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I keep hearing great ways you are all saving money on your wedding day.
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The Broke Bride





My husband to be and I have now delayed our wedding 2yrs in a row due to financial circumstances. It seemed everytime we would get 2 steps ahead we would ...
Don't over pay for your Wedding Gown !





I searched the Internet and Bridal stores for months for the perfect affordable wedding Gown and time upon time I came across websites (Ebay too)that seemed ...
Wedding Photography For Less!





We are having a hard time keeping costs down for our wedding but are finding MANY ways to think outside of the box.
Our most recent money saver was ...
Cheap n cheerful wedding not cheap and nasty





I'm getting married next June and unfortunately I am on a very limited budget.
I've tried cutting costs by approaching 1 or 2 companies and asking ...
Great Cheap Wedding Venue - Public Parks can be Posh!





My fiance and I live in Los Angeles and needless to say, it's a ridiculously expensive place to get married. Most oceanview venues in our area charge ...
Our DIY Beach Wedding





My fiance and I are on an extremely limited budget for our wedding -- so we're doing pretty much EVERYTHING we can ourselves. We are having our ceremony ...
Cheap Barn Wedding





Probably the cheapest idea I've had was deciding to forgo the beautiful hotel with the chandeliers and have our reception in a barn. Our wedding is set ...
The least expensive wedding decor!





After months of preparation, I had a perfect, gorgeous, and outrageously expensive looking wedding.
Expensive looking are key words here. I spent time ...
My wedding under $800




I have not seen anyone do a break down like this so here you are.
My wedding is coming out to about $700 everything included.
I rented the hall ...
GoldFish In Your Wedding Centerpieces



Well, Im getting married August 2010. I recently heard of an idea to use goldfish for centerpieces. I LOVED IT! I mean fish arent my theme but Tangelo ...
cheap everything!!!!



To find cheap stuff online is totally the way to go for your wedding dress go to google type in discount wedding dresses or cheap wedding dresses tons ...
Spring Wedding Centerpieces



My wedding colors are dark pink, powder blue, and black. I'm having my guests make their own guest book pages with "Advice for the Newlyweds" cards at ...
Drawing Table Cloths For Your Cheap Wedding Guest Book



Instead of paying for expensive beautiful table clothes, get your self some cheap white table cloths and place markers or crayons at each table, let your ...
Where To Find Your Cheap Wedding DJ



Instead of going out and getting yourself a live band or DJ. why not use what we have today to our
advantage, an ipod. Everyone has an ipod and even ...
Recession Proof Wedding For $500
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My fiance and I have been putting off our wedding for 2 years due to lack of finances. The stress of planning a wedding is enough to drive anyone insane ...
Rheumatoid Wedding
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I have been with my Fiance for over 2 years now and I came down with Rheumatoid Arthritis a little over one year ago shortly after we became engaged and ...
Waiting For The Big Wedding
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We are already Married. I didn't have the wedding dress or the church like I wanted so in three years we are getting re married the whole thing; the dress,...
Engaged On Valentines Day
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Our parents were in the Air Force in the 8o's which lead us both to be stationed in the Phillippines. He had a crush on me that I never knew about.I left ...
Great Cheap Wedding Decoration Ideas
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My future mom-in-law and I were talking about how to pull of an elegant wedding without us having to go into debt for the ceremony.
We were coming ...
Charity Shop Wedding Dress and Bridesmaid Dresses
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We didn't have alot of money and I wanted to have a nice day so I went to my local charity shop and found with help from the staff the perfect dress and ...
Way to save on your wedding ring..FOR WOMEN
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If you buy the diamond(s) separately from the ring, and then have a ring made it can cost you a lot less. Look at antique jewelery stores, pawn shops, online ...
My Miracle
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After having been prisoner to a very emotionally unsatifying reltaionship of 3 1/2 years, I was rescued by True, Pure friendship and counsel by my present ...
All About My Cheap But Beautiful Wedding
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Our wedding is going to be held at my fiance's parents' beautiful home, the whole wedding ceremony reception so we don't have to rent a place.
My great ...
Do It All On Your Own For Your Cheap Wedding
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This summer I am getting married and my love and I will only be spending 500 dollars. We will be making all of the following:
Wedding dress
Wedding Cake
...
Dollar Stores For Cheap Wedding Decorations
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Dollar stores are great for decorations at the reception, why spend 50 dollars on a few things when you get more for your money at the dollar store.
Candy Bar For Cheap Wedding Favors
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Have a candy bar full of inexpensive treats in the color scheme of your wedding. Include small celophane bags with pre-cut ribbons to tie them for an alternative ...
Cheap Wedding Cake Idea
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Instead of making a big cake make a fake big cake. What you can do is put different size boxes on top of each other. Small as it goes up. Decorate these ...
Cheap Photos For Your Wedding
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Don't want to spend a lot of money on a photographer but dont want to run around doing it yourself?
I have 2 options for you to save money and still get ...
The trick for a cheap wedding is
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The trick is to do it yourself. If there is a thing you could be doing instead of someone else doing it for you, DO IT!!! It saves money and you get to ...
Craigslist For Wedding Bargains
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I have used craigslist.com to find people who are working from their homes trying to live the deal. My makeup artist, hair stylist, and wedding cake lady ...
How To Get Married For Almost Nothing!
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My wife and I got maried by the justice of the peace on a trip that was given to me. I bought season tickets to the washington mystics before i met my ...
Help a starving student and save on your cheap wedding!
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From the photographer, caterer, servers, cake baker, dj, hair, makeup... there's always someone that's just starting out. They're looking to gain valuable ...
The art of making your wedding LOOK like a million bucks!
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I am not married yet, but my partner and I definitely want to do it for less, as we have a new little bub to care for, and a nice'n'huge mortgage to consider....
Make Your Own Centerpieces
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We're going to make our own centerpieces based on movies that we like. It may seem cheesy, but it's a great conversation starter and it'll let our guests ...
Have your neighbors pay the tab for your cheap wedding
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Before I get married, I'm going to book myself on a one day course to learn how to do basic cake decoration at a college.
The flowers, invites and ...
Cheap Wedding On The Beach
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My fiance and I have been together for four years. He wanted desperately to surprise me with our engagement but every time he planned an exciting trip ...
Celebrating New Life and New Year With A Cheap Winter Wedding
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My fiance and I are getting married on New Year's Eve this year - 2009. This is a special date to us anyway because we went on our first official date ...
Love the talents of others
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It was important for us to keep the wedding focus on the reason for the event--the marriage and commitment between two people. We sincerely wanted to ...
Dollar Store Finds For Cheap Wedding Stuff
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Me and my fiance do not make alot of money, who does these days? So we have a store in our area called the dollar tree, everything is a dollar so we are ...
All in 1 cheap wedding invites
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When shopping for my wedding invites I was floored by how expenisive they can be. The rep at my local printers showed me a great solution and saved me ...
Cheap Wedding on a Beach
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My Fiance and I have always wanted a wedding on the beach. SO to save money we have decided to rent a beach house instead of spend several thousand dollars ...
Cheap Wedding Venue Idea with No decoration Needed!
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Think 'MUSEUM'! They are beautiful all on their own, no decoration needed! They rent halls really cheap, have plenty of parking and the money you save ...
Cool Carnations For Cheap Wedding Flowers
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My best and cheapest wedding tip would be to re-think your floral arraignments. Carnations for example are extremely cheap and when bunched together in ...
Borrow and Help For Your Cheap Wedding
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Being that my fiance and I are paying for our wedding ourselves, we are on a strict budget, which means we're kinda going cheap, but not too cheap. And ...
Comparison Shopping
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It is a bit time consuming, but once you get a general idea of what you want - look everywhere, check everything and be sure to keep track of where you ...
The Bride
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Our first kiss sealed the deal...and that was in high school over 11 years ago. Yes we are high school sweethearts who have wanted to tie the knot for ...
DIY Wedding Invitations
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We are on a tight budget for our wedding. We went to Staples and bought a blank invitation set and printed beautiful wedding invitations on our own printer....
Cheap Save the Dates
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When my fiance and I got engaged, I wasn't sure if I even wanted to do Save the dates, because we were on a tight budget. However when we set our date ...
Have I Got An Idea
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Ya, Know how ya stress over how much the wedding cake is gonna put you back? There's a way around that. For your guests serve a tier of cupcakes. The Bride ...
Place card doubles as wedding favor
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We are getting married in October 2010. The ceremony and reception will be outdoors at a ranch in the mountains of Southern California. Since nature is ...
A sunset wedding
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In order to save money and yet preserve the romantic elements that are so important we are going to have a sunset wedding. With the waves going out, the ...
Cheap Vegas Style Wedding
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We decided to invite our entire family and friends to come along with us to Las Vegas to get hitched by no other than Elvis himself! We wanted the wedding ...
Free Place Cards
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I have used vista print, who offer 250 free business cards (in which you can upload your own design) and postcards to create my place cards and menus.
I ...
How To Get More At Your Cheap Wedding Site
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Networking and thinking outside the box are great cheap saving ideas. I think that a cheap wedding idea is when using a wedding ceramony site,go in with ...
Wedding For Less Than £500
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My hubby and me spent less than £500 all together on our wedding because we had nothing at the time but we had the best day ever. Our invites and napkins ...
Cheap but Elegant
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I've been planning my wedding for less than a year and as we all know every little that you save adds up to a lot. Although i like a good deal, I don't ...
save on your weddings
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trim your guest list- each person invited adds to your overall cost
Hi Susan
It is nice to have the people that are important to you when you get ...
Don't Tell Anyone!
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don't tell anyone!
Hi Jeff
That took me a second or two to get - very funny and you are so right! Elope to get married will save you a fortune.
Friends ...
Magistrate is always the cheapest way to go
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I know me and my husband just applied the license which was like 30 or 40.00. Then we made an appointment with the local magistrate and they charged like ...
The Old Fashion Way - Cheap Wedding Idea
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We are wanting a wedding based on the old days. Where the men wear the full gear as in cowboy hats, 3 to 4 piece suits and the females wearing the saloon ...
Make Your Own Table Center Pieces
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The best way I could think of to make your own table pieces is to go to your local arts and craft stores and buy 3 diffrent size clear glass vases(like ...
A Girl's Night While Creating Your Cheap Wedding Decorations
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A lot of a wedding budget goes to decor such as bouquets, centerpieces and favors. So instead of spending way too much on store bought, I decided I would ...
Cheap Vintage Wedding Car Idea
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After getting engaged in April, my soon to be husband and I knew that we wanted something different. A few of our friends had gotten married in the late ...
Best Proposal
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Paul had taken me ( Sarah ) out to his father's place for dinner last Sunday evening. He made a point to invite both of my parents along for dinner. I ...
The Perfect Wedding
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The perfect wedding does not need any kind of party, it's two people very much in love facing one another and declaring each others love until their dying ...
Cup Cake Table instead of a cake
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My ex girlfriend just got married... I know I know, weird that I attended, but i really loved her and we are still good friends.
Instead of a traditional ...
Candy Table
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My sister was just married and for her wedding, she had a candy table. It had all of the most popular candy's and was the biggest hit. They were arranged ...
Cheap Centerpiece and Favor Idea
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Since I am a librarian and my future husband is a big reader, we decided to make our centerpieces and favors out of used paperbacks. Specifically, trashy ...
Traditional Asian Wedding Favors For A Great Cheap Wedding Idea
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Hello,
I'm preparing also my wedding for next year.
I started to organize many things,and I realized it's not that easy.
Searching cheap and creative ...
Summer Picnic Wedding Reception
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A cheap but well loved idea for a reception is to throw a BBQ style party. A few tubs of ice can hold the drinks for young and old alike. Toss some great ...
Get everyone involved to save money on your wedding
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Friend of mine and her hubby to be lost their jobs right before the wedding and things looked grim.
To save on money the wedding party went to the ...
Cheap Chocolate Wedding Favor Ideas
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By making your own favors, you can save so much money. For our wedding, I purchased chocolate molds and made chocolate wedding bell favors. Wrapped them ...
Home Grown Cheap Wedding Flowers
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For beautiful inexpensive wedding flowers, grow your own. My brother just got married 3 days ago (Saturday, July 18th). We used flowers that were grown ...
Barter For Your Wedding
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Times are tough- and you may trade babysitting for someone making a cake, or you can work at a rental shop and rent a wedding dress- or do some blogging ...
Make Your Own Wedding Invitations
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I love to make my own cards and invitations. Sure they take a lot more time and energy, but you can also save money making your own. Plus, they will ...
Do you have married friends?
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Because I do! And they all have basements full of tealight candles, rolls of ribbon, glass vases, leftover fabric, candy buffet jars and twinkle lights....
Funny friendly easy wedding :-)
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Because we're Italian, a perfect wedding's just with parents and a couple of friends, having a pizza at Luigi's place (pizza here's loved by ALL, and it'...
Cheap Wedding Cake Idea
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Do you have a friend or relative who can work with fondant icing, but it's not someone that you would want to burden with making a whole wedding cake very ...
Money Saving On Photos For Your Wedding
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Place disposable cameras on all the reception tables. Some picures which aren't staged are the best!
Making a cheap wedding
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I personally go to consignment shops for wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses.There you can also find wedding accessories...I make my own food and flowers ...
Wedding Venue
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My fiance and I have been together since grade 7 and we have been through many tough times together. We ended up having a baby at the age of 24 and have ...
Turn wedding reception pictures into a game
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At each reception table have a camera labeled with the table number. Have a note to let guests know you need their help.
The game is to have guests ...
Very Cheap Wedding Reception Idea
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Cancelled the reception for 200 guests and just invited close family and friends to a cut price (early evening) meal at PIZZA EXPRESS.
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Cheap Wedding Flowers
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Use flowers from your own garden you'd be suprised how easy it is to arrange good flower arrangements for the reception and to make bouquets. Libraries ...
A Yummy Scottish Cheap Wedding Favour Idea
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Get your friends round and make your own favours. Scottish tablet is so easy to make, tastes great, and cheap! Impress your guests with lovingly made homemade ...
A University, Do-It-Yourself Wedding
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Josh and I met while in university - he was an undergrad, I was a master's student - and our engagement and graduations were basically a simultaneous event....
Double Duty - Triple Duty
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I created floral balls out of styrofoam balls and silk flowers from the dollar store. They doubled as both pew decor and centerpieces. Plus I was able ...
Tear Packs
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I wanted to have "tear packs" for my wedding reception but to purchase them pre-made was very expensive. I bought the small packs of tissues at the dollar ...
How to Plan on a Budget!
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ONLINE! My best find yet has been my Veil. It was tagged $180 at the bridal shop where I ordered my dress. I simply do not have $180 in the budget for ...
My Free But Beautiful Wedding Ceremony And Reception Site
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Hello my name is Tiffany Kelley and I got engaged to my boyfriend of one year on June 1, 2009. His name is William Colwell we are both 23. He is a lead ...
Mini Soaps For Cheap Wedding Favors
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This is a cute and to me cheap wedding favor. Take Wilton candy molds in wedding designs, then use melt and pour soap, any scent and color of your wedding....
Search Engine Queen Cheap Wedding Ideas
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I sit at a computer all day and I have found the best deals are on craigslist.com and bravobride.com. They both offer new or used items from others and ...