Comments on: 10 Ways to Leverage Your Wedding Budget http://www.fiscalfizzle.com/2009/03/10-ways-to-leverage-your-wedding-budget/ Spicy Thoughts on Personal Finance Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shannon http://www.fiscalfizzle.com/2009/03/10-ways-to-leverage-your-wedding-budget/#comment-4018 Shannon Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:59:57 +0000 http://www.fiscalfizzle.com/?p=443#comment-4018 Great blog! I would like to share some things we did for our October 2008 wedding: * Skipped out on the chuch wedding singer, saving $250. * Ordered my dress online. It's risky, but a coworker recommended it. I saved $200-300 and the dress arrived in only 6 weeks! * Seriously limited the guest list. We purposefully booked a smaller than average venue (the club where we live, so it was free!) in order to avoid an "empty" feeling since we had fewer guests. * Instead of spending $800 on professional DJ service, a coworker recommended a part-time DJ friend of hers who did it for $300! * Designed and printed our own somewhat elaborate stationary, menus, place cards, etc. and saved an estimated $1000. * Completely eliminated flowers from the wedding reception and instead created our own candle centerpieces, complete with sand from the local beach set in various size hurricane glass vases from Wal-Mart. Average cost was $8-10 per table (4-6 people per table) and everyone loved them! * Purchased sand dollars in bulk online and tied our homemade name cards to them with inexpensive ribbon. These doubled as our wedding favors and were also a hit! On a side note, we attempted to save money on the honeymoon by booking a cruise since we live within driving distance of the port (instead of flying somewhere). In the end, all the extra "hidden" cruise costs added up to several hundred dollars and I don't think we saved a penny. Great blog! I would like to share some things we did for our October 2008 wedding:

* Skipped out on the chuch wedding singer, saving $250.
* Ordered my dress online. It’s risky, but a coworker recommended it. I saved $200-300 and the dress arrived in only 6 weeks!
* Seriously limited the guest list. We purposefully booked a smaller than average venue (the club where we live, so it was free!) in order to avoid an “empty” feeling since we had fewer guests.
* Instead of spending $800 on professional DJ service, a coworker recommended a part-time DJ friend of hers who did it for $300!
* Designed and printed our own somewhat elaborate stationary, menus, place cards, etc. and saved an estimated $1000.
* Completely eliminated flowers from the wedding reception and instead created our own candle centerpieces, complete with sand from the local beach set in various size hurricane glass vases from Wal-Mart. Average cost was $8-10 per table (4-6 people per table) and everyone loved them!
* Purchased sand dollars in bulk online and tied our homemade name cards to them with inexpensive ribbon. These doubled as our wedding favors and were also a hit!

On a side note, we attempted to save money on the honeymoon by booking a cruise since we live within driving distance of the port (instead of flying somewhere). In the end, all the extra “hidden” cruise costs added up to several hundred dollars and I don’t think we saved a penny.

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