We got married last September and I am glad wedding planning is over. Being a former wedding videographer, I have been to soooo many weddings and got great ideas for our wedding. We set a pretty realistic budget and figured out what was really important to us. With the things low on our priority list, we shopped for deals. Here are some quick ideas. I will expand on each section soon.
Guest List - We had a small guest list, about 140 guests, which saved us a lot of money and gave us more options.
Invitations - We bought simple white, blank invitations at Target and printed them ourselves on the computer. This do-it-yourself approached costed us only $70 vs. $330 on the invitations we would have ordered through Costco, saving us $260.
Wedding Dress - I went to a small boutique which offered wedding dresses for under $1000, which is relatively inexpensive compared to $2000 and up designer dresses. They had a small selection of maybe 20 dresses? But all the dresses were beautiful and elegant looking. And I found "the one" there. They weren't pushy salesepeople but were very helpful.
Flowers - We didn't have to spend as much on flowers to decorate our venue because our reception location was a restaurant right on the water with a spectacular view.
Cake - We went to a bakery that specialized in wedding cakes. We got a smaller display cake that could feed 90 guests and got more inexpensive sheet cakes to cover the rest of our guest list. FYI: The display cake costs more per slice than sheet cakes. And we stuck to one flavor because if you get more than one flavor, guests may take more than one slice of cake and you can end up without enough cake. Also, the bakery told us that 20% of guests do not eat cake. But we ordered enough to feed all guests anyway. To cut costs, we chose a simple plain, white design and decorated the cake with fresh flowers and a brown ribbon at the base of each tier.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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