Beautiful Weddings

The reception is traditionally one of the most expensive aspects of a wedding. However, by combining personal creativity and ingenuity with inexpensive, ready-made items available at discount retailers, brides-to-be and cash-strapped parents can host a beautiful wedding reception without blowing through the entire bridal budget.

“Creating a beautiful wedding environment on a budget is simple”. By putting a personal touch on everything from table centerpieces to wedding favors, brides and grooms can save while creating memories for years to come.

While June is still the most popular month for weddings, according to a recent study by Hallmark.com, September and October are quickly gaining in popularity. Here are some great last-minute planning tips this fall for brides and grooms-to-be:

* If renting a reception tent, create a romantic environment by purchasing sheering fabric and 2-inch ribbon from a local discount retailer to drape around the canopy. Create billows of fabric and hang from the ceiling, wrap around poles, and swag in the entryway.

* Whether throwing an indoor or outdoor reception, flowers help set the tone but can quickly add up. A typical flower budget is 15 percent of the overall cost of a wedding. Consider using some of the beautiful and realistic-looking silk flowers available today intermingled with arrangements of fresh flowers to keep the romance high and the costs low. The bride and groom can use the silk flowers in the home for years to come.

* Every bride wants to do something unique at her wedding. Create a dramatic, sweet-smelling entrance for guests by lining a walkway to the reception venue or reception tent with fresh rose petals. Also consider renting a bubble machine, available at retailers such as Wal-Mart, for some added ambiance and fun.

* Renting both table settings and white linen tablecloths can get expensive. Instead, consider purchasing clear glass plates from a discount retailer. Stack the salad plate on top of the dinner plate and place a large leaf between the two for a very pretty place setting. Buying plates is often less expensive than renting and the bride and groom can keep them for the years (and dinner parties) ahead.

* Remember to keep centerpieces either low enough or high enough so guests can see each other from across the table. A simple cake pedestal adorned with sugared fruits and a candle makes a beautiful and an inexpensive centerpiece. Add to the sugary sparkle by placing candles in votive candle holders to illuminate the centerpieces from underneath. Remember to place approximately half an inch of water in each candle holder or glass for easy removal of melted wax.

* For more formal wedding receptions, assigning guests to tables is considered proper etiquette but that doesn’t mean it has to be stuffy. Purchase large sugar cookies and pipe romantic words like “joy,” “hope,” “love,” and “forever” on each cookie. Place one cookie in each centerpiece to replace traditional numbered tables and have your place cards direct your guests to these romantically identified tables.

* Wedding favors that double as place cards can be made by purchasing sugar cookies from a local bakery that are iced in white. Pipe each guest’s names on the cookies in colored icing a day or two before the wedding. Place in cellophane bags, tied with a ribbon, and set at each guest’s place setting so guests know where to sit.

* Handmade keepsakes given out during the wedding reception are an easy and thoughtful way to thank the wedding party. Create beautiful, unique cards for the bridesmaids by purchasing simple white note cards, decorated with the wedding’s theme colors embellished with different fabrics or small trinkets purchased from a craft department. Write a cherished memory or personal note inside the card, which bridesmaids can keep for the years to come.

* And don’t forget the wedding cake, which can be very expensive, depending on the number of guests attending. Consider purchasing a decorated sheet cake from a local bakery in addition to a smaller tiered cake. Then marry them together as one elaborate cake with piping and rose petals. Brides and grooms may find that bakeries like those at a Wal-Mart Supercenter can make unique and cost-conscious tiered wedding cakes that are beautiful as well as delicious. Remember, all cakes are created equal — flour, sugar, and butter — so there’s no need to spend a fortune on one.

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The idea of getting married is something that appeals to many people until they realize how expensive a wedding can be!  Many people start to wonder just how they are going to have the wedding as things can get out of hand with cost quite quickly.  It’s true that you can spend an unlimited amount of money on a wedding, but you don’t have to.  You can easily work within your budget.  You may need to get a bit more creative or hands on, but this will actually make your big day more enjoyable.

 

Have you been shocked by the price of invitations?  It is possible to spend upwards of several hundred dollars on wedding invitations, but you don’t have to.  You can buy cheap wedding invitations that are just as beautiful.  You can do a couple of things to buy invitations more affordably such as buying styles that are on clearance, printing your own invitations, or even creating your own invitations.  Card stock with a picture of the two of you on it and the wedding details printed on your home computer would be just as lovely as an expensive invitation that you cannot or do not want to afford.

 

When you begin looking at items for the reception you may worry about the cost of things such as wedding centerpieces, which can get expensive really quickly.  You don’t need to do any extravagant for the wedding centerpieces, instead you can take a trip to the dollar store and buy small glass globes, fill them with colored stones, and even put a votive in there.  Each centerpiece will cost you less than $3 if you do it this way and it will be just as beautiful and appreciated as a more luxurious centerpiece that is out of your budget.

 

Another area of concern as you progress through the planning may be the groomsmen and bridesmaid gifts.  This is a very old tradition that doesn’t actually have to be observed if you don’t want it to be.  Let your friends know that you don’t want them to give you gifts and you won’t either.  Another option is to take your friends out for a game of golf or bowling and have that be your gift to them.  Pick something that is affordable but you all like, this will be more memorable than some trinket you give them for being in your wedding, anyway.

 

As you can see, there are simple ways to make things affordable.  This doesn’t mean that you won’t have a wedding that you can look back on fondly, it just means that you can work within your current budget and come away from the wedding without any more debt than you went in with.  Weddings are special, but that doesn’t mean you have to go broke before you’re even married.