I am not a bride, or bride to be (yet) but in honor of wedding season I decided to do a wedding blog.
I, like a lot of females who have discovered pintrest, have been pinning away for over a year on our imaginary dream wedding boards.
As of lately I have been thinking a lot more about my actual wedding. I have been reading blogs and trolling DIY websites for ideas. I saw a beautiful and perfect wedding that only cost the bride and groom $2,500 total. Attire included. This is what I want to aspire to. A simple, elegant, affordable wedding that speaks to who Jeremy & I are. I am not asking for to much here, am I?!
With that goal in mind, I started thinking about what we could do to cut down costs. I loosely discussed these things with my boy and he actually liked and agreed with most of these ideas.
We started thinking about what was not essential to make our day happen. A lot of you may gasp at some of these decisions but this is how WE see OUR day.
The first thing that we decided to cut were bridesmaids and groomsmen. I know that we're going to get a lot of grief for this one but really, I feel that for us, it's unnecessary. It also saves us from leaving anyone out or hurting anyone's feelings.
We will be keeping the wedding small at around 50 - 60 for the reception.
The next thing is, there will be no bridal shower, bachelor or bachelorette parties. Neither of us party and I feel like a bridal shower leaves out the groom. I am one of those people who do not believe that the wedding is all about or more about the bride. After all, she's not marring herself. The future groom agrees.
We will not be paying someone to do my hair or make up. I am a very simple girl and I want to portray that on my wedding day. I don't need a fancy $300 hair do or $500 worth of make up caked on my face. That's not the woman my boy fell in love with why would I take a different person down the isle?
We will not be using vendors. No caterer, no wedding planner, no decorator, No mountains of flowers etc... We will be having a serve your self buffet. I am going to do my own bouquet. Due to my allergies having real flowers probably isn't the best idea anyway. I will be decorating my venues the night before. I have a wonderful family that is more than willing to help when the time comes so anything that needs to be done the day of will be taken care of at no extra monetary cost to us.
All of our center pieces, programs and favors will be made and delivered by us.
The dinner wear will most likely be cheaply bought and given a make over by me.
I will be buying all of my materials over a period of time, not all at once.
I am hoping to find a second hand dress. I can not see paying a TON of money on a dress that I will only be wearing for one day. Yes, the dress is important and should be beautiful but there is no reason it needs to cost lots of money.
As long as we're talking about dresses, I will not be buying a reception dress. A lot of thought, work, love, time and money go into finding THE dress for your day. I couldn't imagine changing out of it for the reception.
I am sure we will come up with more over time but this is what we have for now. If you're married, what did you do to cut cost? What did you absolutely NEED? And what was one thing you realized you didn't need after putting out tons of money for it?
I, like a lot of females who have discovered pintrest, have been pinning away for over a year on our imaginary dream wedding boards.
As of lately I have been thinking a lot more about my actual wedding. I have been reading blogs and trolling DIY websites for ideas. I saw a beautiful and perfect wedding that only cost the bride and groom $2,500 total. Attire included. This is what I want to aspire to. A simple, elegant, affordable wedding that speaks to who Jeremy & I are. I am not asking for to much here, am I?!
With that goal in mind, I started thinking about what we could do to cut down costs. I loosely discussed these things with my boy and he actually liked and agreed with most of these ideas.
We started thinking about what was not essential to make our day happen. A lot of you may gasp at some of these decisions but this is how WE see OUR day.
The first thing that we decided to cut were bridesmaids and groomsmen. I know that we're going to get a lot of grief for this one but really, I feel that for us, it's unnecessary. It also saves us from leaving anyone out or hurting anyone's feelings.
We will be keeping the wedding small at around 50 - 60 for the reception.
The next thing is, there will be no bridal shower, bachelor or bachelorette parties. Neither of us party and I feel like a bridal shower leaves out the groom. I am one of those people who do not believe that the wedding is all about or more about the bride. After all, she's not marring herself. The future groom agrees.
We will not be paying someone to do my hair or make up. I am a very simple girl and I want to portray that on my wedding day. I don't need a fancy $300 hair do or $500 worth of make up caked on my face. That's not the woman my boy fell in love with why would I take a different person down the isle?
We will not be using vendors. No caterer, no wedding planner, no decorator, No mountains of flowers etc... We will be having a serve your self buffet. I am going to do my own bouquet. Due to my allergies having real flowers probably isn't the best idea anyway. I will be decorating my venues the night before. I have a wonderful family that is more than willing to help when the time comes so anything that needs to be done the day of will be taken care of at no extra monetary cost to us.
All of our center pieces, programs and favors will be made and delivered by us.
The dinner wear will most likely be cheaply bought and given a make over by me.
I will be buying all of my materials over a period of time, not all at once.
I am hoping to find a second hand dress. I can not see paying a TON of money on a dress that I will only be wearing for one day. Yes, the dress is important and should be beautiful but there is no reason it needs to cost lots of money.
As long as we're talking about dresses, I will not be buying a reception dress. A lot of thought, work, love, time and money go into finding THE dress for your day. I couldn't imagine changing out of it for the reception.
I am sure we will come up with more over time but this is what we have for now. If you're married, what did you do to cut cost? What did you absolutely NEED? And what was one thing you realized you didn't need after putting out tons of money for it?
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