Slash Your Wedding Expenses

Plan to save on wedding expenses to eliminate future debt . Your wedding can be pricey if you aren’t careful . Before you realize it you’re buying a lot more than you should have . You won’t live happily ever after with that sort of beginning. Below are 12 saving tips for your wedding to allow you to cost expenses .

1. Plan a budget when planning your wedding and be sure to follow it.

2. Decide on the number of guests you want to invite and don’t increase it.

3. Have the wedding out-of-doors at the household of a friend , at the park or a community center that can be rented fairly cheap .

4. Serve food in a a buffet style and have family and friends bring a covered dish .

5. Buy a cupcake wedding cake instead of a multiple layer cake .

6. Print your own invitations and thank you cards printed on your computer. That helps slash the cost of paying a professional printer. Buy an inexpensive computer program or see if you have a program already on your current computer.

7. This favorite wedding tip saves big when you focus on a single strategy of savings but can be used multiple times: Negotiate Prices! Often all you need to do is request a percentage off the regular price . Many vendors will drop prices if they think you will buy at a competitor. A saving of any amount reduces your expense so don’t be afraid to ask .

8. Shop at a consignment outlet or purchase a slightly used wedding dress. Most dresses have only been worn one time so you can get a great buy on a dress that is practically brand new and looks it too.

9. Do as many projects as possible such as making your own: favors, ring pillows, flower arrangements, wedding veil and other accessories.

10. Purchase online at Amazon or discount sites like eBay and Craig’s List.

11. Have an friend handy with a camera take pictures and avoid a expensive professional photographer.

12. Shop hard for honeymoon savings . Find bargains online , borrow a friends condominium and use frequent flyer miles.

Try some or all of these saving tips for your wedding and you should reduce your cost. A wedding without lingering debt is a great way to start a marriage .

Cheap Save The Date Wedding Cards

You can keep your wedding budget and your bank account happy with this creative tip for cheap save the date wedding cards.  You want to let everyone know about your wedding date well in advance so that your guests will be able to “Save The Date”.  However, if you’re on a wedding budget you don’t want to spend a lot of money on these cards.  Face it, by the time you pay for printing and postage, you can be several hundred dollars into your wedding budget before the actual planning of the wedding even begins.

Here’s an inexpensive, actually free, tip for notifying all of your guests to save the date for your wedding. Send the announcement online as an ecard!  This is totally appropriate and something that more and more brides are using as the popularity of the internet and email continues to grow.   You won’t be breaking any wedding etiquette with save the date ecards!

There are several sites online that allow you to send your save the date wedding cards for free.  One of our favorites is Rattlebox.  You can email the ecards to your friends and family right from the site, or you can send the Url of your ecard to everyone in your email address book from your own email server.

They also give you the coding to add the ecard to your Facebook and My Space pages.

You can get more cheap wedding ideas like this from A Budget Wedding Guide “Budget Wedding Planning Tips” ebook.   You can download this free report immediately by submitting your name and email address in the box on the top right side of this page.

Your Wedding Budget – Budgeting Wedding Day Costs

Your Wedding Planning Budget – Budgeting Wedding Day Costs

Getting married is a very big responsibility at the best of times and all of your family and friends want you to have the best possible chance of a very long and happy life together. You do not plan your wedding budget around the needs of your guests. Your priority is to plan a wedding budget which gives you alone the best possible wedding day without putting yourselves into a highly stressed out state, worrying about the wedding budget.

So when it comes to wedding planning and budgeting, define a wedding budget plan that you can reasonably afford and stick with it. Sure, a lavish wedding is all well and good with all the Read more