Do You Know How to Save Money on Your Wedding Dress?

By Jerry Leung

Your wedding dress must be the most important item in your big day because you will wear it and walk down the aisle. A perfect wedding dress will make your guest remember you and your wedding.

Although everyone knows that the wedding dress is so essential and you may want to find the most perfect one so that you can be the most beautiful bride on your big day, you may still want to save money on this item. At the end of the day it should not be a good idea to be in debt just because you want to have a perfect wedding. The followings are some ways you can think of in order to save money on your dress on your big day.

The best way of getting an inexpensive but elegant wedding dress is of course to borrow one. It will cost you nothing if you have a friend or relative who has gotten married and has a beautiful and elegant gown at home. It will also be excellent if you can wear your mother's dress on your big day. It does not only save you money but also possess a special meaning since it is your mother's gown.

If it is not quite possible for you to borrow a dress or your mother does not have one, you can consider renting one instead of buying one. The cost of renting a gown is certainly only a fraction of the cost of buying a new one. Thus it can save you money. It is also consider environmental friendly since you may probably create less waste if you rent a wedding dress.

Besides renting your wedding dress, another way of saving money on your gown is to buy a used one. It is especially perfect if you love vintage items. You may consider buying a vintage gown. In fact a vintage gown can be more stylish than a newly designed one.

If you decide to buy a new wedding dress anyway, you should try to approach shop from shop in order to get the best deal. The price of two similar dresses can be a lot different in two different shops. You may also do extensive research on the web to see if there are online shops which offer even better deals. However, you should bear in mind that you need to ask on every detail of the wedding dress if you are going to buy one online.

After the wedding, you will still have a chance to get some money back from your wedding dress. You can consider selling the used gown to the others such that you can get some money back. And this is just another way of saving money. By selling your gown you are in fact also helping the others who want to save money on the wedding dress. And on the other hand it helps to protect our earth since your gown can, and will be reused. However, you should try to keep the gown in good condition so that it can be sold at a good price.

How to have a Cheap Wedding

by Ella Demegillo

A wedding is probably the most expensive occasion you will ever have to plan for,3 billion dollars per year. Just because your budget cannot stretch to pay for all those expensive 'necessities', it doesn't mean that your wedding will be any less unique,carried out properly, the majority of guests will not even realize they have attended a 'cheap wedding'.BTW, I found a site about Madrid stag party in Spanish:despedidas soltero Madrid. However, sometimes all that is needed is some help with the planning to help lower that total,perhaps using the savings on something more worthwhile.

Cheap Bridal Gown

Fortunately there are several options available to help reduce this cost, including the option of a dress that has been worn before. As the wedding dress has probably only been worn once anyway and you can get a once expensive dress for half the price; consider buying an evening gown or cocktail dress from a department store perhaps even look into renting your dress for the day.

Planning the Reception

The most expensive area is the wedding reception but savings can be made here as well,with close to 200 people attending, the reception is the first place to make your cheap wedding more of a reality. Try and keep your guest list to a minimum: ask yourself if you really need to invite family members you haven't seen for years; instead, opt for a three course meal or a hot and cold buffet.

Other cost reductions can be made in where the wedding reception is held; it could take place in a friend's house or a local club where money could be saved on beverages if they are supplied directly.

The Wedding Photographer

The obvious choice is to shop around for the best rates, but look at hiring the photographer just for the service; ask family members and friends to take photos of the reception - most will be more than happy to do this. Some people save money by dispensing with the professional photographer entirely; using a friend or relation may sound strange at first but you can guarantee one of them is a keen amateur photographer.

Cheaper Contemporary Wedding Invitations

It is also easy to save money on your wedding by designing and printing all your own stationery; with a good computer program and a home printer it is amazing how professional the results are these days. With sophisticated customization tools you'll be able to enter your own text and preview it before you print; so as not to make any costly mistakes, all from the benefit of your probably underused PC.

The Wedding Flower Arrangements

Cost cutting measures can also be found in the area of flowers and their arrangement; these can actually be purchased in large quantities from wholesalers or even from your own garden if you have the capacity. If you have one of your friends make the wedding cake you can save some serious money; there probably won't be any need for five or six tiers either just as an alternative to the traditional fruit filling could be tried.

Wedding Cars and Limousines

Although it is nice to have a luxury limousine to transport you to the wedding, a friend's car can be just as special but at less cost; they will probably jump at the chance.

Money saved because it was a cheap wedding can be used productively; especially if the couple is planning to buy a house!

Tips On Planning A Cheap Wedding

by Diane crowford

Some might find this hard to believe, but planning a cheap wedding is quite easy to do. It's also great fun and can be really unique and creative too! So if you're planning a cheap wedding in the future, here are some great tips and ideas for you...

1. Cheap Wedding Locations. Planning a cheap wedding location is not impossible. In fact, you can have wedding ceremonies in a variety of places that are completely free. The local park is a great example. There's usually no cost to go to a public park, and planning a cheap wedding ceremony there doesn't usually require any permits or other fees either. Double check with your local city authorities just to be sure first of course.

The Beach is another free place to have a wedding ceremony, as is many churches for that matter. Other ideas include: Having your ceremony at a family member's home, or having the ceremony in your own back yard. If the wedding couple loves nature, it may be free or very inexpensive to have the wedding ceremony at a local zoo, nature reserve, or flower conservatory too.

2. Cheap Wedding Receptions. Planning a cheap wedding reception is not too difficult either. One way to keep the reception super cheap is to make it a pot luck meal. You can have the guests each bring their own dish, and this could be requested in place of having them buy you wedding presents if you'd like.

If you'd rather not ask guests to bring food for your wedding reception, then ask a few family members to get together and cook the food as a wedding gift to you.

Planning a cheap wedding reception should also involve choosing cheap or free locations for the reception too. Try to make the wedding reception co-incide with the ceremony in some way. If you plan to have your wedding ceremony in the gazebo at the park for instance, then plan for the reception to be a barbecue or picnic style event in that same park.

Another easy and cheap example of course, is if you have the wedding ceremony in your home. Then you can plan to have the reception in your home as well, or out in the backyard if the weather is nice. If you're planning a cheap wedding on the beach, an excellent reception idea is to have a beach party afterwards... bonfire and all.

3. Cheap Wedding Decorations. When planning a cheap wedding you'll of course need to keep the cost of decorations down as much as possible. You don't have to go without them completely though, you just need to improvise.

Instead of buying expensive flowers for instance, try decorating with balloons and streamers instead. Go to a local craft or fabric store and buy a few spools of pretty ribbon, then tie the balloons together with strips of the ribbon done up in a bow. Also tie the ribbons into bows themselves, then tape the ribbon bows around for decorations by themselves.

Another idea for creating cheap table decorations is to simply collect some pretty rocks. Wash them clean, then arrange them creatively on tables or other surfaces. You could even paint the rocks to match your desired wedding color theme.

Here's a great idea if you're planning a cheap wedding that will have an outdoor, picnic or barbecue style reception: buy pretty paper plates and napkins instead of using expensive china dishes.

As you can see with just these few ideas, planning a cheap wedding can actually be a lot of fun!

Have an Elegant But Cheap Wedding

By lin tong

The wedding industry is a billion dollar a year business with the average wedding costing the couple almost twenty thousand dollars. This will be the cost of your wedding if you plan to stick to designer dresses and expensive details in your wedding. However, if you are a person who is planning a cheap wedding on a budget there are some ideas that you can use.

One of the most expensive parts of the wedding is the reception as most venues will charge people per plate and depending on what you would like to serve to your guests for dinner each plate can be very expensive, some ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars per plate. Just image that you have invited two hundred people to your wedding and all have replied yes to your wedding and your dinners are going to cost you one hundred dollars a plate. This is an enormous expense that you can avoid if you are willing to have something different than a sit down catered reception. Another great way to save money is to lump everything to a single caterer. This means that the one caterer will provide the tables and chairs, even the tent if needed. There are some people who choose to cook their own food and have friends serve it but this is taking things a step further and you are giving yourself a great deal of work prior to your wedding when you are supposed to be relaxing and enjoying the moment.

If you are on a strict budget then you might want to forgo buying an expensive dress and you might want to consider renting one. There are a number of bridal stores that offer a large selection of second hand dresses that you can rent at a reduced price and the dress will be returned the day after the wedding. People often don like to go for this option as they feel that the dress has been worn too many times so that it isn theirs. If you do not want to rent a dress from a store you might consider borrowing a wedding dress from a friend. Some friends may even let you alter the dress in such a way so that you make it your own. A wedding dress is not something that a person wears everyday and often the dress is placed in the back of closet and never looked at again after the wedding day. There a number of ways that you can save money and not buying a brand new wedding dress is one of them.

There is a number of wedding supply stores that offer brides readymade wedding favours. However, what people don think about is that these favours can possibly be made at home for half of the price. For example if you are looking for a cheap inexpensive wedding favour you can fill up a bag with heresy kissing and type out some tags that simply say a bag full of kisses for the new Mr. And Mrs. These favours are great hit and do not cost a great deal of money to make. The possibilities are endless.

Save Money With Cheap Wedding Ideas

By ossie91y3

When you want to save money on your wedding there are many cheap wedding ideas that will still allow you to have an elegant wedding that won’t look cheap. You do have to have a sum of money in mind that you want to spend for the wedding because you don’t want to have to spend years paying for it or have to cancel your honeymoon plans because the wedding costs were higher than you anticipated. The clothing for the wedding is a major factor in determining the cost and since you only wear this once, why buy when you can rent for a very inexpensive cost? Most grooms rent the tuxedo, but you can also rent your wedding dress as well.

Bake your own wedding cake or have a friend do it for you. You can rent the various pans you need for the layers and freeze the cakes until need to thaw them for decorating. It is a lot cheaper to simply have a plain chocolate or white cake rather than a fruit cake and most people like the tastes of these simple cakes. Decorating the cake doesn’t have to be costly either. If you take the cake to a bakery to be decorated, this only involves the cost of the icing and the time, but you can do things more cheaply by icing the cake yourself first. The all the decorator has to do is add the special touches. Dollar stores also have cheap ornaments and flowers with which you can enhance the cake rather than having it professionally decorated.

Why don’t you have a pot luck reception? Many couples are now turning to this style of offering a meal at the reception instead of paying the expense of a caterer and a hot or cold meal. When you send out your invitations, you can ask the guests to bring along their favourite dishes. Although some will not like this idea you will have a wide range of foods to offer for the meal many more than you have with a catered meal.

Guests do not expect you to pay for all the drinks at the wedding. While you do have the wine on the table, this can be wine you made and bottled yourself by using a wine kit. If there is a cash bar, you can give the guests two free drinks, but nowadays guests normally accept that they will have to pay for all their drinks. In locations where there is a liquor licence, you may be permitted to bring alcoholic beverages onto the property and in this way each guest can bring their own drinks.

Instead of paying a high price for a photographer, ask the guests to give you the negatives of the photos they take. Since most people now use digital cameras, you can simply supply your email address and have all the photos emailed to you. Then you just buy the photo paper and print off the ones you like best. You can also have these enlarged at any photo store because they are not copyrighted.