RE: Inexpensive Wedding Tips for Belgium
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Post By Roland Joseph (Guest Post)
(04/18/2007)
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Hello Sir/Madam
I am a member of the British Armed Forces. My Fiancee and I would like to get married in Belgium and wonder if you can give us information. We would like a small ceremony on a beach, register or maybe with a nice view overlooking city or river. We also need a minister,flowers,dinner and photos. would it be possible to get back the certificates in two days to take back to the UK. We are looking to get married around the 1st of may weekend.
Please reply at your earliest convenience
Many thanks.
Roland Joseph
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RE: Inexpensive Wedding Tips
try the local 4H club County extention Office in the gov section of the phone book. see if there is a floral class. I used them and got great results. also try them decorating, cooking and servers. maybe your decorations could win a prize at the county fair.
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RE: Inexpensive Wedding Tips
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Post By lazisuzi (Guest Post)
(02/06/2007)
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I have a few friends who actually bought white prom dresses for their wedding gowns. They paid $40-$50 for them and one even had a small train! They wore halos in their hair and looked gorgeous!
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RE: Inexpensive Wedding Tips
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Post By Jessie (Guest Post)
(02/02/2007)
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I live in the States, but see if you can get a dress from Chadwicks. I got my dress there with a coupon my mom had in her email for around $100 with shipping. (Beautiful ivory, off the shoulder evening dress with no train.) Also try to make as much of the food as possible or just have cake and punch. Depending on when the wedding is try to look for things in "non-wedding" stores and see if you can find them on sale.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Inexpensive Wedding Tips
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Post By jc42 (Guest Post)
(01/31/2007)
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Make it personal. I like the outdoor wedding -- you could even do an evening ceremony with the small twinkle lights for accent.
Hire an aspiring cake-baker to make your cake. Or do it yourself! Buttercream frosting is easy to make and very tasty. You can simply use live flowers (roses, etc, check for toxicity if you are unsure) to decorate it.
We got married in a remade "castle" (former Elk's lodge) and had a "traditional" medieval ceremony -- handfasting, ceremony, roast boar, sword fight -- and saved quite a bit on money. My sister and I made the wedding party attire very inexpensively and fun. I have worn my wedding dress every year when we attend Renaissance festivals. We printed our own invites (as has been suggested) and made our birdseed holders for guests to toss from as we left the building.
As for table decor - use fresh fruit! It can be laid out at random or placed in second-hand baskets. Guests can snack on it and you can take the rest home for healthy snacks later.
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Use the Thriftyfun search for "Tulle and Lights Wedding Decor" for a really pretty display.
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I cater wedding receptions as a hobby and have done about a dozen of them in the past few years (200 guests each). I did my niece's reception recently and she had requested a chocolate fountain... so I did some research. What I found interesting is that some brides are replacing the traditional wedding cake with the chocolate fountain.
It's a bit hit, and lots of fun. Messy though, clean up is even messier!
The fountain idea is not particularly cheap, but less than a professional wedding cake. She had both. The wedding cake (200 guests) was about $400.
The fountain rented for $100. The belguim chocolate (a must, in my opinion ... high fat content flows easily) was $50 for 10 pounds. $75 for out-of-season strawberries, supplemented with purchased apple slices from Sams Club (won't turn dark...and they were a big hit), large marshmallows, pretzel stick, grapes and skewers.
Leave out the strawberries and grapes, use lots of apple slices, possibly (firm) brownies or cake cubes and you can make an impressive display for about $200. Have one (brave) person designated to watch over it all. A hint: Take a bubble level to make sure the fountain is absolutely straight so it flows evenly.
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Plant inexpensive, easy-to-grow stem and stalk flowers like irises and daylilies to use at the wedding. Ask close friends and family to plant some as well so your flower bounty will be greater by the wedding date.
Don't forget second-hand stores for great finds. This is especially great for more ecclectic weddings where not every piece has to match perfectly.
Don't forget about your local "dollar" stores! Check the party aisles for some unexpected finds.
Need a cake? Search online for a two-ingredient cake. The simplest requires only a can of cola and a cake mix (total under $1.50 per 2-layer cake). Make numerous cakes or one large multi-layered cake. For decorating, DIY (practice now) or hire an artsy relative or friend on the cheap to do the fancy icing.
Think outside the box on wedding favors. You can do a wide variety of on-the-cheap favors and none has to match. Do some sachets, some small packs of stationary, some bubble packs, etc. Most of this you can find at the dollar store.
and... tulle everything!
Good luck!
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My daughter just got engaged to be married July '07! She's into doing things well, but inexpensively, and (duh) I want to help her on her quest. Any ideas?
KLJohn from Crawford, CO
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Set a Budget
When my daughter married 5 years ago, we set a budget and did not exceed it. We went to the florist and purchased the flowers that were leftover for the week of the wedding (april) and bought a few calla lilies to accent. My niece arranged all the flowers; we purchased the ribbon from a local dollar store; we made victorian cones filled with the flowers and they were hung with ribbon on the pews - it was very pretty; we also filled small victorian cones made from paper doilies and got leftover rose petals from the florist; filled the cones and the rose petals were thrown at the bride & groom at their exit from the church.
We had a friend who was a caterer and she was told of our budget; for her gift, she supplied all the food for the small reception and arranged it.
Let friends and family know of your plans and your small budget; they will help you! We did it and people offered their help.
We bought a bolt of tulle and used it everywhere; we had english ivy growing in our yard and we used it to decorate the candelabras which the church furnished; the finishing touches on the candles was the tulle (the netting)
Good luck and it can be done - have fun! (12/25/2006)
By WANDAJO
Pick Your Colors Early
She needs to pick out her colors asap. This way you can start shopping for all of the little extras. After holidays you can always find ribbons and lights to decorate with. My brother just used purple lights that were purchased after Halloween at his wedding this last year. Valentine's day and Easter are coming up so pick a color and use your imagination.
Easter grass is wonderful as a decoration along the tables if you get the shiny stuff people won't even know it wasn't purchased at the decorating shop. Use it in glass bowls with a fake flower on top for a centerpiece. Or you can scatter around a pillar candle on a plate. Easter grass comes in almost any color now days. (12/27/2006)
By dpcw
Oriental Trading
There are some wedding items available through www.orientaltrading.com that are very inexpensive. They have candle votive holders that can be personalized and they don't cost very much. (12/27/2006)
By Persnickety Paula
"How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget"
Get the book "How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget". There are lots of ideas of every kind and a planner & organizer companion also. Author-Diane Warner. I got done meats (brisket, this is Texas, potato salad and beans from the grocery store- HEB), bought material on sale all at same time on sale from Hobby Lobby, patterns too. Found an older woman who sewed like a dream. A friend from church did all the floral arrangements. We were married in a Wedding Chapel who provided the cake, music, minister, garter, chairs and so on for a fee. A whole lot cheaper than us doing that part. Candles were ordered at a candle factory. Very nice and fairly inexpensive. I was a student, had 4 children and living on minimal money. Plus, a second marriage for me. Have fun and good luck! (12/28/2006)
By LaRue
Outdoor Wedding
Unless your family is very religious and feel the wedding must be in Church, get married outside in a park or garden. My son and d-in law did this for the their wedding, they were married in her home town in the beautiful Rose Gardens. It was summer, so the roses, other flowers, trees and grass were all the 'flora' they needed. My d-inlaw, made up her own and the bridesmaids bouquets from flowers she purchased, and they looked beautiful. Her dress was a classic white 'off- the rack- and she looked lovely.
They printed out their own blue and gold wedding invitations on the computer. (12/28/2006)
By Ellie.
Photos
We had a very inexpensive wedding. I think the best thing we did was have a friend with a really nice camera do our pictures. We purchased high quality film and took it to Ritz camera for high quality developing. We could choose to have as many copies of as many pictures as we wanted and we still have all the negatives. Now, a high quality digital camera would probably also be a good option. (12/29/2006)
By Allison
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