Wedding budget?

Question

i wanted to know if anyone knows any good way to save money for a wedding or a good way to make some extra money

Answer 1

Hi, and congrats on your wedding!

There are many ways to save money on the things you need to get for your wedding, the previous posts have many excellent points; I think that what you'd like to know is how to set aside money to save for your wedding, and here's what I suggest. Try to set aside at least $50 a month from your monthly paycheck, and open a new account, solely for your wedding purposes, where both you and your boyfriend/fiance are compelled to contribute. Try to find some part time jobs on the weekends or do some extra jobs, such as catering, or anything you're good at doing (babysitting, dog-walking, etc) to raise some extra money. I recently was selling homemade pies and cupcakes for parties and just for everyday eating, and offered them to my peers, friends and co-workers, I made some good side money!.

Overall, you might not be able to save up the average wedding budget of $20,000 by doing simple things as I mentioned, but that's when you put the other suggestions to the test, and that's when you'll see that even with $2,000, you can do wonders and have a fabulous intimate wedding.

Best of luck!
Melissa T.

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Answer 2

A good way to save money is to find out how talented your family members are.

Do you have anyone in the family who likes to bake, perhaps a wedding cake? JoAnn's Crafts have wedding cake supplies and baking pans.

Does someone in your family love to take vacation pictures and video? See if they can take wedding pictures or video.

Don't have an open bar. Alcoholic beverages can get really expensive. However, make sure that you can find a place that will offer unlimited soft drinks for the guests.

For my wedding dress, I found a seamstress who made my dress at a reasonable price because she used different material than that in the magazine and it still looked the same. You'll only be wearing the dress once so you don't need the heavy duty silk wool material.

At a wedding I attended, they had simple centerpieces. A medium sized fishbowl filled with water and used as a vase to hold a handful of flowers. Simple, but very nice.

Answer 3

Save money by having your wedding on a Friday or a Sunday, insteas of Saturday where the prices are higher.

Get married in the morning and serve brunch instead of lunch, which is more expensive. You can also get married mid-afternoor and have cocktail hour and hors d'ouvres intead of dinner.

Use silk flowers at the church. No one will look up close anyway and no one will remember,

Make the fresh flower bouquet and the boutonier yourself. This is absolutly not hard to do. Get the bouquet idea from the internt and you can buy suplies at your local craft shop.

Have a cash bar instead, Charge one to two dolars per alcoholic beverage and break even or youc an even make a small profit.

Offer soft drinks, and champagne for the toast.

Skip the alcohol altogether and toast with sparkling juice.

Congratulations and good luck.

Answer 4

In order to keep your wedding manageable, here are a few things my husband and I did for our wedding last year:

1) Lengthen the time of your engagement so you can save money. We were fortunate that both our families wanted to pay for it so there were just a few things we needed to buy on our own.
2) Keep your guest list in check. My husband is Greek and he could've easily had over 400 people on his side alone come to the wedding. Instead, both sides invited 70 people each and kept it small.
3) Do your own wedding invitations. It's fun and makes it very personal and memorable.
4) Make sure you DO SPLURGE on the food - serve high quality food, have it be a sit down dinner where your guests are served, and provide a nice open bar for them.
5) If you know someone who can make your cake, call them. I was fortunate that my husband is a pastry chef and he made ours - so beautiful!
6) Keep the centerpieces simple and elegant - we had small square clear vases and filled them with blush roses (about 7) - which actually matched my bouquet.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 5

My wife and I got married on a very modest budget. We didn't really know how to save for the wedding other that to allot so much $$ per paycheck. After the wedding we wound up having double of everything and very limited space to put it all; beds, computers, TVs, entertainment centers, toasters, cars even ... you name it. Just recently we were discussing this topic and we realized that if it weren't for this emotional bond for all of this crap that we had we could have budgeted a lot more for our wedding if we had just sold our junk for quick cash. It only make sense, when you marry nothing is really yours anymore and in some weird way letting go of some of your possessions when coming into bonds with someone is like letting go of you single life.

Answer 6

Put a certain amount of each paycheck into a "wedding account" and to make some extra money, get a second job - that helps out alot!

Answer 7

My fiancee and I are both in college on very small budgets and are paying for our wedding ourselves. We decided to put back $20 each a week, and in one year it'd be a big help. Also, don't be afraid to look in unusual places for wedding items. I didn't want to pay $30 for toasting glasses. I happened to stumble upon the EXACT PAIR I wanted at a goodwill store in brand new condition...instead of paying $30, I paid $2.

You have to decide what's important to you. At first, I wanted to have nice, fancy invitations. After seeing that it's hard to find them for under $300, we got a print them yourself kit for $30. They have these at craft stores and walmart. We saved $270+ that we can use on photography, decorations, or whatever.

Don't let magazines and books "bully" you into thinking you have to spend money you don't have. Your friends know how much money you have, so don't put on "airs" and be all phony on your wedding...be yourselves!

Answer 8

I have been down the aisle x2 and spent maybe 1000.00 for 2. You use what the people own, or rent what ya can. Outdoor or in a park is great. Be creative.Your relationship will last forever but your wedding day is only a formality. I ya cannot have it big, small can be beautiful.

Answer 9

I got my decorations from the Dollar Tree. I bought those fancy looking wine glasses for a $1 each, then got the candles in my color from there. The candles are so many for a dollar. I got the fold-up gift boxes from there (12 come in a pack for $1), got a heart-stamp from Michael's, a purple ink-pad, and stamped the boxes, and wrote our names and the date we got married. I bought candy wrapped in our colors and put the candy in the boxes. You can also use white Christmas lights to help decorate. Also, find out if anyone in your family can take really good pictures, and have them take the wedding pictures. Use whatever resources you have as far as family.

Answer 10

seasonal catering is a good way to make extra bucks. sometimes they will just pay you in cash :D you would be wearing black&white- serving at weddings. so this would also be a great way to pick up ideas for your own wedding. you will also see things close up- so you'll know what you should avoid.
good luck :D