time for the guests to leave and have the cleaning services to clean the area for the next occasions. Break will give time as well for the couple to rest, freshen up, or change clothes if necessary.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Wedding Invitation Strategy to Cut Budget

Wedding invitation sounds simple and cheap. However, if you want a nice design and multiple by the number of guests that you would invite, the cost can be skyrocketed. below are some tips to cut your budget of your wedding invitation without sacrificing the design that you wanted.
1. Group your guests. You could group your guest especially your friends to have 1 wedding invitations for some of your friends. For example: 5 of your office friends will be listed in 1 wedding invitation. Your friend will understand this and will still appreciate your invitations.
2. Scan and send through emails. With the technologies nowadays and mean of communications through emails. Some people often prefer some communications through emails where they can directly schedule their tasks or schedules in their laptops. Scanning your wedding invitations will not lose the whole look and design of your wedding invitations. Try to identify your wedding guest lists that are techie or gadgets persons. You can send the scanned wedding invitation by emails.
With those two tips above, you can reduce the wedding invitations that you should send physically. Thus, it will reduce your budget for your wedding.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Pre-Wedding Pictures. Important? YES!

For those of you that have look around for wedding photographers, you might notice that the package often include pre-wedding pictures. If not, better to ask the photographer to include it as well in the price. Do not underestimate your pre-wedding picture because it can save you some money, time, and memorable shots!

Save some money? How? Pre-wedding picture can be your wedding decorations in your chosen wedding venue. It will be better if you have the pictures that could depict the story on how both of you met each other. If you do not have the old pictures, you can recreate them with the help of you wedding photographers. These pictures could be put in the entrance of your wedding venue and will surely attract the attention of the your wedding guest to give a little bit introductions about your love journey.

Saving time and having memorable shots because you will have a picture as a couple in your relaxed time prior to your wedding day. I have seen a lot of wedding picture in the wedding day have bad results because the couple have tired and some of the make-ups have little bit smeared because of tears, sweats, or even kisses on the chick with wedding guests.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Pay attention of discounted Wedding Place / Venue

With regards to my previous post entitled "Choosing a wedding venue – Categorized into 3 wedding venues", I would like to add that some wedding venues offer discounted for certain memberships. This kind of permanent discounts often do not mentioned when you inquiry about the venue. Sales people usually only remember of the on-going promotion or discounts.

This happened to my friend just recently when he wanted to book a wedding venue. The sales man kept on telling about the on-going promotion that my friend can avail if the wedding food caterer is coming from their partner's company. After a careful read on the brochure, my friend found out that a member of retired government military officials could obtain as much as 20% discount on the published rate. My friend confirmed it to the the sales man, and he seconded the motioned. The sales man said that he usually did not speak about this discounts because his potential clients were seldom a retired government military official.

Having this in mind, my friend went home and contacted his relative who is a retired government military official to do a booking. Well, it saved him 20% of his wedding budget. Good deal! That is why when you try to book your wedding place, try to ask all the discounts available. Read their brochures carefully to detect any discounts that the sales man / woman might miss.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Choosing a wedding venue – Categorized into 3 wedding venues

Wedding venue in general can be categorized into 3, namely:

1. OWN venues. This is where the couple will host the wedding on the places that no need to pay for the venue. A common example is parents’ or relatives’ house. By default, these kinds of venues can save up your budget for wedding. Just take note if the venue can hold enough space for your wedding guests.

2. PUBLIC venues. Public parks, gardens, or beaches are considered public venue. In most countries, this could be a “budget” solution for wedding venues. However, you need to check if permits or licenses are required before holding your wedding in public places. Set a side enough budget to process the permits to your local government. Aside from its budget venue, public venue is a great place to express yourself in unconfined atmosphere of a wedding.

3. RENTAL BASIS venues. This type is a common choice of the couple because it offers privacy and environment that the couple can choose from. There are a lot of places like auditoriums, club houses, country clubs, conference centers, convention centers, hotels, houses of worship, mansions, museums, resorts, hall, stadiums, yachts or cruise ships, and many more of places that you can thing of. Using rental basis allows you to think freely about the wedding theme that you want to apply on the wedding venues. Cost of wedding venues could be vary depending on the size and popularity. Some are even already fully booked for weekends for the whole year ahead.

Based on the categories above, couple should sit together to decide the wedding venues based on your wedding budget and preference. A common misperception is that to have OWN venue is always cheaper in term of total costs for the whole wedding costs. It is NOT always true. Wedding venue cost is only one of the costs of wedding budget, you might get a free venue but you need to order or prepare yourself for the food and decorations. Some RENTAL BASIS venues are often offering package for venue, food, and decorations so that you could save more for the whole cost of the weddings.

To avoid any misleading, try to make a list of your wedding costs in details. Compare each of the costs if certain wedding venue is selected. The most important is try to make your wedding planning as fun activities. For “soon to be” brides, if making a notes in a colorful note are fun, please do so. Do not stress out to much with the preparations. In the end, the wedding should be a joyful and memorable event of your life.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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Friday, October 26, 2007

Cut Cost on Wedding Jewelry

When you think about jewelry, A beautiful girl comes in your mind which is nicely dressed with Gold, Diamond and other costly ornaments, so the word jewelry is mainly associated with girls, But now as the time is changing we can see many of the guys also using that stuff, For example Nose pin, diamond ear rings, Bracelet and many more are very common in boys too. But on a occasion like wedding the jewelry is most important part for both a boy and a girl (mainly for the girls), and girls spent a lot of money on jewelry for this occasion.

How to plan a wedding with Jewelry??
So when we are planning a wedding and especially with a tight budget, We have lots of ways to cut our costs and get maximum output. We all know about artificial jewelry it has everything like the original one, and no one can figure it out easily, and there are very rare people who know much about the original and artificial jewelry, so it will be a great substitute of costly metals. Suppose necklace, ear rings and bangles these are the main part of a girl’s ornament and we can easily get artificial jewelry of this type.

Some Important Things
As I wrote above we can easily get artificial jewelry, but there are few things which we can not use the artificial, one most important thing is Wedding Ring. We can not take a artificial ring for such a big occasion, But if your budget is tight we can not go to a 20 carat diamond ring as well. The wise advice will be a nice gold ring with a small diamond which will be golden memory for the whole life.
The second good thing about this not expensive ring can be, if by mistake you lost that ring, it will not hurt you much. But no doubt losing such a wonderful gift is a bad shock to your heart.

So choosing the right jewelry for right occasion is a good planning for the wedding, and don’t follow the rich person for the jewelry, who had million dolar income. Just live in your budget and enjoy a debt free wedding life.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Overbudget Wedding

No matter how good you plan the budget wedding, there are some cases that the unexpected expenses occur in the last minutes of your wedding planning. This can be very inconvenient, especially when you are running of out cash and credit limit.

Borrowing money from families or friends could be embarrassing since you only need small amount of cash to cover some expenses that you are sure you can pay it back on your next payroll. As an alternative, you can try cash advance than you can get online. They can help you with short term and small loans. The process is fast and you can do it online without leaving the comfort of your home. There are several sites that you can compare and select to your needs in payday loans.

Some tips to choose the online payday lender:
1. The site should be easily understood so that you know all the terms and conditions.
2. Minimum or no charge for processing the application.
3. There should be a privacy policy mentioned by the site.
4. Check the "contact us" page and make sure that their informations are complete.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

What's the budget menu for Wedding Food?


Wedding is such an occasion, where you invite all your very close friends and relatives and they all need a special attention. It is your duty to take care of their food and the entertainment when attending you wedding. The main thing which comes to our mind is the good food and some entertainment for these relatives and friends.

Good food is always the way to keep you friends and relatives happy on your wedding, but good food is not necessarily means the expensive food. For example you can serve the lobster and steaks which are most expensive dishes in the world, and also can present chicken, fish and other simple meat to make your relatives happy and it depends upon a good chef to make a fish as tasty as lobster. So it will be great to appoint one good chef for your function rather spending a lot on the expensive food.

Entertainment is very important part on the wedding as well, because you invite some people who don’t know any one else in the wedding other then you and you can not give all your time to only those persons. So it is better to play some music or like that for entertaining those people. A recorded music can be best choice at such time as live bands take too much money. So when you enjoying music you need whiskey or wine too to serve. So choose only those brands which are cheap because after two or three drinks every whisky becomes same.

Food and entertainment have done, but another important aspect is the Venue for the wedding. So choose only such venue which can fit to your gathering. Not a big one or not to small, and important thing is to choose the venue which is easily reachable, well maintained and comes under your budget.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Planning a Wedding Gown Design Shop

My friends here (Sha and Soun) are planning to have their own wedding gown design shop. Well, It looks pretty promising because they really enthusiastic about this idea. The motto is what I like because they planned to have the wedding dress design that are affordable.

The idea came because most of the womens today are renting their wedding dress to save money. Women does not want to spend money to buy the wedding dress that is most likely will be only worn once. This kind of renting wedding gown was bugling Sha's mind. She was saying that the wedding gown is supposed to be a memorable things that women should keep for the rest of her life as a beautiful memory. And having a nice and beautiful wedding gown is not supposed to be expensive. It is only the designer that making it expensive because the designers know that most women are willing to spend much money on the wedding day.

Because all of these, Sha and Soun are now preparing their own wedding design shop to make the wedding gown affordable for most women to buy it. Not to rent it. They are now in planning stage where the they have looked around for the materials that are good quality and affordable.

Well, I wish you a good luck and I am hoping to hear a successful stories in a near future.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Unique Wedding Invitation in a Bottle


I am sure that you have watched a movie of "Message in a Bottle" staring Kevin Costner during 1999. The movie is so romantic that people bring back the trend of giving message in a bottle. This kind of romantic messages is what inspiring the company to release a unique wedding invitations in a bottle. The price is so competitive with many options (glass, plastic, or wine bottle)that it could be cheaper than the ordinary wedding invitations.

It serves the purpose of wedding invitation as well as personalized gifts for your wedding guests. Thus, you might cut your wedding budget even more. You can select the message from a huge collection of messages by category. However, I suggest you to write your own message to make it more personalized.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Think Twice on Your Wedding Photography and Decoration

Wedding means when two souls meet each other, so every person who marry to His/Her soul mate wants to keep those memories forever. The best way to keep those memories for your whole life is through pictures and movies, and you can remember these days with those pictures and movies anytime. But spending more then enough on this thing is simple useless. If you have few pictures of your wedding you can watch those with your partner anytime and it will give you a pleasure to watch those pictures, but if you have some big albums you even wont try to pick those, and in this way you can not enjoy it, because in this fast moving life no one has that much time to watch big albums or 7-8 hours movies.

Everyone likes to spend some time with his/her partner and enjoy some light moments with 20-30 pictures. I am not saying to go only for 20-30 pictures, but go only for that much which you can easily watch in your spare time and enjoy that. If you watch the big albums only thing which will come to your mind is, “why did I spend that much on these pictures?” So you can not enjoy those things. It is better to plan those things in advance.

Secondly as I wrote it is a great occasion for the couple who is going to marry, they would like to make it even wonderful with their friends and they spend a lot on the decoration of venue with flowers, presentation of food and crackers in the sky. Most of this means just throwing your valuable money in the dust bin. People hardly take a look on the wedding decoration, no one care about that after 10 minutes or so, so go for the cheap flowers, if possible ribbons, avoid crackers as this will give you joy for just few seconds and it also pollute our environment, do not go for big lighting decoration as it is nothing more then the use of electricity and a heavy bill.

Now a days weddings become the good outing for every one and as most of the people are professionals and everyone want to spend the time with their friends and want to talk about new ideas of business even on the weddings. So there is no use to spend a lot for those people, who came here to discuss matters, not enjoy the wedding.

Monday, October 1, 2007

How to cut budget on Wedding Gown


A dream dress for every Woman’s life is Wedding Gown. Everyone wants to look different on her wedding from the other people. She deserves that look on that special eve. There are lots and lots of companies who are working on Wedding dresses and couples are spending big budget on these dresses. But for an average couple, it is not good to spend big bucks for just one appearance. Always choose a best price dress for your wedding.

A wedding Gown is no doubt represent your personality to the others. The dress you wear on that big occasion should be such that everyone should praise it, but it never means it should be expensive. For example you can buy a Gown from a big brand for 5000$ and same type of Gown from a small brand for just 1000$. No one is looking on the brand of the Gown they look if it suits to you and the occasion.

We all know that in World, there are lots of communities and each have their traditions and ways to celebrate wedding and they all use different type of dresses on such occasion. But they all do not spend too much on the wedding Gown. But it does not mean you don’t go for high brands. It all depends upon your resources and budget. If your budget allow then you can go for any range but most people in the world have that much money, so planning a wedding is good thing. And some of the small things like Gown and other things make a huge difference in your final planning.

Now the time is changing and I know many of the people deals in rental gown, that is the best way I think, You have to pay only 5 or 10% of the actual cost of the Gown and you can get a good one on rent as these are such thing which you can not wear repeatedly, and spending a huge budget for one day is not a good thinking. Again I want to say that it is only for the people who are planning their wedding if you don’t look for budget then there is no limit for you.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Having a Tight Budget for Your Wedding?


I am sure that you want to have a memorable day in your wedding. But to be practical, you want it on the tight budget right? You want to spare the money on your house down payment? Don't worry, there are a lot of things you can do to have a budget wedding on the tight budget.

To begin with, you can make a list of services that you can get it for free. List down all your family member of friends that are having a special skills to help you in the preparation of your wedding. A wedding coordinator, photographer, caterers, or emcee for example. Most of the time, families or friends can do better because they know the people. Your photographer friend knows who are you closed with and will spend time to take their pictures as well. Your Emcee fiend knows about your personal life and can make your wedding more personal. Things to remember is not to push the limit over their skill. If his/her skills in photographer is just average, better not to. You do not want to ruin your relationships just because you are not satisfy with his/her work, don't you?

Wedding decorations is one part that you can cut costs as well. You can search over the internet of the pictures of wedding decorations to start with. Blend your ideas with friend and family to get better idea of your personalized wedding decorations. Put in mind to have the flowers and/or decorations that are in season for the time of your wedding. This will cut your cost tremendously.

Budget wedding always comes with good planning. Always planning ahead of time to find more deals and lower prices from different vendors. Make sure you consult with your loved one when doing the planning. Just to avoid any misunderstandings. Try to make your preparations as fun as possible. Invite your friend and family in the process, they will surely help you a lot with the preparations. You will never imagine how you can cut cost for your budget wedding.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Wedding Crafts Ideas for Saving Money

Weddings are a joyous occasion but can get expensive in a hurry. With wedding crafts you can insert a personal touch and hold the price down as well. Here are a few ideas for wedding crafts to add sparkle and creativity to your big day.

It is not that hard to create your own wedding veil. To make this wedding craft, you will need a length of bridal illusion in the desired length. You will also need a comb to attach it to your hair and a hat or headpiece to cover the comb. Sew large running stitches about an inch from the end of the illusion and gather it tightly. Now sew the veil to the comb. Top with hat or headpiece. As an alternative, you can decorate a wide-brimmed straw hat with silk flowers, ribbon, and pearls.

The bouquets and floral arrangements can also be personally crafted. For a simple outdoor wedding, consider wild flowers. They are free and have a charm all their own. Bouquets can be arranged in large clear vases, with a bow tied elegantly around.

Favors for the guests are particularly appropriate wedding crafts. Refrigerator magnets are a simple and well-received favor. A really nice idea is to make a magnetic picture frame and include a picture of the couple. You could cut a frame out of craft foam in one of the wedding colors, arrange over the photo, and glue all onto a cardboard backing. Place self-adhesive magnet tape on the back of the cardboard. Decorate the front of the frame with foil heart stickers and a monogram of the couple's last name.

Bows for the ends of the pews or rows make simple wedding crafts. Wide velvet ribbons are nice for fall and winter weddings, while satin is more appropriate for spring and summer weddings. Loop some flat lace in with the ribbons. In the center of the completed bow, attach some silk flowers and pearl sprays with a hot glue gun.

Perhaps you'd like to try your hand at decorating your own cake. Check the craft section of the department store for pans and gadgets of all types to help you create a cake to remember. Do remember, though, that it takes a steady hand. Be sure to practice before starting on the real cake.

Preparing for a wedding can be expensive, but with wedding crafts, you can take some of the sting out. Plan early, however, because it will take a little while to make favors for everyone and all the other little details you will want to take care of. Maybe creating wedding crafts will even relieve some of those wedding jitters. In any event, crafting your own wedding items is a way to have a personal, beautiful, and less expensive wedding.