How to Save Money on Your Wedding

Wedding is certainly one of the most important days in any person’s life. It is the day about which we dream entire life and thought of planning it perfectly rattles in our mind every now and then. We keep thinking about the great day until it approaches in front of us.

It is not at all wrong to have a dream wedding and everyone wants to look and do best on the wedding day. For the same, they don’t mind spending money on dresses, gifts, guests, venue, food, decoration, jewelry etc. But, did anyone of us ever think on the fact that it is the love and warmth between two people which value much more than all this?

So, we should plan and execute a beautiful wedding, but keeping our financial position in mind. It should not happen that we spend carelessly which may land us in problem later on. We should definitely plan it out in our budget. Let us read how we can save money in our wedding.

1. Make a guest list. This will help you decide better the things like number of centerpieces, food etc. You can also cut the list and think on inviting the most important ones. In this way, your expenditure on various things including invitation cards will be reduced.
2. You can send out single paper invitation cards to make savings. Moreover, giving one card per couple will make the difference as well.
3. Send out email invitation for ‘save the dates’.
4. If you have time and are creative enough, you can design and make your own invitation and menu cards.
5. Most of the weddings take place on weekends and if you decide to get married on weekdays, the venue will be available in much cheaper rate.
6. Keeping the ceremony and reception at one place will cut your cost of transportation etc.
7. You can use more greenery and lesser flowers. Additionally, using the seasonal flowers will make you save loads of money, as non-seasonal flowers cost more.
8. You can offer your guests beer, cocktail and wine instead of a whole bar.
9. Treat them with foods like mac and cheese, corn, chicken etc which are loved by everyone and won’t cost you much.
10. Instead of ordering a big and costly wedding cake, you can order a two tier cake and you can keep a supplement cake in the kitchen for guests to have it.
11. If you think to re-use the ceremony flowers for cake cutting, then cost can cut down.
12. For having the photographs clicked, you can hire your favorite photographer in less money. The way is to ask them if they have any associate to do so.
13. Also, you can ask one of your friend/family to click it for you. This will completely cut down the expenditure.
14. For the music, hire that band which will cover both the ceremony and reception.

If you follow above points, you can save a great amount in your wedding, which you can use in other important works.