Once we finally set the date . . . . . we only gave ourselves ten months to plan . . . go figure.
Anyone have any money saving tips? Secrets to not pulling your hair out? Great ideas to make it a FUN party instead of dreading hours of speeches?
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Once we finally set the date . . . . . we only gave ourselves ten months to plan . . . go figure.
Anyone have any money saving tips? Secrets to not pulling your hair out? Great ideas to make it a FUN party instead of dreading hours of speeches?
I have a big ole congratulations for you :flower:
I have no advice - we chose to buy a house instead of spend money on a wedding so we live in sin and probably always will :o
That's plenty of time. We planned ours in 3 months as when we started planning all the families started fighting so we said screw it and instead of waiting the year got married 3 months later. Way less stress, no drama from family and way less fighting!!! lol
My only advice is that when things start to get crazy remember why you guys are getting married. Don't let the drama of others get to you!
LMAO!!!!!! No worries. I also live in sin having an almost two year old child with the man. The fact that we didn't gget married the second we found out I was pregnant devastated our grandparents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Inspired by Reggio
Me too ...... Lived in sin with first spouse for 11 years and 2 kids and now with the second one for 9 yrs and three kids ..... Look at all the money I saved on weddings and divorces ; )
Congratulations. We got married in the evenning and then had a cocktail party immediately after in the same location. With dancing after the cocktail reception. Saved money on the venue then saved a bit by not serving a full meal, just hors deuves then cake and coffee later in the evenning. Have fun!
CONGRATS!!!!!
Depends on what you want...do you want the big everything?! Or are you keeping it simple?
We saved on:
-finding a venue that we could take our pictures at, and they included: our meal, everything needed for dinner - chairs, tables, linens, cutlery, etc.
-not having a limo and getting nice rental cars
-making our own bouquets - with fake flowers (bought at Michael's with 40% off coupons)
-again from Michael's, using coupons...bought the invitations and did them ourselves
-no videographer (sp)
One thing to splurge on is finding an amazing photographer. It's well worth the money - believe me, cause we didn't....
PM me if you have any questions, or need help! I love planning our wedding. Everything was done a month prior to our wedding so that I wouldn't stress.
Yah.....soooo exciting! As play and learn says, everything depends on what you are after! Fancy over the top princess? Intimate family gathering? Backyard BBQ? We had an outdoor ceremony and an elegant lunch reception for 45 at a historic inn. We are both fairly old (ha ha) and our daughter was 5 months at the time and we really didn't want to spend our life savings. It was simple but very romantic and we paid cash so have no 'after party' regret! My best advice is to make it all about the 2 of you and let any unwanted opinions slide off your back! I live in the GTA too and got married less than 2 years ago so feel free to pm if you want to know anything that we did.
One piece of advice - it's YOUR wedding. Do it as you'd like it, not for others' expectations. If you don't want a zillion speeches, leave a video camera out for people to record, and for you to watch later. We spend 5k on our wedding total, including the dinner, reception hall, dress and tux. It's easy - just don't be extravagant. Look on pinterest for very cool ideas for decorating etc.
Congrats!
We are doing this too. Wedding food sucks anyways lol. hor deurves and dessert it is!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ECE53
I'll be sure to check out pinterest. never looked at the site before but everyone is raving about it
I missed this somehow... :ohmy:
Congrats, first of all.
We did a very low key wedding, and our friends are still raving about how much fun it was.
The one thing that is a good splurge is a photographer. I wish we had a better one, but what do you do. We had the meal catered, but made all the desserts for the dessert bar ourselves. My mom and I had a marathon baking day, and the mom-in-law pitched in too. CostCo has really good prices on trays of meat, cheese, desserts, etc.
My dress was fairly inexpensive and we rented the guys suits. We had our wedding and the reception in the same place, and it was a little town hall in a TINY town right by ours. I think we paid $300 for the whole rental? If you can, get family and friends to do as much as possible. Think: bartenders, servers, dj, and so on.
And you can absolutely make the bouquets and stuff yourself. Watch for those 40% off coupons for Michaels and go nuts!!
Have fun!!!
I don't know where you live but a beach wedding is cheaper and so gorgeous. My youngest daughter is getting married next year and she and her boyfriend are eloping to Jamaica to a Sandal's resort so they get their wedding and honeymoon all in one package. Otherwise, they figured they wouldn't have a honeymoon for years.
My oldest daughter was married in a pretty ceremony, then we had a dinner at a great restaurant and it was small, but we all paid for our own dinners. I had a cake and made finger foods in the afternoon at my house between the ceremony and the dinner. If you want to save money it just takes imagination and creativity.
Congratulations!
Having a wedding party is always great... Maybe establishing some kind of a special event where you could bring some friends and relatives? There are great sheffield bands for hire, recommend them a lot. They played very professionaly at my wedding.
Wedding time... That is so cool! Please take my congratulations :3
Just do not forget that... "How will you name your ship -- thus he will swim across oceans". So how you will start and end your party -- thus your marriage will be good or bad in the future.
Personally, I wish that everything will be good and fine with you. And your marriage.
By the way, how did everything pass with your wedding? Next summer I will have my wedding with my dear too, and we are looking for services on how to organize the party. For instance, right now we already asked Services4Party to help us with that and they agreed.
Will update the post when everything will pass.