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Tips To Keep Down Wedding Costs

Getting married can be unbelievably expensive. But if you want to ensure that you don't start your married life completely in debt why not follow these five ideas to help lower the cost of the wedding.

1) How can you save on the venue?
Are you determined to have a early spring or summer wedding? In the event that the answer is absolutely no then the biggest reduction in spending a person can make has to be having your special day during the winter time. The cost of reserving your venue will undoubtedly end up being cheaper - even more so when you opt for a day during the week rather than a Saturday or Sunday. Winter weddings may be incredibly romantic. Picture a beautiful bride with gorgeous fur wrap and a seasonal bouquet. If you live in the united kingdom there is no assurance that the weather in the summertime will be good in any case and nothing beats a beautiful crisp, clear, sunny winter's day. I got wedded in January and had my reception at a country hotel. It was gorgeous as by the time we'd finished the reception refreshments it was getting darkish and the reception areas were lit by genuine candlelight - truly intimate.

2) Keeping the costs reception down
It may be that you would like to invite a ton of people to your wedding ceremony but this is where you could have to be a little bit ruthless. Try to retain the number of friends to below fifty or even sixty (or less if at all possible) and then invite others you don't want to omit completely to the night time do.

3)  Lowering the champagne and wine costs
Negotiate with the wedding venue about wine and bubbly costs. It could possibly workout cheaper to provide your own wine and just pay corkage for it. With so many half price deals in supermarkets these days you can get some pretty good wine inexpensively and hopefully the corkage won't bump it up too much.

4) The Cake
I made a big saving on my wedding cake by going to Marks and Spencer. After having been quoted several hundred pounds regarding cakes a friend recommended I try Marks. My partner and i didn't even realise they do wedding cakes. They have a reasonably good range which includes cup cake ones but My partner and i opted for the more standard kind. They do their own cakes in different sizes and they're mix and match. If you want a tiered cake you just pick a medium, large and extra large cake, choose the color of the icing, after that the type of inside such as plain sponge or chocolate sponge and you're away. These cakes are very simple so I asked my florist to make three small flower arrangements, similar in style to my bridal bouquet, and I just these as decorations.

5) Photography savings
This really is another place where you can really make big savings. It's ok dishing the dough to have an expensive wedding photographer, yet let's face it, nowadays with digital cameras it can be eminently possible for even beginner photographers to take fantastic photos. Another thing to remember is that the current craze in wedding photography is to take casual shots - particularly types where the people in the shot don't even discover it's being taken, rather than traditional posed ones. So why not task several of your friends, with decent digital cameras, with the job of 'official' photographers. You're bound to get lots of beautiful shots and then almost all you have to do will be to upload them to a website {specialising} in getting them into the form of a coffee table book or album.

As you can see there is a lot to think about so I hope this article has started to give you some ideas. If you need more ideas or information please visit my site http://www.weddinghatsandheadbands.co.uk for tips on wedding headbands and other related things.

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