Nowadays, the average cost of planning a wedding is quite expensive which distinguishes wedding to be one of the most expensive life events...
There are various ways to save money when planning a wedding.
Wedding venue
Getting the wedding venue can be so costly but you can still save a lot of money when it comes to getting the right venue. You can just book a place other than saturday and searching for a place outside the city limits.
Food and drink menu
Provide your own food, drinks and desserts for your wedding by enlisting your friends and family to help and not extending yourself with complicated expenses. Find a venue that allows you to bring in your liquor, beer and wine as the bar tab is always the most expensive part of refreshments. If you do not want to bring your own food, consider serving heavy appetizers instead of a sit-down meal.
Wedding photographer and videographer
Everyone wants a memory of the great day, we all want to safeguard our memories reminding us of all moments and emotions of that day, which can be quite exorbitant. Ways to save in this, is to hire someone who is just getting started in his career but actually a great photographer so as to limit the cost of payment.
Wedding decorations
Do not go overboard with this or go out of budget when decorating your venue. There are still ways you can save for this. As for the DJ, it will be expensive to hire a professional musician, life band, but you can hire a student DJ or musician or consider any acquintances that can perform.
Wedding dress
When it comes to the bride's wedding dress, it is easy to go out of budget when considering the bride's favourite element of the wedding. You can also save money on this only if the bride sticks to her budget and shops wisely.
Wedding jewelry
This include the wedding rings to all the pieces of jewelry to be worn to compliment the wedding outfits. Aside the wedding dress of the bride, there is still going to be collection of some pieces of jewelry to compliment her wedding dress. To avoid spending above the budget for jewelry, just stay off the high-end stores.
Wedding invitations
You can take the responsibility of the wedding invitations yourself by doing part of it or virtually all. You can simply go electronic by sending out email invitations. This is actually a great idea to save on wedding invitations.
With the listed tips, you are good to save a lot of money on your wedding and mind you, still incurring cost on each and every guests in your party. Also, they will spend money for you too, to show their gratitude for being invited to your wedding and to show they are in full support of your marriage. Gifts would be received by you from them to reveal their happiness to your union. Create a perfect wedding registry, to ensure that your guests get you gifts that will be beneficial to you.
Most importantly, the amount spent that day will not be a direct correlation of how glamorous the day would be. You can have a wonderful, memorable day for as economical as possible.
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