Low budget wedding. Advice??

Re: Low budget wedding. Advice??

• hvo2

  

  May 2013

  This may be too late, but you can make your own invitations. I am planning to do my own flowers for my wedding. I am planning to use hydrangeas since they have really big blooms. Your bridesmaids boquets would only need about two blooms, and you can do 3 or 4 for yours. They also come in a variety of colors and are available year round. You can order them in bulk at Sam's club for fairly cheap. Hope that helps.

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• fearlessbrideMI member

  

  June 2013

  If you want to have a meal think outside the box...we're having our wedding at my cousins home and reception in the "backyard" (it's hundreds of acres)...but we are on a tight budget and our guest list keeps growing...we've decided to embrace our budget and our outdoor/rustic venue and we're doing a BBQ meal...not hamburgers & hotdogs but pulled pork, pulled chicken mini buns to make sliders if you want, Mac and cheese, potato salad, coleslaw, fresh roasted veggies, veggie pasta salad and roasted corn. We found someone who does this and pig roasts and they are fabulous and a fraction of the cost of many "caterers" who mainly only do hamburgers and hotdogs.

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• AmyS2645 member

  

  June 2013

  I agree with @fearlessbrideMI, if you're going to do a meal, think outside the box. I read a post some time ago from someone that I thought had a wonderful food idea for a wedding on a budget. They ordered rotisserie chickens and cakes from their local grocery store and rounded out the menu with a couple of sides, salads and nonalcoholic beverages. That sounds delightful to me as a guest and as a hostess. I've never had a bad rotisserie chicken, and the cost of that menu compared to a caterer is so much smaller. I think the grocery store charged the couple an extra $25 to cut the chickens and place them on platters too which is pretty inexpensive.

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• fearlessbrideMI member

  

  June 2013

  Oh that's the other thing we aren't having alcohol...and *gasp* our guests will be eating off of plastic plates with plastic "silverware". Just embrace and work with the budget you have get creative and remember this is your wedding and as long as you and FI are happy with it that's all that matters (as a guest I can barely tell you one detail of the last 3 weddings I've been to in the last two years).

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