2nd marriage on the cheap

For my second marriage and my husband's third (!) we wanted a nice ceremony and a "party" but knew we didn't want to spend much.

My dress was from Macy's and is a "cocktail" dress in turquois. I will be able to wear this again for a party or nice dinner or dinner on the cruise we will be going on in June.

Our daughters (16 and 10) were attendants. I found dresses online. One was white with a black print and one was black with a white print. On sale for less than $20 apiece. They did not match but went together beautifully. These are wearable again as they were not really dressy.

The flowers were small. The girls carried 2 (the 16 year old) and 1 (the 10 year old) ribbon wrapped gerbera daisys. My bouquet was gerbera daisys, carnations, button mums and roses all in bright, hot colors. Mine was small only about 9 inches across but was only $45. FOr the reception, I bought potted geraniums ($8.00 apiece) and then got to take some home to plant and gave some to friends to take home.

I work in a high school and asked our photography teacher if he knew a student that could do my pictures. He recommended a girl that had graduated and was working for a studio. For $200 she came for 2 hours, gave us the CD of the 250 pictures and gave us 20 retouched prints!

One more thing - I ordered my wedding band (My engagement ring was my grandmother's 10th anniversary diamond ring) from platinumovernight.com. I got a 2mm platinum band for $160!! We had a jeweler notch out the band to fit my engagement ring. He was surprised at the very good quality of the wedding band at that price.

I made my own invitations using microsoft publisher and plain wedding invitation ($15 for 100 at Michaels).

We spent $2000 dollars and that includes my wedding band, all dresses and a new suit for my husband!

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All brilliant ideas and it sounds like you had a lovely wedding without it costing you a fortune. Thank you for sharing!