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| Wedding Budget Tips | It will help you both see each others view on a perfect wedding and help determine what items, services, or other ideas that are less important to you both. It can be from wanting your wedding in Hawaii to not wanting a full band, or wanting a designer wedding dress instead of opting for a budget gown.
Guest List: Guests do not come cheap
The fewer guests you have the less money you will spend, but the more guests the more favors, invitations, cake, food, drinks, and larger reception hall is needed.
Receptions usually are the most costly due to catering services, and the hall size most of both these services charge per-person prices.
The best advice is to limit the guests you have per how long your reception will be. For instance, if you had 150 guest and you want to greet everyone individually for a minute each you would need 2hrs and 30mins.
Remember it does not include other activities, like dancing, eating, tossing the garter, cutting the cake, etc.
Another way to determining how many guests close family and friends to invite, that you enjoy being with.
Invitations: Getting the word out
Anyone can make invitations. Doing it yourself can save money and show everyone how skilled you are.
You can add a personalized touch to each. You can also make them on the computer with software and pastel colored printing paper, or even handwrite with a gold pen and stationary; the possibilities are endless, be creative.
If you don’t have time and lack creativity, call around to get price quotes, everyone prices differently.
Consider the higher priced one may be nicer but if this is not a top priority buy the cheaper ones.
Your guests shouldn’t care if you send them a plain white invitation instead of the custom one shaped like a bride.
Your all guests will more than likely just write the date on the calendar and throw away the invitation anyways.
Save money on purchased invitations:
- Purchase thermographed print instead of getting the invitations engraved.
- Thermography is raised print were as engraved is indented; however they look and feel the same.
Other ways to save:
- If everyone has email or most have email then you could email invitations. Those ones without email send an invitation by mail.
- Save on return postage, envelopes, and printing by having your guest call to RSVP.
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