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Wedding panic!
I'm 20 years old, and a girl.
My boyfriend proposed to me a month ago, and I couldn't be happier!
We're both students. I've got three years (including this one) left, and he has 4 years to go. We're not planning to get married until at least after I'm done school, so I've got tons of time.
I'm sort of panicking, though, because I'm not exactly the wedding type. I've always had male friends, I spend more time doing my physics homework than dreaming up my perfect wedding, and I've never actually been to one before, due to my absolute lack of family.
It's weird; I'm really looking forward to marrying this guy, but dreading the prospect of having to plan it! That's why I want to start looking around, even though I have several years to sort things out.
Is there anyone out there who has planned (or is planning) a low-budget wedding and has any tips, great websites or books for me to check out? I have absolutely no idea what happens at a wedding, so I have to start from square one.
Before anyone asks me to Google it, I have, and in the process have been overwhelmed by the flood of details. I kind of need a step by step thing.
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Yah, my wedding was as low budget as we could get. It's the marriage and not the day, is how we looked at it. This is what we did:
We invited only parents, siblings, grandparents, and a select few close friends. Our guest list was I think at most 30 people, and as a rule, at least 1/3 of your list won't be able to come.
Our wedding was casual, accept for me, who wore a wedding gown. My folks bought my gown, and we got it from a wedding shop that also sold used dresses. My dress was very nice, and cost $125. All alterations for $25.
I had a fresh bouquet, but it only cost $30 because it was made of daisies, my favorite flower. Daisies are inexpensive.
I borrowed white Crocs from my sister-in-law, because I wanted a comfortable shoe, and no one would see my shoes anyhow under my dress.
The wedding party wore blue jeans, nice white dress shirts, and nice dresses. Stuff that can be worn again and again. I had a bride's maid and a flower girl, he had a best man and a ring bearer.
My maid bought some fake flowers from Walmart and made a cute bouquet.
We bought the pillow for the ring bearer, but I made the basket for the flower girl. I got the basket from the crafts clearance rack at Walmart, I got a garland of daisies and ribbon to decorate it.
We bought a few decorations to dress up the the place where we had the reception, but other than getting a roll of paper to cover tables, we only dressed up the cake table, and the wedding party table.
His aunt bought the cake for our wedding gift, and his family cooked some good eats for the reception. We rented the local community center for $25 all day. (It is a Jones Fund community center that used to be a one room schoolhouse.)
The actual wedding was in his aunt's yard, and I'm lucky enough I have an uncle who could marry us, and he did free of charge.
My sister-in-law did my hair for me, so I didn't have to pay a salon.
For invitations, I bought a kit from Walmart (I bought a lot there, didn't I?) and I printed my own from our computer. That saved a lot of money, there, too.
I did the same for thank you cards.
We planned our wedding in less than a month, if you can believe it, and it went wonderfully.
I can't think of anything else I may have done, so if you have any further questions, feel free to ask me in my inbox, and I will help as best as I can.
Below is a link for how a "traditional wedding" is meant to work, but as you know, you make it your own and within your own budget.
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Oh! My mom and I have digital cameras, so she and my sister-in-law took all of the pictures. Trust me, you don't need a professional photographer to get beautiful pictures.
I edited and printed my own pictures from my computer.
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if you're on a low budget, have a small wedding with just your closest friends/family. Instead of booking a church, try having the ceremony in a park or a family's/friend's backyard. That way you can have the reception there too. you can hire a caterer, but if you're just going to have about twenty to thirty people, you dont really need one. you can cook them the night before and then have someone heat them up before the reception.
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