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I plan on having a beautiful wedding on a small budget… way less than $10,000 dollars. I plan on having 100 or so people. So do you think I can pull it off? I truly think it’s very possible! I want to prove to the wedding industry that I can do this! Here is the website that inspired me to have a not so stressful wedding on a budget: http://2000dollarwedding.com/

I’ve already found a wedding reception hall that is way under $1,000 and the place is beautiful. The reception hall will provide us with tables and chairs. I might have to rent chair covers and table cloths. (Which I don’t mind.) The reception hall will also provide us with plates and few other kitchen items.

I think I’m going to recruit a lot of my family members and friends to help me out with the wedding. I want a family oriented wedding where my friends can feel as if their apart of my family. I don’t want a huge expensive show. That’s why I’m choosing to have a DIY wedding reception that looks expensive. Everyone I know is pretty creative. I’m a very crafty person so I plan on making all the wedding favors, wedding programs, boutonnieres, decorations, wedding invites, wedding pillow, etc. I found a beautiful scrapbook in my room that I plan on using for my wedding as a guestbook. The cost: Free! I’ve got beautiful picture frames in my room of my fiance and I. Those pictures will be used at my reception. I even might have my finance and I grow our own flowers for the wedding. The more things that I can make by hand for our wedding, the more money my fiance and I will be saving. Which I believe to be true!

I found a restaurant that caters on great budget. I don’t plan on getting a fancy wedding cake from a bakery. I might just get myself a store bought wedding cake. My moms friend owns a dress shop and she can get me a great deal on a simple wedding dress. I might hire my aunt who takes professional looking pictures in her spare time to be my photographer for the wedding. I also know other people who too are good at photography. I will hire a DJ because my fiance and I love music so much. I think that I will be buying my own liquor for the wedding and having a family member of mine who doesn’t much like to dance be a bartender.

I’m so excited to be planning my wedding with my fiance. I think he’s going to be excited too. Were both crafty people. So we plan on using our imagination for this wedding. I love my fiance so much and I can’t wait for our special day that will occur sometime next summer. Wedding planning for me has been very exciting because I don’t feel so stressed out. My wedding is just one day and it’s day that I want to remember but I also want my family and friends to remember the day as well. When I first started doing wedding research I felt overwhelmed. Now I don’t feel that way thanks to the 2000 wedding budget website!!

So what do you all think of my ideas? Can I pull this off? I think it’s possible to have a beautiful wedding on a small budget. I hope to inspire others also when they plan their wedding. So I want your input?

My wedding budget is 5,000, with a 2,000 honeymoon included. So girl, I KNOW you can do this!!

Have fun, be creative, and don’t stress if everything doesn’t go as planned.

Also, Try sam’s club for flowers if you don’t wind up growing them.

And a plain cake, for 150 people should only cost 150 or so, then YOU get to decorate it. I am putting preserved flowers, and fresh edible petals on mine.

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Not sure…I know my fiance has a lot of family, so accomidating them would important. Thankfully they all live nearby. I want it to be tasteful and elegant, I’m okay if there aren’t many flowers but I don’t know how I feel about fake ones…

Well obvious musts are the marriage license and officiant. Need those just to do the deed!

After that everything is fluff. But your attire and his attire, food, drinks (alcoholic or not), wedding cake (or dessert). Maybe a bridal bouquet and other flowers.

Maybe if a small wedding, have your "reception" at a restaurant and they may have a room seperate.

Don’t know how much you are planning on spending.

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I am more particular for the ff:

Wedding Venue (countryside, outside Metro Manila)
Digital Photography/Videography
Bridal Gown & Female Entourage’s Gown
Groom’s tuxedo & Male Entourage’s Barong
Catering (per plate)

Add:It’s PhP or Philippine Peso for the currency.

You can have a very small tasteful wedding for 150K pesos.

But make it 200K so you’ll have breathing room.

Wedding venue (depending of course to season) can start as small as 30 thousand.

Photography/Videography (based from experience) what my SIL got charged them 50 thousand.

Bridal Party can cost as little as 15 thousand to 60 thousand. Depends on design, details, how many bridesmaids you’re planning to get fitted etc.

Groom and Male Entourage – 15 thousand -25 thousand, again depending on design details and how many groomsmen you have.

Catering/plate – could be as little as 100 pesos. My sil chose buffet. And it cost them about 100K for over 200 guest and that includes the wedding cake.

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I’m the matron of honor in my friend’s wedding. She’s been asking for advice and input, but I don’t have much to offer her. The wedding I planned for myself was on a budget (I did well with the budget, but still it was a budget). Most of the weddings I’ve been to have been rather typical.

Her wedding will be lavish and unique. For example, they’re hiring a jazz band for dinner music and a trumpetter for the recessional.

I guess my brain just doesn’t think in terms of lavish and unique (I’ve always been limited by the $$$). Do you have any ideas I can give her?

Thousands of roses and orchids. Filet, lobster, caviar stations… Gown designed by same person who did Eva’s. Diamond encrusted bridal slippers. Ceremony in a Cathedral, reception at a castle. A wedding cake worth thousands of dollars. Favours – gift bags with watches, spa certificates, clothing, etc.
Wow, it would be so fun to help plan this!

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ok my hubby to be and i are having a firefighter themed wedding in Oct! and hes a fireman full time and im a teller and well we both have children and we are (i am) stuck on how to plan this thing! i can help my friends and family plan their weddings but i just cant seem to do mine! please help!!!!

You should start off by thinking about thigns that are usually associated with firefighers – hydrants, hoses, fire hats, fire trucks, ladders, fireworks (or plastic sparklers), fire extinguishers, etc.
Try to think how you can incorporate all of these things into the wedding and decor. Maybe you could get plastic fire hats, turn them upside down and add flowers to them for your centerpieces. Or, maybe you could do a centerpiece involving hot sauce. You can get old hot sauce bottles and use them as a vase – then add some red and orange flowers. Or something like this:
http://www.riverdalenj.gov/thumbnails/tn-centerpiece.jpg
Or flame lights:
http://www.littlebrightlights.com/site/1435548/page/610933
For your food you can do a spicy theme – chips & salsa, chipotle chicken, etc.
For your cake you can make it red velvet – then have some fire design.
http://www.cake-decorating-corner.com/images/fire-truck-cake-and-wedding-cake-33763.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/2193409755_8d38d11944_m.jpg
You can get a wedding dress that has red accents, like this:
http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?pageSize=96&page=2&style=JD8108
http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?pageSize=96&page=2&style=J1086
http://www.maggiesottero.com/dress.aspx?pageSize=96&page=4&style=A400
The Bridesmaids can wear red dresses with burnt orange sashes.

Here is a link that I found. They have lots of different fireman items here:
http://www.firecatalog.com/store/catalog/

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