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This TabStart page features a hand-selected collection of the best wedding websites that feature ideas for planning a wedding on a tight budget. Many of these outstanding online resources offer lists of tips to help you shave costs for different elements of your big day. So, if you're committed to spending a lot of money on food and drinks for instance, you could use these wedding hints to help you save on flowers and decor. Also, you will find message boards below in which other brides discuss strategies for sticking to a tight budget while still creating a gorgeous wedding ceremony and reception.
From guest lists to menus to transportation, these websites offer classy ideas that will help you stick to a tight budget as you plan your big day.
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Wedding Ideas on a Tight Budget - This page from Bridal Guides magazine features a number of great tips for planning your florals, favors, linens, food and drinks (and much more) on a tight budget. For instance, ask your florist if the ceremony's altar decoration can be used at the reception. Or, ask your mother or grandmother to bake one of your favorite childhood treats to serve as a dessert.
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Ideas for Planning a Wedding on a Tight Budget - This wedding resource offers a veritable trove of terrific ideas and tips for planning a beautiful wedding on a tight budget. You can order a small wedding cake for the display table, and you can use a large sheet cake to serve guests. Rather than hiring an expensive florist, you can contact a local floral design school to help you with flower arrangements. There are many more helpful ideas here that will help you plan an affordable wedding.
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Wedding Tips for Sticking to a Tight Budget - This Bridal Guides magazine article offers a list of tips and hints that will help you stick to your budget. For example, make sure you read the fine print to know when minimum payments are due and if there are fees for wine corkage or cake cutting; don't plan your wedding to impress others; and, don't invite more guests than you can afford to have.
Wedding flowers and decorations can quickly add up. Use these online resources to learn how to save money on these costly items.
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Weddings on a Tight Budget: Saving Money on Flowers and Decor - Brides magazine features this page of do's and don'ts to help you save money and plan your wedding on a budget. Some of the budget-friendly tips include buying candles in bulk, using bridesmaid's bouquets at the reception, and weaving herbs and branches into floral arrangements to use fewer flowers.
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Elegant Weddings Flowers on a Tight Budget from Martha Stewart Weddings - This slideshow from Martha Stewart Weddings features a coterie of sumptuous flower arrangement ideas that will help you stick to your budget. For instance, use baby's breath for your wedding ceremony's garland; make centerpieces out of miniature daises and doily-shaped Queen Ann's lace; and arrange lone stems in a variety of vases to create lovely tablescapes.
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Wedding Flower Ideas for a Tight Budget - This article from Garden Guides supplies three prudent ideas for choosing weddings flowers that will help you adhere to a tight wedding budget. Use flowers that are in season; shop for flowers locally; and consider silk or paper flowers as opposed to their fresh counterparts
Some of the very best wedding tips and ideas don't come from magazines or blogs but rather from other brides. Check out what other people did to save money while planning unique and memorable weddings.
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The Knot's Forum on Cutting Costs at a Wedding - Browse through the Knot's forum thread in which brides discuss strategies for sticking to tight budgets and cutting costs. One of the most popular ideas is buying flowers in bulk and creating centerpieces, bouquets, and boutonnieres yourself.
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Brides Magazine Forum Thread on Wedding Planning with a Tight Budget - There are myriad ideas here in Brides magazine's forum thread on planning a wedding on a tight budget. A great number of former brides and brides-to-be offer advice and tips for helping you plan a gorgeous and affordable ceremony and reception.