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August 18, 2006 at 2:54 pm #237287
Melissa Burnell
Re: Budget101.com : Planning a wedding on collage budget
We also paid for our entire wedding ourselves. It was my second and my husbands first. I have seen alot of ideas and tips that we used but I will run down our list anyways:
my maid of honor paid for her pattern and material i let her choose basically whatever she wanted.
my mom paid for the material for my kids dresses.
we got married on a friday night at dusk by a justice of the peace
we had the ceremony at my moms…we ended up using her living room because it was raining
we used silk flowers on the stairs and in bouquets (went to a wholesale club to buy them and they were dirt cheap) and had real flowers on candlelabras.
we made our own bouquets and head pieces.
we got our rings on sale and because my husband bought a more expensive ring mine was free.
we printed our own invitations on pretty notecards cheaper than the card stock and it was exactly what i wanted.
we had only champagne and cake and no “real reception”. we bought our cake from walmart…it was 2 tiers and my SIL added fresh flowers to the tiers and around it on the table so it was the center piece. We opened all our gifts after the cake.
A friend of ours took all the pics on her 35 MM camera and had them developed as our wedding gift.
When people asked what we wanted we told them money. My parents have a time share and they gave us a week in the mountains as a honey moon. We used the money we got for sight seeing in the mountains and for a hotel room after the ceremony.
We had 2 little kids at the time and we took them for 4 days of our honeymoon and had a family vacation.
Congrats to your daughter!Holly
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