Families spend a huge amount of money in preparing a wedding. Sometimes you want to spend more on a dress but save on food. And sometimes you want to order a beautiful motorcade, but save money on decorating the hall. It's quite normal. Do not think that if you are saving on a wedding, then you are saving on each other. A young couple who will soon become one family should be able to plan their family budget. And the wedding is the first test and the first global planning for a young couple. People will always love someone and will always want to get married, even with a penny in their wallet.
It is necessary
- - a notebook for recording and calculations;
- - good writing pen;
- - your spending plan.
Instructions
Step 1
Savings on invitations.
How to issue an invitation?
1. You can draw the wedding invitations yourself. Sometimes the childish and simple manner of the drawing decorates it.
2. Create your own layout in Photoshop or other programs and just print in bulk in the printing industry for 4-5 rubles. It's better than buying invitations for 20-30 rubles in a store.
3. Write the required information on the back of your photos. It will be very unusual and pleasant for the recipients. The photo will remain with them forever and will remind them of your wedding and of you.
4. Send a video invitation or an audio invitation by mail. So the guest will feel your presence and get to know you better as a couple.
Step 2
Savings on wedding rings.
This is probably the only item on which it is difficult to save money, but it is still possible.
1. The cheapest option would be classic smooth wedding rings with a width of 2 to 6 mm.
2. You can buy rings made of alloys and cheaper metals such as silver.
3. You can simply forge the rings or make them from an unusual material (but your imagination is already working here).
It must be remembered that this is the only piece of jewelry that will be with you most of your life.
Step 3
Savings on the wedding procession.
And here you can save!
1. You can use the car of your friends and family. Even if the cars are of different brands and colors, then they can be decorated in the same way. How to decorate a wedding procession? For example, using chalk spray paint. Do not worry! It is washed off.
2. One large bus or van will be cheaper to order than several separate cars.
3. Decorate yourself. In showrooms, car decorations will cost more.
Step 4
Savings on the wedding dress and groom's suit.
It would seem that you cannot save here. As far as possible!
1. You can simply put on your mother's or grandmother's dress by changing it. Of course, if you like it.
2. You can buy a regular white dress and decorate it yourself with fabric paints, patches, or simply by covering it with a layer of glitter from an aerosol.
3. Order a dress or suit online. But be careful when choosing the size. Consult the person in charge on the website. Or, if there is a store of the chosen brand in the city, try it on in advance.
4. You can buy a dress and suit on sale or during the most non-wedding period (winter).
5. If you do not need to leave your dress and costume after the celebration as a keepsake, you can rent the dress.
6. When choosing a suit for the groom, choose one in which your beloved spouse will appear on holidays or go to work in the future.
7. You can sew a dress not from silk satin, but from polyatlas, which is much cheaper.
Hair, manicure and makeup can also be done by yourself, spending time on yourself and your loved ones, as well as by trial and error even before the wedding day. Simple wedding hairstyles are now at their peak. A manicure should be natural and gentle.
Step 5
Saving on a wedding bouquet.
They say that you cannot save on it. But florists charge prices. What to do?
1. A bouquet of dried flowers will look great (it will last for a long time and will be easier and cheaper).
2. You can use light bouquets of wildflowers (previously treated with acrylic lacquer). And you can also use flowers from your own dacha, neatly tied with a ribbon.
3. You can prepare the flowers yourself in advance. First, buy glycerin (it is sold in the household departments). Then split the ends of the stems and put them in glycerin like in water. The flowers will look alive, but in fact they will be mummified.
4. You can also make a bouquet not from flowers at all, but from objects that are familiar to you (from soft toys, just a ball pasted over with different beads, buttons, native pieces of fabric, etc., a bouquet with metal elements is suitable for a themed wedding).
5. Order a bouquet of seasonal flowers - they are cheaper.
Step 6
Savings on the wedding banquet.
Remember that your celebration is not just a meal, but a banquet hall and an evening in a restaurant are already a tradition.
1. Look for a place for a banquet where you can bring your slices, cake, alcohol (after all, in a cafe or in a restaurant it is usually more expensive).
2. Remember that off-site banquets are much more expensive than in the restaurant itself. The compromise is to choose a cafe or restaurant with an open veranda. Or you can arrange a celebration at your dacha, if there are not many guests and you want to celebrate in a familiar atmosphere. Give fantasy to your creativity and trust the help of your friends.
3. If you want a celebration in an easy mode and without a heap of guests and a big celebration with contests, you can order a buffet in the banquet hall of the registry office.
3. Choose an institution farther from the city center and less famous. Usually such establishments are more expensive.
4. Late autumn, winter and early spring are traditionally a “low season” for the restaurant business. If you are planning a wedding during this period, bonuses, promotions and discounts await you.
5. Book and rent the room in advance. So you can get discounts.
6. Don't invite all the guests. Especially it is not worth being at the celebration for those who are simply inconvenient not to invite - the bosses, the necessary acquaintances, the acquaintances of acquaintances. This is your wedding after all.
7. You can also refuse exquisite feast dishes by revising the banquet menu, reduce the number of changes of dishes; buy not French, but Russian wines, use expensive champagne only at the beginning of the ceremony, and then switch to Russian; refuse, for example, dessert.
8. On weekdays, rent will be cheaper.
Step 7
Savings on the decoration of the banquet hall.
Remember that you are the main decoration!
1. You can save money on the fact that it is not necessary to decorate the hall with fresh flowers.
2. You can decorate the room with your items from home - something familiar, your photographs.
3. Make jewelry out of handy items. For example, just pull a white fabric into the hoop and you will get beautiful garlands from them.
4. You can simply decorate with garlands, LEDs. For example, stretch a fabric on the ceiling and stretch a large garland over it (you get a starry sky).
5. If you are celebrating somewhere in the country, then you can paint the fence with commemorative graffiti.
Step 8
Savings on guest stars.
Festive script is important, but not scary!
1. It is not worth saving on the leader. The only way to save money is to know that the presenter is good for a small fee, or to find a presenter - an acquaintance. Check out the case leader. Attend one of the celebrations he is hosting and control the script.
2. If you cannot hire a presenter, then contact the administrator of the cafe in which you are organizing the celebration: young, novice animators will gladly fulfill this role. And more often the cafe has its own musicians, presenters.
3. Children's performances, funny contests organized independently will help make the wedding cheaper, but no less interesting.
4. For musical design, you can hire a novice singer (s). This will brighten your holiday.
5. You can hire a small dance group for several numbers as entertainment, if you do not need contests (after all, you need a presenter to hold them).
6. You can celebrate a wedding together with a city holiday by participating in contests right with everyone.
Step 9
Savings on photographers and videographers.
1. You should not refuse the services of a professional photographer. But you can do without a long photo session (for example, a registry office, a park and some unusually decorated area). Ask your family and friends to take interesting photos during the banquet.
2. Try to contact a young, not promoted photographer and videographer. Look carefully at all of his work and read reviews. Or maybe he's a genius? But not so popular yet.
3. Ask about all possible discounts and ask your friends about familiar photographers and videographers (get a discount on acquaintance).
4. Take a closer look at the payment method (more often it is hourly, but there are also surprises).
Step 10
Savings on honeymoon travel.
Traveling is also part of the wedding.
1. Buy hot deals immediately after the celebration and track the travel market in advance.
2. Check out possible discounts in hotels for newlyweds.
3. Ask to give you "cherished envelopes" before the wedding.
4. Travel to countries where the level of income per unit of population is lower.
5. Try to travel around Russia - it's interesting and enjoyable. Visit famous monasteries, museums, resorts and recreation centers, swim in the most famous seas and lakes of our country. Russia is more beautiful and more than we think. And it will not yield to all of Europe taken together.
