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the best way to keep the price down is by keeping it small (100 guest) and choosing an day and time that is less popular. Afternoons, Sundays and Late fall through early spring are cheapest.
The way we are saving money for our wedding is my FH is moving in to my house (i live at home with my parents still) we are car pooling to work. we paid off any out standing bills or loans. And im trying not to use my Credit cards. My wedding is not till next May we got engaged in Feb and about 2 weeks or so we started booking things. We thought of us it was better to did a package deal with the limos video and photo invitions. We booked the dj. We want to have the wedding pretty much paid before it happens so we arent stressing over the $$... Good Luck. It sure aint easy out there.
Posted by sarahradio5
ING Direct! You can build some SERIOUS interest from now until then. And you get $25 for opening an account! (FM me for the link). Just keep feeding money into that account and you can make 4% interest! So, if you put $10,000 in an account, you'll make 400 more bucks in a year... that can pay for your invitations!
Also, if you have to cut corners, do it on something that isn't forever. Don't cut back on photography or videography since that's the stuff you'll have forever.
Posted by sarahradio5
ING Direct! You can build some SERIOUS interest from now until then. And you get $25 for opening an account! (FM me for the link). Just keep feeding money into that account and you can make 4% interest! So, if you put $10,000 in an account, you'll make 400 more bucks in a year... that can pay for your invitations!
Also, if you have to cut corners, do it on something that isn't forever. Don't cut back on photography or videography since that's the stuff you'll have forever.
We decided what was most important and skipped other things, like we're not having limos and we're programming the music oursleves and just hired an 'MC'. We picked the least expensive nice hall we could find, even though we wanted it at a different place originally. The hall saved us so much we were able to add a few extras we didn't think we'd originally be able to have and we kept it under 100 people. We also picked a Sunday. I also worked extra overtime.
make your own invitations and favors and any other little things you want to add as your personal touch DO IT your self
Keep the guest list down. We're doing a Sunday brunch which cut the price down dramatically. We're also not doing flower centerpieces. I got nice candle ones on E-bay. We're also doing our own music via Itunes and our laptop.
FH and I keep a shoe box that I wrapped in pretty wedding paper and each week we put $20 bucks each in it.. if we have more, we put in more.. it really adds up!!!
To save money, look for an afternoon. Even late April which can be beatuiful is cheaper than June. Skip the MC that goes with the DJ. Don't get parent albums from the photographer. Only have 1 limo, not a entourage. Skip out on the Rolls Royce you'll only be in for 30 minutes out of the 3 hours.
