Have a wedding budget that's all soda-pop-and-bread, but you can't stop swooning over a champagne-and-truffles kind of celebration?
Don't fret - you're about to expertly combine "beautiful" and "affordable" in your wedding planning, because you'll discover 8 creative, fun and smart ways to pull off a blockbuster wedding on a tight budget!
1. Choose a wedding location that offers discounted space on a weekday or weeknight and book it for 25% to 50% off, depending on the facilities they offer. These times are typically in low demand, so most vendors, especially in small towns or remote/suburban locations, will readily consider a better wedding venue rental rate.
2. If you're having a religious church or temple ceremony, try and plan it around a festive time of year, such as a major holiday or after someone else's wedding. This way, your place of worship will already be gussied up for the main event, and you'll only need to weave in some wedding trimmings or small wedding accents to complement the existing decor.
3. Opt for romantic, cost-effective and simple touches, if you're planning to wed in a church or similar religious venue, by saving on artificial lighting and air conditioning costs. Plan for a short and intimate ceremony at dusk inside the premises, and get married by candlelight! It's gorgeous and offers great soft lighting for flattering photographs. Plus, it's romantic and easy on the pocket!
4. Call up your favorite restaurant and ask for frequent diner benefits. If you can't rent the full restaurant, you can reserve a private room, or even the back garden if the landscaping is pretty, for hosting the ceremony and maybe a bit of dancing!
5. Check with the local city park authorities whether they issue permits for hosting wedding celebrations. Some have fountains, covered patios or arbors that can be easily transformed into beautiful and cheap wedding venues with a bit of clever outdoor wedding decor, such as paper lanterns, snow spray, reflective wall art and so on.
6. Other great budget wedding venues you can ask about are local theaters and performance halls. Apart from being dramatic and unique, these can provide a historical or contemporary backdrop for planning theme weddings. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is a fantastic wedding venue for local residents who get a discount on the rental rates! Or, if you live in a town boasting one of those retro movie theaters, plan your wedding ceremony here to add some unusual variety-show charm and get married on stage!
7. If you were lucky enough to go to college at one of those campuses full of stately, architecturally-significant period buildings, why not find out about cheap hall rentals? Rates are usually lowered for alumni! Ivy-fringed halls, grand chapels and even some modern educational buildings, like those created out of renovated industrial structures, make for unusual and affordable wedding venues!
8. Need to keep a wide variety of wedding guests amused at your wedding? Why not plan it next to a fairground or amusement park (avoid peak hours for best prices) to ensure your wedding guests are suitably entertained and that affordable refreshments are close at hand, too!
9. For a cool mix of history, local lore and adventure, arrange a nature ramble to the old mill or barn owned by family/friends and host the wedding there. Or book the famous beer brewery in town and prepare to give your wedding guests an 'ale' of a time!!
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