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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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How stressful was/is it for you & your fiance? Was/is your fiance making things seems impossible because of money being limited? Please let me know if any of you are experiencing this. Cause I am! I’m so stressed and frustrated! I only have 2 more months and we’ve been planning since the beginning of the year but the budget is killing me softly. AHhhhh!!

It does make me angry that the wedding industry has become such a money making business that everyone has their hands in the bride’s pockets. And so many of the details are completely unnecessary, but people make brides think they are essential.

My best suggestion involves having someone who has some spare time and is dependable to do some legwork for the bride. This person can look at venues, florists, photographers, etc and get lots of time consuming running around taken care of. Then make a list and let the bride look at the 3-5 best choices and make a decision after speaking to the vendors she’s interested in.

It’s hard to not get so excited that you’ll order things that aren’t necessary, waste time on projects that won’t make a difference. I spoke to a young bride today who decided "to heck" with the fancy invitations. She and her fiance make beautiful invitations themselves. They are charming, show the personality of the couple and are true keepsakes. And they cost less than $1 each, plus postage.

By the time many brides get into the planning, they realize the money is running low because of things people talked them into early on. And that is what is so aggravating for people who’ve "been there, done that."

But please try to relax and enjoy the time until the wedding. Ask yourself "is this necessary" next time someone wants your money. You have to look out for you own budget. Vendors won’t help you. They’re looking out for themselves, at your expense.

I wish you the very best!!!

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Please I need help! My fiancee and I are planning a wedding on a budget and I’m doing this mostly on my own. What usually happens at the wedding reception? I had sort of thought about not dancing, not doing a first dance at all, but I think I want to. I know I will not do the guarder toss but I would like to throw the bouquet and dance with my new husband and my sister who is the maid of honor would like to write a toast. So how does this go? In which order? Thanks so much!!!!!

1- cocktail hour
2- receiving line (optional)
3. 1st dance, parents dance etc.
4. dinner
5. toast and speeches
6. cutting of the cake
7, dancing
8. bouquet toss and GARTER tos9
9. last dance

Good luck

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Hey everyone thanks for taking the time to read this! my fiance and I plan on getting married in August of 2011, which gives us a little over a year to save…our budget is between 6,000&8,000(not including honeymoon bc its taken care of) I have family members, who Dj, Cater, can make the flowers, and Im having the wedding party pay for their own dresses&tuxes! Our guest list is right around 150…Im also not picky about how much my wedding dress costs, has anyone else pulled off a wedding with this budget? Any tips?

You already have so many resources, congratulations! Here a few more ideas:
* Ask friends to photograph your wedding. We had friends who owned great cameras because it was their hobby, and they took pictures for free. Since I love to scrapbook, I made a beautiful album and honestly it was fun to make!
* Make your own invitations. I’ve actually seen elegant, inexpensive invitations you can print out yourself at craft stores (Michaels, Joanne’s), walmart, office depot and target. In the invitations, ask people to rsvp by email or to call you or the person you put in charge of rsvp’s. Don’t forget to ask them to include specific information that you’ll need, such as their names, food choices or diet restrictions (if you need that info for your caterer), and how many people will be attending.
* Buy a smaller, but pretty wedding cake for pictures and the cake cutting, but have sheet cakes in the back to serve to your guests. Inexpensive and pretty cakes are usually found in Chinese bakeries…they’re hidden treasures. I bought a basic three tiered wedding cake that served 150 people for $100. I had over 300 guests, so after we cut the cake, it was rolled into the kitchen where the other sheet cakes were and voila! cake for everyone!!! Once they delivered the cake ($45 to deliver outside their city), my friends decorated it with fresh flowers and it was gorgeous. If you have a chinatown nearby, it’s worth it to check out their bakeries. My brother-in-law pronounced it was the best cake he’d ever had. If the chinese bakeries didn’t work, I would have checked out the Mexican bakeries next.
* Ebay and Craig’s List have great deals on wedding dresses. I found 3 wedding dresses in thrift stores in affluent neighborhoods and had my pick of what to wear. But I ended up finding a new dress in a bridal gown outlet store, which is what I eventually chose to wear. I even bought my bridal attendants their new Jessica McClintock dresses for $10 each at the outlet store. My grandmother’s friend altered my dress for free. I borrowed a friend’s veil.
* My friend did my make-up and hair.
* I researched community centers and found one in an affluent neighborhood, with a beautifully maintained garden beside it, so I had a garden wedding at city government prices. They even had chairs included in the rental… it was a great find. You should check out your county’s parks and rec.
* Are you involved in a church? Maybe talk to the pastor and see if any groups in the church that could help you put together your favors or decorate your reception area. My church greatly helped in this area.

Have I ever regretted cutting corners as I did? No. Our wedding is paid for, and we did not get in debt. It was totally worth it! It was more important to us to share our day with others with joy, and to enjoy our wedding day – which we did! It truly is just one day that goes by in a whirl. Better to concentrate more energy and investment in your marriage, rather than the wedding.

I hope you have a wonderful wedding! Many blessings to you!

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i need your advice and suggestions on how to plan a wedding on a budget of less than 50thou. What are the essential and most important things to prepare? persons to be present? things to be organised? We’re really cutting down the cost .

if it’s goign to be less than 50k, you may opt to do a civil rights and invite only those who are closest to you. however, some churches would normally charge you 10k-25k, church alone. let me list down the things you need to consider when planning a wedding:
- church (make sure the church you choose doesnt charge as much)
- caterer/restaurant
- florist (you can go to dangwa)
- photographer (you may ask a photographer to do only labor, meaning, he will just take pictures and not have the photos printed, instead he will just give you a softcopy of your wedding pics and it’s up to you to have them printed)
- invitation (you may opt an DIY [do-it-yourself] invites)
- souvenir (give-aways) can also be DIY
- entourage (and their gowns) go for gowns for rent
- wedding gown and barong and accessories (rent them as well)
- guestlist (invite only the closest family, relatives and friends) at most 80 guests

actually, it’s going to be really hard planning a wedding with a very tight budget. my brother got married last december on a tight budget of 90k with 100 guests. most of the things were DIY like the invites and souvenirs. but in their case, they had a civil rights and didnt have to book a church.

if you have any other questions or referrals, let me know ‘coz we do plan weddings. last year alone, we planned 3 weddings and this year we’re currently planning 2 weddings. dont worry, i wont charge you for anything. im just not sure of what you really need as of the moment.

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