Wedding Money Saving Tips, Ideas and Advice to Reduce Your Wedding Costs

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5. To reduce the price of the cake, purchase the cake from a supermarket or moderately priced bakery, or ask your caterer or bakery if they have standardized designs rather than ordering a customized design. Or locate a friend, local amateur cook or culinary school student who might like to make the cake at a reasonable cost.

Other Wedding Tips

There are many additional expenses to holding a wedding other than those noted above. Some tips on controlling those expenses and protecting against the unforeseen catastrophe include:

1. Enlist the creative talents of your family and friends to pitch in wherever they can to assist you in making your wedding a memorable event that is affordable. Consider throwing a pitch-in party where you invite friends to be part of your wedding by helping you make invitations and centerpieces, assemble favors, etc.

2. Invitations do not need to be expensive. Even custom-made invitations by an outside vendor can be found at a reasonable price. But be sure to get samples and an assurance that your invitations will be the same quality. Consider getting them thermographed instead of engraved to save some money. Order them over the Internet. And make sure you order enough extra invitations to make up for mistakes in addressing and last minute invites. But to save more, consider purchasing invitations at a craft store and printing them yourself with available software programs. Consider including reply postcards instead of traditional cards to save. Include reception information on the invitation instead of separate cards. Use invitations that require only standard postage with respect to both weight and size. If you really want to save, consider using an online invitation web site. Many sites even provide some free online invitations.

3. Consider not having favors and instead have the emcee make an announcement that the couple has made a donation to a specific charity in place of the normal favors. If you do have favors, consider using them as seating or place cards.

4. Plan on making as many of your accessories as possible. It will save you money and probably be more meaningful.

5. While this is not for everyone, if you are considering having your hair done for the ceremony you can save a lot of money by doing it yourself. You won’t run the risk of a hair disaster right before the ceremony, and you will look more like yourself which, after all, is the girl the groom wants to marry.

6. Special transportation for the wedding can cost a bundle and really is not necessary, as compared to other wedding expenses. Who really sees you in the car? Any nice car will do and there will certainly be plenty of friends and family that would volunteer to drive. Perhaps you have a friend with a luxury car or vintage car that would be just perfect.

7. If you are organized, or someone close to you is, and you have the time, you probably do not need a wedding planner or wedding consultant. However, if you are just hiring the wedding planner for good ideas and a timetable of events, a good wedding planner may be helpful and affordable. A good wedding planner may also have relationships with certain vendors that could provide cost savings. But this would usually only be the case with large and expensive weddings. In most cases, while wedding consultants may be worth it, they are expensive.

8. Last but not least, while there is no insurance against common problems that may plague your wedding, insurance is available to protect against freak storms, disreputable vendors, and other types of problems that may occur. One company, WedSafe.com provides coverage on everything from damaged gifts to destroyed wedding gowns. They also insure against canceled weddings due to injury, illness or natural disasters. Premiums range from under $200 to over $400 for coverage up to $50,000. The National Alliance of Special Event Planners provides insurance that will even cover cold feet, with premiums starting at under $200.

The Honeymoon

Now that the wedding has been planned and budgeted, it’s time to plan and pay for the honeymoon. Hopefully, some money is left over from the wedding budget to make this a bit easier. Consider the following ideas, and make sure to look in the “Travel” section of SavingsNut.com for some more tips on how to save on your honeymoon.

1. Try to visit your destination of choice in the off season. This can save plenty in travel, accommodations, food and drink and other extras. On average, the weather might be less inviting, but the crowds may also be less onerous.

2. Try staying closer to home to minimize transportation costs. Look for great locations nearby.

3. Decide if you really want a long honeymoon or if a shorter honeymoon at a nicer place would be more suitable.

4. Try to avoid major resorts that earn a premium just for being well known. Look for more affordable accommodations at lesser known places. For instance, if you are looking for an island honeymoon, find a resort on one of the lesser known islands and it may very well be less expensive. Or consider a nice bed and breakfast that can provide a very unique honeymoon getaway.

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