I had a Sunday brunch wedding in a botanical garden which saved a ton of money. No dancing and instead of a dj I hired a cellist and violinist to play during the reception. I did my own flower arrangements for the tables and hired a florist only for my bouquet. I also baked my own wedding cake! I found 5 recipes on Pinterest and made mini versions of them and had a tasting with my friends to decide on which one to make for the wedding. It was such a fun memory.
I’m planning a brunch wedding too. I’ve never been to one and it’s not common in my area at all. But it will save me so much money, so I want to do it :)
I think people sometimes go overboard with their weddings and end up regretting the cost of it afterwards when They spend the next five years paying it off.
Absolutely. When I started sharing how I returned my engagement ring with people, TONS of stories came out of the woodwork from people who said they wish they had spent less or that they rarely ever wear theirs. Of course, that's not always the case. But I was surprised how many regrets I heard.
Seems in the USA people have endless debt after leaving college or a larger wedding. In Switzerland we do not. Our universities are maximum CHF 800 per semester or free if one cannot pay. For weddings both sides of family chip in with money. So no debt.
Yes. When a couple I knew got married, the groom asked the bride, "Do you want a huge wedding, or do you want to put a down payment on a house?" She picked the wedding, and they divorced 2 years later anyway.
I had my wedding for 8k. Consignment dress, no engagement ring, lone matron of honor dress for $20 on Amazon, no flowers (except 2 bouquets we got at the grocery story the morning of), my own books for centerpieces, tiny Whole Foods white cake as our wedding cake (which we didn't even touch cuz we forgot) and cupcakes for guests. It was a dream.
I'm looking for bridal gown at a consignment store because it's 75%, some of the dresses are $6,000+ marked down to $200. Also simple wedding bands can save a lot of money as blingy rings are expensive.
Wow! What a great list of tips. I'm not getting married anytime soon but I really appreciate how this video can help people who want to have a more traditional wedding but still save money. Great work!
You can also have a longer engagement so that you save up for the wedding you want. That also gives you more time to DIY stuff or hunt down more reasonable options
Congratulations! I got married this past August and here are the ways we saved money: booked our venue during their off-season, skipped flower centerpieces for tables (instead we DIY'd something I found on Pinterest), had my mother-in-law bake a wedding cheesecake for us (she's a wonderful baker) and bought cheesecakes from Publix for our guests, bought my dress from a wedding dress outlet, had a friend's relative officiate our wedding for free, skipped save-the-dates and RSVP cards, I used my engagement ring for my wedding band (I'm not really into wearing rings so I'm happy only wearing one, especially since it has an unusual shape, it would've been hard to find a wedding band to go with it), skipped wedding favors which most people would probably forget to take anyway, skipped decorations for the ceremony site since it was set in a gazebo and a beautiful courtyard, borrowed my sister's veil, and had an open wine/beer bar instead of a full liquor bar. So many of our guests told us how beautiful our wedding was and they had such a great time :)
Loving all of these tips! I am currently planning my wedding, and the best way I can describe my budget it: less than "average", but more than "cheap"!
So many ways to save $ on a wedding!! I found a ring I loved, but did not love the price, so my husband found a similar one I liked even better on Amazon for less than 1/4 the price! We rented a brick building at our local state park for $200. Did the decor ourselves. Super simple, we used small fish bowls, w colored marbles and candles. And purple mason jars w dolies and a few roses. Colored streamers and table clothes. We had a couple yards of lace w some pillar vases w candles in them for the ceremony which a friend officiated. Another friend video taped the ceremony bc my grandparents were unable to attend. Yet another friend who was starting her own business gave us a great deal on photos. We got the decor at $tree, the cakes and flowers at our local grocery and hit up costco for fruit and veggies which a friend helped me cut up and arrange on platters the night before. My wedding dress was a clearance bridesmades dress in off white. My husband had to pay nearly $1000 for his suit because he is 6'6". The suit was more than everything else combined, including my ring!
Another cool thing-a wedding I went to recently had everyone bring a flower from home to add to the bouquet and the flower girl was supposed to pick them up from everyone as she went down the aisle and give it to the bride-didn't go to plan as a bit logistically complicated for her but it added to the niceness of the wedding.
I thonk the idea of using the bouquets as centerpieces is really nice. Or just use some plants and greens, because the flower will most likely only last the night. Or maybe succulents and blooming cacti, that way you can at least use them afterwards.
For flowers we made everything ourselves (okay hubby made them, I'm not crafty lol) out of fabric flowers from the craft store. Not only do I still have my bouquet but we turned the center pieces into take home gifts for our guests and the archway he made hung over the doorway to our bedroom for years only breaking when it fell over in the moving van. We also did the entire theme wedding for only $500 between using what we already had and getting our family and friends to help out instead of hiring someone to do it for us. Everyone loved having a part to play and said they really felt a part of the wedding, instead of just an onlooker.
Angie In The City my best cost-saving tips: find a place where you can bring in whatever food you want, use a small family restaurant for catering (we ended up paying $6.50 per person for a huge Italian Feast), & get your cake made at the grocery store (we got a huge, beautiful, and delicious cake at our local Kroger and it was $120 delivered to our venue).
Totally agree with all these hacks! I bought flowers wholesale and then assembled them into bouquets and centerpieces (vases bought at local GW) and still had so much left that my niece decorated the entire procession and altar dripping in flowers... all for ~$300!... I also paid for my bridesmaids dresses at about $40/ea from JCP closeout sale... oh and Spotify was my DJ!
We got married as part of the regular high mass which not only allowed us to have as many guests as we wanted but also became a really big party as the congregation served cake afterwards. We then went to a nice Chinese restaurant with the closest 30 which was fairly inexpensive. I think there are so many ways to be creative with wedding planning if you focus on what you want, not what others expect.
Love wedding savings. I saved thousands by 1. Making and playlist and having special guests do the announcements - no DJ or live band 2. Flower free centerpieces, and we bought flowers from whole foods and made our own bouquets - no florist
I had a morning wedding and afternoon reception, which saved us money. We also reused the church flowers for our table centerpieces, saved on bouquets by leaving out the baby's breath filler, went with the cheaper white wine toast instead of champagne, and got a discount on our cake because we knew the baker. There are lots of ways you can save while still having a beautiful wedding!
I would have added: Be aware the minute you utter "wedding" instead of "family get together" costs $$$$$$$$$ go stupid high. Don't buy into the hype of "once in a lifetime" crap. Prom dresses/cocktail hour dresses are often just as nice as "bridesmaid" dresses and cheaper. Use seasonal flowers and greenery. No, you don't need to wear a white wedding dress. Yes, it's "tradition" but the cost of a white wedding dress you are only going to wear one time can be stupid crazy high. Be different, and it's okay. For the food: No need to go overboard. Or crazy with the add-ons. It's okay to keep it simple like to finger foods, nonmessy/ non-greasy foods. You don't need a full bar or booze, soft drinks and alcohol-free cocktails might be just as a big of a hit. Guests might be just as happy with cheese, crackers, fruit/veggie trays, and finger foods. The cake: It might be cheaper to have a smallish one or two teir cake you cut in front of the guests and then it wheeled to the kitchen where it's severed alongside sheet cake in place of a fancy $$$$ multi-tier cake. If you are wanting a photographer or videographer for your wedding, see if a local college has a photography major and/or some film students who would be willing to come in and photograph/film your wedding and edit the video/make up some wedding photo books for some $$ and a reference. Same with any graphic arts students see if they can do a project for you of making up wedding invites/escort cards/posters whatever for your wedding for the cost of supplies to add to their portfolio/references.
My Mum at her wedding made all her table centerpieces by hand. She used local rocks and sand, wrapped them into little parcels with very pretty wrapping paper that matched to the bridesmaid dresses, added ribbons on top and strung helium balloons on them. Not only was this super cheap it also left lots of room on the table for people to eat and drink. It left nothing expensive that could be knocked over by rowdy British party goers, and left lots of viewing angles open so everyone could see each other clearly across the room for speeches and dancing! It cost about thirty pounds give or take (mostly for the helium) for an entire ballrooms worth, and everyone took home a balloon at the end (because who doesn't want to feel like a kid with a balloon tied to their wrist >.< It was very cute and everyone giggled)! I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants cheap easy centerpieces and it makes a great project to do on the lead up that you can sit with kids and do (at least older kids if you want quality finished products). Plus no flowers are harmed in making these pieces.
One tip I can share that saved me over $1000 in catering: People think that getting appetizers are the cheap way out, but really they are more expensive. More labor and usually more of a food budget. Ask for quotes on both appetizers and a full meal. The full meal saved me over $1000 because it took off a LOT of labor charges for the caterer :)
My wedding hacks? Sheet cake from grocery store, flowers from local florist that were in season, everyone in the wedding party wore the best thing they owned, my dress was a cocktail dress from sears, dinner was potlock family style barbeque. Music? Favorite songs from our itunes list.
Wedding budget hack number 7: Don't tell people you buy things from or hire for services/help that it's a wedding. It's always more expensive when it's a wedding!
That can backfire when they eventually find out that it is for a wedding. It’s considered breach of contract since technically it's a lie by omission. You can try this, but it might not work out.
Two things: Firstly, what you can do is ask why the services/things you want are more expensive because you want them for a wedding, and I wonder if it is in every case 100 % legal for a some company to say "You have to pay more for the cake/band/flowers because it is (or was) for a wedding and for no other reason". Secondly, if I get a call from you because you want to rent tables from me for "festivities on a meadow" and I don't ask what they are for, why should you be legally obliged to tell me without being asked about it that you need the tables for a wedding?
@@camelopardalis84 Sometimes vendors will up the quality or pay better attention to the final product when you mention that their services will be for a wedding.
@@camelopardalis84 I don't know about the US, but in my country it's certainly not legal to charge different fees for the same product or service. And if they tell you there's gonna be more attention to detail because it's a wedding, it's probably a company not worth doing bussiness with in the first place. True professionals will always do their best to please their clients, no matter what.
@@silvasilvasilva Nope different expectations for different events. A wedding carries weight and is one of the more important events in a person's life. It needs a higher quality of care.
I would be glad to go totally paperless for my own wedding in the future, but I am from a country where it is quite out of the ordinary and a lot of people from older generations do not use Internet or not for these purposes. I don't have an upcoming wedding, but almost had a wedding in my previous relationship, and these are the items we contemplated "budget hacking": wedding dress made by a friend who is a seamstreass, no gifts/favours for guests (other than leftover sweets and pastries), inviting only the closest family and friends - also, because of this and having max 20 ppl, going to a restaurant and order a la carte and not renting a room in the restaurant, only having a nice chatty lunch without extra "performances" and live music, designing and printing invitations at home, no bridesmaids and consequentially bridesmaid dresses, accommodating guests coming from a different city within family (no paying extra for hotel rooms), doing my own makeup, not having a really intricate hairdo for me, not having a party that goes well into midnight/next day, no videographer.
Great tips - these are wonderful tips I never considered like using youtube to learn your first dance vs paying a professional ✔️ Video is saved for when I get married, thanks!!
Episodes I'd love to see: general tips for managing finances with a permanent or episodic disability, cheap ways to refurbish furniture etc without having to do the sanding and repainting yourself, how to pamper on a budget (things like how to find discounts on spa services or minor plastic surgery) In general I'm a high maintenance type of girl, but I can't work so affording the nicer things usually only available to the upper upper middle class feels completely out of reach and I refuse to accept that.
1. I decided to do the paper save the dates and invites, but instead of mailing them, I handed them out to friends and family personally, only sending them through mail for long distance guests. 2. I went to a bunch of wedding shows and was able to get wedding show discounts. I'm opting to skip the DJ and just use different playlists. 3. My fiancee doesnt ever dance, so we decided swaying around is going to be for us. 4. I saved money on flowers by buying fake ones. The fake bouquets I chose for my bridesmaids were $7. The same bouquet as real flowers would have been upwards of $50. My personal bouquet was $40, because its huge, but it would have been over $200 with real flowers! As for my centerpieces, I bought single fake flowers for a few dollars, and I'm using decorated beer bottles as holders. It's a really nice, rustic look that is super cheap. Other money saving hacks I'm using are: -Buying supermarket cakes instead of bakery cakes -Not hiring any decorators or planners -Having my ceremony at the same hall as my reception -Opting for a cash bar -switching out wedding favors for 2 bottles of large batch made wine on the tables.
I have thought of so many creative ways (via the web) to send invites. Do people think it is tacky or creative to forgo the traditional paper invites/ Save the dates? What are your opinions on it?
Ultimately that's your choice, but please make sure it's not just a simple e-mail with standard bw fonts. Put some effort into it. Also make sure you are up to date - you do not want to risk someone's invitation going into the spam folder of their old account so that it doesn't get forwarded to their new one. That happened to me, I didn't formally receive my sister's wedding invitation from her - it was forwarded to me by another wedding guest. Ouch.
We sent paper invites but did not do save the dates or RSVPs. We just asked guests to RSVP via our wedding website, phone or email. Totally your call though. Weddings should be about what you want/can afford.
I watched a CBC marketplace video and based on that I recommend when booking a venue or any service that has a wedding choice pick other or just gathering, this might get you in trouble but you can save a ton of money doing this
I think you should never as a creative professional for a discount, especially if you don’t give discounts in your own profession. If you won’t do it, why should they?
If you have a family member who knows their way around a camera, have them take the wedding portrait, then leave disposable cameras on the table at the reception.
I had a Sunday brunch wedding in a botanical garden which saved a ton of money. No dancing and instead of a dj I hired a cellist and violinist to play during the reception. I did my own flower arrangements for the tables and hired a florist only for my bouquet. I also baked my own wedding cake! I found 5 recipes on Pinterest and made mini versions of them and had a tasting with my friends to decide on which one to make for the wedding. It was such a fun memory.
That sounds hella classy you should be proud!
I love this idea! Especially for a micro wedding
That sounds amazing and botanical garden is such a beautiful wedding location :)
Thanks everyone! It was perfect :)
I’m planning a brunch wedding too. I’ve never been to one and it’s not common in my area at all. But it will save me so much money, so I want to do it :)
I think people sometimes go overboard with their weddings and end up regretting the cost of it afterwards when They spend the next five years paying it off.
Absolutely. When I started sharing how I returned my engagement ring with people, TONS of stories came out of the woodwork from people who said they wish they had spent less or that they rarely ever wear theirs. Of course, that's not always the case. But I was surprised how many regrets I heard.
Seems in the USA people have
endless debt after leaving college
or a larger wedding. In Switzerland we do not. Our
universities are maximum
CHF 800 per semester or free
if one cannot pay. For weddings
both sides of family chip in with
money. So no debt.
Yes. When a couple I knew got married, the groom asked the bride, "Do you want a huge wedding, or do you want to put a down payment on a house?" She picked the wedding, and they divorced 2 years later anyway.
I had my wedding for 8k. Consignment dress, no engagement ring, lone matron of honor dress for $20 on Amazon, no flowers (except 2 bouquets we got at the grocery story the morning of), my own books for centerpieces, tiny Whole Foods white cake as our wedding cake (which we didn't even touch cuz we forgot) and cupcakes for guests. It was a dream.
Omg I love the idea of having the bride and groom's fav books as centre pieces!
I'm looking for bridal gown at a consignment store because it's 75%, some of the dresses are $6,000+ marked down to $200. Also simple wedding bands can save a lot of money as blingy rings are expensive.
Wow! What a great list of tips. I'm not getting married anytime soon but I really appreciate how this video can help people who want to have a more traditional wedding but still save money. Great work!
You can also have a longer engagement so that you save up for the wedding you want. That also gives you more time to DIY stuff or hunt down more reasonable options
Me, three years.
Congratulations! I got married this past August and here are the ways we saved money: booked our venue during their off-season, skipped flower centerpieces for tables (instead we DIY'd something I found on Pinterest), had my mother-in-law bake a wedding cheesecake for us (she's a wonderful baker) and bought cheesecakes from Publix for our guests, bought my dress from a wedding dress outlet, had a friend's relative officiate our wedding for free, skipped save-the-dates and RSVP cards, I used my engagement ring for my wedding band (I'm not really into wearing rings so I'm happy only wearing one, especially since it has an unusual shape, it would've been hard to find a wedding band to go with it), skipped wedding favors which most people would probably forget to take anyway, skipped decorations for the ceremony site since it was set in a gazebo and a beautiful courtyard, borrowed my sister's veil, and had an open wine/beer bar instead of a full liquor bar. So many of our guests told us how beautiful our wedding was and they had such a great time :)
Loving all of these tips! I am currently planning my wedding, and the best way I can describe my budget it: less than "average", but more than "cheap"!
Where are you "splurging?" I'm always so curious where people opt to invest in their weddings.
So many ways to save $ on a wedding!! I found a ring I loved, but did not love the price, so my husband found a similar one I liked even better on Amazon for less than 1/4 the price! We rented a brick building at our local state park for $200. Did the decor ourselves. Super simple, we used small fish bowls, w colored marbles and candles. And purple mason jars w dolies and a few roses. Colored streamers and table clothes. We had a couple yards of lace w some pillar vases w candles in them for the ceremony which a friend officiated. Another friend video taped the ceremony bc my grandparents were unable to attend. Yet another friend who was starting her own business gave us a great deal on photos. We got the decor at $tree, the cakes and flowers at our local grocery and hit up costco for fruit and veggies which a friend helped me cut up and arrange on platters the night before. My wedding dress was a clearance bridesmades dress in off white. My husband had to pay nearly $1000 for his suit because he is 6'6". The suit was more than everything else combined, including my ring!
Or 1 hack: pay $100 for a license filing/notarize and J.o.P. Then have a party elsewhere.
Another cool thing-a wedding I went to recently had everyone bring a flower from home to add to the bouquet and the flower girl was supposed to pick them up from everyone as she went down the aisle and give it to the bride-didn't go to plan as a bit logistically complicated for her but it added to the niceness of the wedding.
I thonk the idea of using the bouquets as centerpieces is really nice. Or just use some plants and greens, because the flower will most likely only last the night. Or maybe succulents and blooming cacti, that way you can at least use them afterwards.
For flowers we made everything ourselves (okay hubby made them, I'm not crafty lol) out of fabric flowers from the craft store. Not only do I still have my bouquet but we turned the center pieces into take home gifts for our guests and the archway he made hung over the doorway to our bedroom for years only breaking when it fell over in the moving van. We also did the entire theme wedding for only $500 between using what we already had and getting our family and friends to help out instead of hiring someone to do it for us. Everyone loved having a part to play and said they really felt a part of the wedding, instead of just an onlooker.
Oh i needed this video!!!! Recently engaged and we have no money hahaha
Angie In The City feel you. I just got engaged and I’m close to broke. Haha
Angie In The City my best cost-saving tips: find a place where you can bring in whatever food you want, use a small family restaurant for catering (we ended up paying $6.50 per person for a huge Italian Feast), & get your cake made at the grocery store (we got a huge, beautiful, and delicious cake at our local Kroger and it was $120 delivered to our venue).
@@Brianna_Little_Apple_Mama Excellent!!!
@@Brianna_Little_Apple_Mama What!? thank you soooo much. The wedding won't be until 2020 but I need all the advice I can get lol
@@paulinebeal5808 Gotta get these credit card bills down too lmao
Totally agree with all these hacks! I bought flowers wholesale and then assembled them into bouquets and centerpieces (vases bought at local GW) and still had so much left that my niece decorated the entire procession and altar dripping in flowers... all for ~$300!... I also paid for my bridesmaids dresses at about $40/ea from JCP closeout sale... oh and Spotify was my DJ!
We got married as part of the regular high mass which not only allowed us to have as many guests as we wanted but also became a really big party as the congregation served cake afterwards. We then went to a nice Chinese restaurant with the closest 30 which was fairly inexpensive. I think there are so many ways to be creative with wedding planning if you focus on what you want, not what others expect.
Love wedding savings. I saved thousands by
1. Making and playlist and having special guests do the announcements - no DJ or live band
2. Flower free centerpieces, and we bought flowers from whole foods and made our own bouquets - no florist
We opted out of cake and had key lime pie and stacks of books instead of flowers for centerpieces.
I think having special guests doing the announcement is extra special. How and where did you get the mic/equipment for music?
I had a morning wedding and afternoon reception, which saved us money. We also reused the church flowers for our table centerpieces, saved on bouquets by leaving out the baby's breath filler, went with the cheaper white wine toast instead of champagne, and got a discount on our cake because we knew the baker. There are lots of ways you can save while still having a beautiful wedding!
for the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", you could use the routine from the game Just Dance 😂
I would have added: Be aware the minute you utter "wedding" instead of "family get together" costs $$$$$$$$$ go stupid high. Don't buy into the hype of "once in a lifetime" crap.
Prom dresses/cocktail hour dresses are often just as nice as "bridesmaid" dresses and cheaper.
Use seasonal flowers and greenery.
No, you don't need to wear a white wedding dress. Yes, it's "tradition" but the cost of a white wedding dress you are only going to wear one time can be stupid crazy high. Be different, and it's okay.
For the food: No need to go overboard. Or crazy with the add-ons. It's okay to keep it simple like to finger foods, nonmessy/ non-greasy foods. You don't need a full bar or booze, soft drinks and alcohol-free cocktails might be just as a big of a hit. Guests might be just as happy with cheese, crackers, fruit/veggie trays, and finger foods.
The cake: It might be cheaper to have a smallish one or two teir cake you cut in front of the guests and then it wheeled to the kitchen where it's severed alongside sheet cake in place of a fancy $$$$ multi-tier cake.
If you are wanting a photographer or videographer for your wedding, see if a local college has a photography major and/or some film students who would be willing to come in and photograph/film your wedding and edit the video/make up some wedding photo books for some $$ and a reference.
Same with any graphic arts students see if they can do a project for you of making up wedding invites/escort cards/posters whatever for your wedding for the cost of supplies to add to their portfolio/references.
That's awesome that you paid for your bridesmaids dresses!
My Mum at her wedding made all her table centerpieces by hand. She used local rocks and sand, wrapped them into little parcels with very pretty wrapping paper that matched to the bridesmaid dresses, added ribbons on top and strung helium balloons on them. Not only was this super cheap it also left lots of room on the table for people to eat and drink. It left nothing expensive that could be knocked over by rowdy British party goers, and left lots of viewing angles open so everyone could see each other clearly across the room for speeches and dancing! It cost about thirty pounds give or take (mostly for the helium) for an entire ballrooms worth, and everyone took home a balloon at the end (because who doesn't want to feel like a kid with a balloon tied to their wrist >.< It was very cute and everyone giggled)!
I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants cheap easy centerpieces and it makes a great project to do on the lead up that you can sit with kids and do (at least older kids if you want quality finished products). Plus no flowers are harmed in making these pieces.
One tip I can share that saved me over $1000 in catering:
People think that getting appetizers are the cheap way out, but really they are more expensive. More labor and usually more of a food budget.
Ask for quotes on both appetizers and a full meal.
The full meal saved me over $1000 because it took off a LOT of labor charges for the caterer :)
My wedding hacks? Sheet cake from grocery store, flowers from local florist that were in season, everyone in the wedding party wore the best thing they owned, my dress was a cocktail dress from sears, dinner was potlock family style barbeque. Music? Favorite songs from our itunes list.
So interesting! Never heard of half of these options! NEED THIS DESPIRATELY RIGHT NOW
Great ideas! insane how much money can be spent for 1 day!
Wedding budget hack number 7: Don't tell people you buy things from or hire for services/help that it's a wedding. It's always more expensive when it's a wedding!
That can backfire when they eventually find out that it is for a wedding. It’s considered breach of contract since technically it's a lie by omission. You can try this, but it might not work out.
Two things: Firstly, what you can do is ask why the services/things you want are more expensive because you want them for a wedding, and I wonder if it is in every case 100 % legal for a some company to say "You have to pay more for the cake/band/flowers because it is (or was) for a wedding and for no other reason". Secondly, if I get a call from you because you want to rent tables from me for "festivities on a meadow" and I don't ask what they are for, why should you be legally obliged to tell me without being asked about it that you need the tables for a wedding?
@@camelopardalis84 Sometimes vendors will up the quality or pay better attention to the final product when you mention that their services will be for a wedding.
@@camelopardalis84 I don't know about the US, but in my country it's certainly not legal to charge different fees for the same product or service. And if they tell you there's gonna be more attention to detail because it's a wedding, it's probably a company not worth doing bussiness with in the first place. True professionals will always do their best to please their clients, no matter what.
@@silvasilvasilva Nope different expectations for different events. A wedding carries weight and is one of the more important events in a person's life. It needs a higher quality of care.
I would be glad to go totally paperless for my own wedding in the future, but I am from a country where it is quite out of the ordinary and a lot of people from older generations do not use Internet or not for these purposes. I don't have an upcoming wedding, but almost had a wedding in my previous relationship, and these are the items we contemplated "budget hacking": wedding dress made by a friend who is a seamstreass, no gifts/favours for guests (other than leftover sweets and pastries), inviting only the closest family and friends - also, because of this and having max 20 ppl, going to a restaurant and order a la carte and not renting a room in the restaurant, only having a nice chatty lunch without extra "performances" and live music, designing and printing invitations at home, no bridesmaids and consequentially bridesmaid dresses, accommodating guests coming from a different city within family (no paying extra for hotel rooms), doing my own makeup, not having a really intricate hairdo for me, not having a party that goes well into midnight/next day, no videographer.
I'm just getting married at the courthouse but these are actually pretty good tips!
GREAT tips here!! As a wedding vendor I can say that weddings can be expensive so these are GREAT ideas here.
Can we have another video that is focused on a budget wedding? I'd be interested in what the final numbers were.
Greenery as flowers
This was awesome! My Brother is getting married soon so I've been looking for as many tips as I can get. Excellent video!
We are buying bridesmaid dresses off SHEIN
These are super helpful as I'm currently planning my wedding!
Great tips - these are wonderful tips I never considered like using youtube to learn your first dance vs paying a professional ✔️ Video is saved for when I get married, thanks!!
Episodes I'd love to see: general tips for managing finances with a permanent or episodic disability, cheap ways to refurbish furniture etc without having to do the sanding and repainting yourself, how to pamper on a budget (things like how to find discounts on spa services or minor plastic surgery)
In general I'm a high maintenance type of girl, but I can't work so affording the nicer things usually only available to the upper upper middle class feels completely out of reach and I refuse to accept that.
Topic suggestion: how to minimise cost of moving from one place to another? Thanks
1. I decided to do the paper save the dates and invites, but instead of mailing them, I handed them out to friends and family personally, only sending them through mail for long distance guests.
2. I went to a bunch of wedding shows and was able to get wedding show discounts. I'm opting to skip the DJ and just use different playlists.
3. My fiancee doesnt ever dance, so we decided swaying around is going to be for us.
4. I saved money on flowers by buying fake ones. The fake bouquets I chose for my bridesmaids were $7. The same bouquet as real flowers would have been upwards of $50. My personal bouquet was $40, because its huge, but it would have been over $200 with real flowers!
As for my centerpieces, I bought single fake flowers for a few dollars, and I'm using decorated beer bottles as holders. It's a really nice, rustic look that is super cheap.
Other money saving hacks I'm using are:
-Buying supermarket cakes instead of bakery cakes
-Not hiring any decorators or planners
-Having my ceremony at the same hall as my reception
-Opting for a cash bar
-switching out wedding favors for 2 bottles of large batch made wine on the tables.
I’d love to hear Chelsea’s take on this too!
I have thought of so many creative ways (via the web) to send invites. Do people think it is tacky or creative to forgo the traditional paper invites/ Save the dates? What are your opinions on it?
Ultimately that's your choice, but please make sure it's not just a simple e-mail with standard bw fonts. Put some effort into it. Also make sure you are up to date - you do not want to risk someone's invitation going into the spam folder of their old account so that it doesn't get forwarded to their new one. That happened to me, I didn't formally receive my sister's wedding invitation from her - it was forwarded to me by another wedding guest. Ouch.
I think it’s a great idea! Especially if there are great graphics.
@@thebeautyshock Exactly, if it's nicely presented.
We sent paper invites but did not do save the dates or RSVPs. We just asked guests to RSVP via our wedding website, phone or email. Totally your call though. Weddings should be about what you want/can afford.
the sorrygirls made some cute diy paper invites and they turned out super nice and looked like something from a whimsical themed catalogue
Amazing tips!!!
HOW DID YALL KNOW I JUST GOT ENGAGED?! love your vids!:)
such an awesome video...
Got married: that's the spirit!
I watched a CBC marketplace video and based on that I recommend when booking a venue or any service that has a wedding choice pick other or just gathering, this might get you in trouble but you can save a ton of money doing this
Congrats!
1. We sent our invites as Christmas cards
2. I pod with Spotify playlist
Congratulations
I think you should never as a creative professional for a discount, especially if you don’t give discounts in your own profession. If you won’t do it, why should they?
The Skillshare link doesn't work
Skill share link didn’t work 😩
Subscription might come in handy for those diy bridal dreams for my June wedding. Do you have another link?
The link didnt work for me either :(
Perfect timing! Nah just kidding... my wedding was a month ago...
I'm going to die alone but great video!
If you have a family member who knows their way around a camera, have them take the wedding portrait, then leave disposable cameras on the table at the reception.
Wow ... not very useful at all
Advice #1: Don't get married
😂😂😂😂😂😂
28 yo single person. Can't relate.