Planning a budget wedding

With weddings costing upwards of £20,000 now! A figure which personally I think is extortionate and I would never spend that amount on a wedding! We have been planing our wedding and thinking about ways to save money. Here are a few tips I have if you are planning a wedding. 

1. DIY - do it yourself! Decorations, table covers, centrepieces etc. I'm going for a vintage theme with simple wild flower centrepieces and glass jars with tea lights. These are all things we can do without paying an outside company. Collect jars from food like pasta sauces and coffee. You don't necessarily have to have all the jars matching. We have bought some lace from a material wholesalers to decorate the jars with.

 

2. Flowers - if you can make your own bouquet this will save you a lot! We are trying to grow our own flowers but have a backup in place. Covent garden flower market is a great place to get your flowers from if you are planning on doing your own bouquets and flower arrangements. There are loads of YouTube videos on how to flower arrange. 

3. Food - if you can avoid having a sit down meal this will save you a lot of money. Especially if you have a large wedding with a lot of guests. We are having a fish and chip van come and our guests can go and get their own meals from the van. This is costing under £900 for 100 guests. Less than £9 a head. We are also thinking of having an ice cream van for dessert. This comes in at £280 to serve 100 ice creams. 

These are my first 3 tips which are the main three things we have been working on so far. I will do a separate post about finding a cheap venue as we have found a lovely venue for a very reasonable price.