Get Married for Less; How to Have a Budget Wedding Day
How to have your dream wedding on a budget; flowers, cars, venue, honeymoon, dresses and even the date you choose can all cost you less. Be money conscious and you’ll save yourself a post-wedding headache.
Your Wedding Day will undoubtedly be a crowning moment in your life, but unless you’re a money-savvy bride, your lasting thoughts of your big day could be less about the dress and more about that huge loan you took out to pay for it all. Let’s face it…Who wants to wake up the morning after and think, ‘I can’t believe I spent all that and now it’s over…except for the fifteen years I’ve got to pay off that debt’. The wiser your choices in the planning stages, the less financial stress you’ll have.
Setting The Date
Don’t be lured into choosing a late Spring or Summer date for your wedding if you can avoid it. The height of the Wedding season sees venue rates reaching new heights of their own! Instead, check out the weeks just outside the main season. You’ll find they’re usually a little, if not a lot, cheaper.
The Venue
Where you get married is probably the second most important thing (next to who you’re marrying of course!). Make sure you pick somewhere which feels right for you, but similarly, feels right for your budget. It helps if you choose a venue which can host your reception as well as the actual wedding because you’ll usually only have to pay one hire fee and you won’t need a hire car to get you there after you’ve tied the knot. Also, check out venues like hotels or lodges which will throw in a room for the night as part of the deal. It’ll give you somewhere to stay after that one glass of champagne too many, but it also offers you the chance to arrive early and don your dress prior to the wedding, which means you can drive yourself and say goodbye to those extortionate car hire rates altogether. And let’s face it, when everyone’s inside and waiting for you to appear at the beginning of the aisle, they’re not actually going to see what you turn up in anyway, now are they?
The Flowers
Seriously, you might think this suggestion is a little mad, but instead of wasting huge sums of money on bouquets from the local florist, consider making them yourself. Buy some mixed flowers from your local supermarket or florist a day or two before, and keep them in water. The night before or, if you have time, the morning itself, arrange the flowers into a small bouquet and tie the long stems together to keep them in place. They can be secured with ribbons and bows (or green electrical tape) and then placed back in a little water to keep them fresh. They’ll cost a tenth of the price and you won’t run the risk of them not turning up or arriving half dead.
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