Below are some creative tips for planning an inexpensive  wedding with unique wedding ideas. Affordable weddings can still be beautiful and memorable. It just takes a little creativity and some wedding planning resources.

Wedding Planning Strategies

Budget Weddings
Choose in-season flowers. Get your flowers from Costco.

Gifts For Family And Attendants.
Make your own gift baskets personalized to each recipient. You can even find some fillers at the 99 cent store.

Wedding News

Wedding Day Make up
Wedding Hairstyles

Cheap Bridesmaid Dresses
Cheap Wedding Gowns

Wedding Contest

Wedding Etiquette

Wedding Centerpieces

Wedding Music

Cheap Catering

Inexpensive wedding
Flowers

Backyard Weddings

Wedding Jewelry

Cheap Honeymoons

Fiance Visa
Green Card

Cheap Wedding Invitations

Cheap Wedding Photos

Wedding Videos

Chinese Wedding Customs
Greek Wedding Customs
Irish Wedding Customs
Indian Wedding Customs
Jewish Wedding Customs
Mexican Wedding Customs

Wedding Vows

Wedding Links

Planning an Inexpensive Wedding

Cheap Wedding Months

The Guest List

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DIY Invitations

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Fall and winter months are less expensive for weddings because vendors charge less.
Don't invite people you haven spoken to in years. Try skipping kids and colleagues. You should Invite serious partners and spouses.
Give each set of parents a number of guests they can invite so they don't get carried away.
You can save on the invitations by buying blank sets and printing them with you own computer printer or take them to a local print shop. You can even buy card stock and start from scratch for the least expensive way to go.
David's Bridal, Jo-ann's Fabrics, and Office Depot have the best prices I've seen on invitations.


Unique Wedding Registries

Many Couples today are going beyond the traditional wedding registry to get something that they actually need. After all, most people getting married today have lived on their own and have plenty of dishes and cookware already. Here are some alternatives to wedding registries:

Note of caution, according a blogger on the consumerist website says that Target goes not give you refunds for duplicate gifts from your registry unless you bring in the receipts from the people who gave you’re the gifts. This is from Target’s return policy, “Please note that all returns to Target must include either the original receipt or a Gift Receipt.  Gift Givers are strongly encouraged to include a Gift Receipt whenever a gift is purchased.” This seems unfair because it should be up to the store to registry to make sure that you don’t get duplicate gifts. The store we used did reimburse us for duplicate gifts.


A Good Argument
for Destination Weddings!
Sandals Resorts is having a pretty cool destination wedding package in Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua and The Bahamas. The "8/8/08 Infinity Wedding packages" are available beginning August 8, 2008. For $4,888, you get a wedding ceremony atsunset, an eight course gourmet dinner, a  wedding cake, fresh flowers, a wedding musician, a photographer, and videographer. For more information, call (1-800-726-3257) or visit http://www.sandals.com.


Wedding Night Help
The Kama Sutra Company introduced some sultry stuff for the bride and groom. It includes: Massage Oil, Honeysuckle body powder and puff, Vanilla warming Oil, French Vanilla Body Souffle, and an organza bag with silk rose petals to drop. You will find it a pink and silver gift box. www.kamasutra.com/bride.

Virtual Wedding Packages
Florida Eye Tours has virtual wedding packages throughout 2008. It is located in Florida, Anna Maria Island. Family members who can't make the wedding can see it one business day after the event. You can even relive the wedding the next day while you're waiting for your video to be completed. Visit www.FloridaEyeTours.com or call (941) 219-2106.

Bachelorette Parties at Home
The economy is even having an effect on bachelorette parties and bachelor parties, according to an online survey from I-Volution Inc., more are choosing to have these parties at home. A common theme for some who go out is to attend the theatre or going to pole dancing lessons. (Don't let aunt Gertie try it. She'll sprain something.) The classic in-home exotic male entertainer is still popular as is a spa day or a dinner and drinks.
The guys are going for bar hopping, in-home female dancers, golf weekends, paintball, and concert/sporting events. (What a shock!)

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Celebrity Weddings
on a Budget

Want to have a wedding like Tony Parker and Eva Longoria? You can copy some of the elegant elements of celebrity weddings by using your imagination and a paying attention to the right details. The pamperedchef.com offers some tips. One celebrity rehearsal trend is doable with any budget: A backyard party or barbeque. Reception ideas include the following:

The Lounge Reception:  Instead of a formal sit-down have fun food stations – the taco bar, candy bar, or mini-hamburger stand. Lounge receptions usually start later and allow more mingling among the guests.

Be You Own Florist:  Try your hand at making your own arrangements based on photos in wedding and entertainment magazines.

Cheaper Wedding Flowers


Have Your A Honeymoon Close to home
I don't mean in the backyard!

Most people completely overlook all the great tourist spots in their own hometown or an hour or two away. With airfares going through the roof, it might be a good option. Keep the location a secret in order to avoid unwanted guests.


Need to go really cheap! Downloand ceremony and reception songs on your ipod and play it at the wedding. Ask musician friends or family members to
perform instead of giving a gift. For less expensive Catering -try a restaurant or just get main dishes
catered and have family members prepare the rest.

Affordable Wedding Entertainment

Honeymoons Close to Home