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eLearning Series: Cut Your Wedding Costs
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Hot Tips To Slash Your Wedding Costs
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How
To Plan
Your Wedding Decoration Budget
When it comes
to your decorating budget it really depends on where the
ceremony and reception will be on what decorations need to
be present as well as what if any; themes that you are choosing.
For example, if
you are planning an indoor dinner, you have to include centerpieces
etc. The most common decorating choice for weddings and reception
are flowers, and streamers.
While the streamers
and various other decorations are generally inexpensive,
the flowers can kill you. It is best when choosing your flowers
for a wedding service and reception to use false flowers
or paper machete flowers as they are cheap and reusable.
For those who prefer to use real flowers, it can be much cheaper
to go with wild flowers and/or hand picked flowers. It is also a good idea
to use them sparingly.
For example, rather
than going all out and decorating everything with flowers
just use a simple arrangement for the center of the table
and place them in small vases or hand made crafts.
Of course you can also opt to keep the flowers strictly in the ceremony. Paper
machete flowers are getting more and more popular as well as hand made roses
that were created from tissue paper. When they are placed on green pipe cleaners
or wires that are covered in green tissue paper they are quite attractive.
It is a nice way to save money and spend some time with your friends and family
in creating them.
When it comes to the decoration budget, this is a time when you will want the
church, chapel or hall for the ceremony to cover them for you.
If that is not
possible, the ceremonial decorations can be limited to those
involved in the ceremony, such as their clothes. If you must,
you can pin balloons to the areas where the guests will be
seated or create some flowers out of tissue paper.
Streamers are always used, but there are other ways to decorate that are just
as appealing. Here are some good tips for decorating at your wedding on a budget.
- A really unique
idea is to use glass containers and putting baby fish in
them. It is very unique and attractive, and it is also
cheap because the glass containers can be purchased at
Wal-Mart and even a dollar store. The fish can be as cheap
as you want them to be.
- Good old candle
holders and candles are always a romantic addition to any
wedding decor.
- If you reception
is at night it is nice to add fireflies to a glass container
with holes for air or even butterflies during the day.
- False flower
arrangements in a bamboo pot are a very nice addition and
keepsake for guests.
- Using white
Christmas lights streamed through greenery is a beautiful
decoration and is one that you likely already have available.
- Chocolate and
candy flower bouquets are sweet accents to the décor
and they can be souvenirs for the guests later.
- Balloons, balloons,
and more balloons are always fun.
These are not
the only decorations that are available but you get
the idea. The best thing that you can do before choosing
your decorations is to choose a theme first. Themes for weddings
are just like choosing themes for anniversaries and birthdays.
Once you decide on a theme, you are ready to decorate around
that theme.
For example, if
you are choosing to have your theme be tropical romance,
you can use glass containers with sand etc. as centerpieces
to your reception. Some extra and easy to afford themes include
those that will be listed in the table below as well as some
of the things that usually accompany them.
These are common
wedding ceremonial themes that are used as opposed to the
reception themes mentioned above; of course they can be used
as reception themes too.
These are some
of the most common themes that you can choose and the most
affordable as well. The fact of the matter is that once you
have chosen your theme it is easy to work around. Many of
the items that were mentioned in the above themes can be
found in discount stores and dollar stores.
The point here
is that before you can decide on a wedding budget, you
must choose your theme first and make sure that it suits
your finances.
 
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