How to Significantly Cut Down the Cost of Your Wedding Day

The wedding reception is probably the number one reason why couples blow the majority or their budget and also the number one reason couples go over budget on their wedding day. The first things that you will want to do if you are going to keep your wedding expenses low is don’t invite your entire family. Now this doesn’t mean you leave you sister or brother out of the wedding all together. This simply means you don’t have to invite any and every extended family member to the wedding. Make sure that you take a couple of looks at your wedding guest list because more often than not, this list is able to be trimmed.

Okay, so once your list is cut down to a reasonable size and most of your forth and fifth cousins are off of the list, now you can start taking care of trimming some of the cost of the actual food. One way of doing this is to have a buffet style wedding instead of having waiters and waitresses serve the food to your guests. By doing this you are immediately eliminating the cost of the helpers so that will trim the cost of the entire reception. Your custom aisle runners should have a monogram with wedding date. Buffet style wedding a very common and this will not decrease the ambiance of the wedding at all. If your food is good, believe it or not but the guests will not remember it was buffet style. All they will remember is that the food was good.

There are many different ways that people choose to limit the money that they spend on photography at their weddings. While you want to make sure that every moment is captured during your special day, you also don’t want to blow your entire budget of pictures. One way that people save money is to buy cheaper photography and video equipment themselves and then get a family member to take the pictures at the wedding. Your custom aisle runner should be durable. Sometimes this may back fire by have a relative that has way to much to drink taking the photos so make sure that the person you choose is responsible. Another way to save on photos at your wedding is to buy a bunch of disposable cameras and then have your guests take the majority of the photos. This often works out very well because you get a bunch of candid shots that you may not have gotten with just one person taking the photos. Lastly, you could not have photos at all at your wedding. But this is clearly not what you want because you would want to have as many memories as you can from your wedding.

The last way to decrease what you will spend on your wedding day is to make your own wedding favors. By doing this you will not have to pay an incredible amount of money in order to have a company make the favors for you. Buying an ivory aisle runner could take some time. This really helps out with big wedding of over 200 people or more. A single wedding favor does not cost that much but if you are looking at buying 200 of them, it really starts to add up fast. All you need to do is buy a favor making kit from your local arts and crafts store and this will significantly lower the cost of your favors.