The first thing that comes to mind when starting the process of organizing a wedding is related to the couple’s favorite color. In most cases, the bride has a different opinion from the groom’s, but this problem is usually solved by their wedding planner, who decides to use both their preferred colors for the wedding that is about to happen.

After establishing the color/s that will be used at the wedding, the wedding planner along with the marrying couple decide upon other things, that need to be considered if the couple wants a cheap wedding. If you have the money, you can hire an entire wedding planning agency that will deal with organizing your wedding, at the highest standards, according to your desires, but if you have a limited budget, you have to cut down some expenses, even if you desire a certain wedding decoration or a specific music band.

Cheap Wedding Reception Ideas (Photo by: Jose and Roxanne)

If you don't have the money to use platinum wedding decorations, make your reception toasts while having crystal flutes in your hands and hydrangeas on tables, or to amaze your guests with some Swarovski crystal-inspired ideas, you will have to stick to what you have and order balloons, cheap champagne bottles, a lot of DIY wedding decorations and some carnations, that will enhance guest tables.

Couples that do not have a lot of money to organize a glamorous wedding should know that they can plan a very elegant wedding too, without having to spend thousands of dollars on wedding decorations, attire, invitations, flowers, musicians, rings and others. And this, without offering the wedding a cheap look.

Just consider exchanging your vows in a lovely and small church, using a rotary cutter to slice up stacks of colored tissue paper that will adorn the branches of the trees at your wedding venues, wearing some rented clothes (or designing them yourself), sending paper invitations (which are the cheapest ones) and using some white and ivory rosettes fashioned from raffia and floral wire.

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Written by Monica Elena Ionescu, date Aug 20, 2012 in Wedding Ideas | no comments

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