"Planning a Wedding on a
Small Budget Guide"

Your guide to the ins and outs of planning a wedding

Your wedding is one of the moments in your life that you will never forget so plan it carefully. Here are some of the most important things that you should consider when you are planning your wedding - Wedding Photographers, Wedding Cakes, Wedding Caterers, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Music, Wedding Reception Site Fee. See the end of the page for more detail.

Planning a Wedding on a Small Budget

You don’t want to wait until you can afford it. You want to get married now but you want a real wedding with guests yet all you can afford is five minutes in front of the justice of the peace. You want a lot. You can have a lot. When you’re planning a wedding on a small budget, you have to be creative, clever, smart and organized.

If you haven’t purchased the ring or rings yet, one of the most economical ways to do so without going into debt is through a pawn shop. Pawn shops always have a big selection of wedding rings. That seems to be the first thing to go when people fall on hard times. Reputable pawn shops are picky about the jewelry they accept. It must be real gold and the diamonds have to be real also. They won’t accept cubic zirconia. Since they only loan about a tenth of the value on jewelry, they don’t have to mark up the price much when people fail to pick them up.

If you’re planning a wedding on a small budget, you have to look at all the expenses and see where you can compromise. Think about the flowers. Who said the bride and the bridesmaids have to carry an entire bouquet? Think of the savings if they only carry one flower. Simply elegant.

One woman who was planning a wedding on a small budget hit the jackpot. She had been toying with the idea of having a garden wedding but didn’t have the garden in which to hold the wedding. What she needed was a friend or relative with beautiful landscaping. She had noticed a particular house with lush landscaping full of flowers and bushes had been on the market for some time. She figured it hadn’t sold because it was so expensive.

Planning a wedding on a small budget gave her a courage she didn’t know she had because she approached the realtor for the property she was admiring and proposed a deal. She explained about her upcoming wedding and said how she had long admired the property and asked the realtor to ask the owner if she might hold her wedding there. She offered a small deposit, promised to clean up and also promised that her friend at the newspaper would do a write-up about the whole thing.

To her surprise, the owner agreed! She was ecstatic. She received the rental of the chairs and the folding tables as a gift and borrowed and crafted and drafted everyone she knew to help her. Sure enough, the following weekend her “wedding story” appeared on the front page of the Sunday paper’s “Living” section, complete with photographs of the lush gardens and beautiful house. To her delight, the house sold two weeks later.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This woman’s story proves that. Not only did she get a free place in which to hold her wedding, but the paper’s photographers took a truckload of pictures. When she was planning a wedding on a small budget, she was creative, clever, smart and organized. You can be too!

Wedding Planning
Here are the details on some of the most important things that you should consider:

Wedding Planning - Photographers
First you should hire a photographer who is specialized in wedding photography, because they are experienced in wedding procedure and make sure they are familiar with your reception sites and ceremony. This will allow him/her to capture all the special moments by anticipating your next move and being at the right time in the proper place.

Wedding Planning - Caterers
For hors d’oeuvres there are many options depending on your reception formality and the type of food that are served at the meal. Hors d’oeuvres will be offered to your guests during the first reception hours if you will serve a full meal during the reception. However, at a cocktail reception or a tea the main course will be hors d’oeuvres.

Wedding Planning - Flowers and Florists
Wedding flowers will add beauty, color and fragrance to every aspect of your wedding, and like everything else they should fit your color scheme and style. Five Star Floral Design and Events, Ingela’s Floral Design, Nancy Liu Chin Design, Las Vegas Florists, Fleurs de France, Suzanne M. Smith Design, Pacific Event Productions, Twice Touched Treasures Floral Preservation, Bouquets of Del Mar and Leilani Creations are some of the specialist that could help you plan the event.

Wedding Planning - Music
This is one of the most important elements for a successfully wedding planning. Music sets the tone for a lavish wild party or for an elegant and romantic affair. One of the newest books that could help you in the process of selecting your wedding music is The Ultimate Guide to Wedding Music from Wedding Solutions Publishing, Inc.

Reception Site Fee
There are two types of reception sites. One may charge a per person fee which includes food, tables, silverware, china, facility and so forth, and another may charge a room rental fee and you will have to provide the food, linens, possibly tables and chairs and beverages.
Good luck with your wedding planning and make this event the most happiest of your life!
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