| Your wedding day is an important event in your | | | | Wedding Venue - Discuss with your friends and family |
| husband-to-be and your life. It is more usual these days | | | | and see if they have somewhere you could hold your |
| that the bride and groom fund the wedding, although | | | | wedding. It may be your uncle or aunt has a large |
| sometimes parents will contribute too, so managing a | | | | family house in the countryside with large grounds or a |
| wedding on a budget is more important and should be | | | | friend has access to a restaurant and so on. You |
| part of your early wedding planning so you know what | | | | could have a beautiful wedding at a more personal |
| you have to spend. | | | | location and achieve more flexibility on timings and |
| There is no reason why you cannot have a wonderful | | | | cost. |
| wedding on a budget, it just needs some imagination | | | | Where practical, have both the ceremony and the |
| and planning well in advance. | | | | reception in one place to minimise your cost. It all |
| Your Guests - Invite people that are closest to you | | | | depends on what you are planning to do. When |
| both and those people who would be happy to attend | | | | decorating the venue, keep the use of flowers to a |
| the ceremony. Parents, immediate family and best | | | | minimum and compliment them with candles, balloons, |
| friends are good. A wedding is a personal affair and it | | | | and ribbons. |
| should be shared with those who are close to the | | | | Wedding Food - If you choose a catering company to |
| bride and the groom. | | | | manage the food at your wedding, it can work out |
| Invitations - In your wedding planning consider the | | | | very expensive as they tend to charge per head. At |
| various options available. It could be you or a close | | | | the start of your wedding planning contact your family |
| friend design your own invitations and print them out or | | | | and close friends and see if any of them are willing to |
| email them. Alternatively explore local printers and | | | | help with the cooking for your wedding. If a number of |
| stationary stores and compare prices for the designs | | | | people agree to provide different food items and |
| you like and fit with your big day. | | | | maybe one of them is great cake maker and |
| Your Attire - Consider buying second hand wedding | | | | decorator, you have another option and they will take |
| attire for yourself and your partner. Alternatively, look | | | | responsibility for catering. |
| online for special offers, you can find some wonderful | | | | Drinks - In your wedding planning also consider the |
| outfits at better prices than in the shops. | | | | drinks for the day, consider having champagne or |
| Flowers - As part of your wedding planning find out | | | | similar for the toast and other drinks for the rest of the |
| what seasonal flowers are available around your | | | | time to keep costs at a sensible level. |
| wedding date, as these will be much more inexpensive. | | | | |