Budget Wedding: Get married at just $1,000!

You’re concerned about the state of the economy. You’re concerned about the recession. You’re concerned about starting married life with a debt from a lavish wedding hanging over your head. However, I also understand your concern about wanting to have the wedding of your dreams.

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Here are some tips on how you can get married with a budget of $1,000:

• Wedding Invitation – Do it yourself if you’re web-savvy and if it’s a small wedding, a wedding invitation printed off your home computer will do the trick!
• Wedding Gown – get it from the Salvation Army or a thrift shop or better yet, hire one for the day. You’ll only wear it once so why spend thousands of dollars on it?
• Venue: Get married at your local church or at a friend or family’s house. Destination weddings? It will blow your budget unless ‘destination’ wedding for you means the next town or city from where you live then it’s still doable under $1,000!
• Hair & Make Up – go to your fab friend who’s always so nicely made up. Perhaps she can do your hair and make-up for you
• Reception – Get your helpful friends and family to cater the food for you. Do it at breakfast where people don’t expect to gorge on so much food. Drinks? It’s a breakfast reception so there is no expectation from the guests to be served alcohol so early in the day. If guests expect alcohol then there may be something wrong with them. Recommend they go to the nearest AA meeting.
• Wedding cake – in your circle of friends and family, someone surely is a master baker wanna-be. Get him or her to bake your wedding cake.
• Bridal Party – get your bridesmaids to wear a dress in the motiff that you like for ‘uniformity’ of color. At least the bridesmaids can wear the dress in other occasions too!

I hope this helps. If you have other tips to share, do let me know!