Wedding Ideas on a budget

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      BiggerPiggyBank

      Now my wedding was over thirty years ago, and we probably did it pretty much
      on the cheap side. We had a traditional church wedding with about 200 guests.
      My Mother was an excellent semesters (she made wedding gowns and prom dresses
      for people when I was a kid), so she made my dress. And, those of my
      attendants.

      My sister was the maid of honor. And, I had two candlelighters who
      were
      younger cousins. She made all of their dresses, and we were lucky enough to
      find the fabric on sale.

      We bought the fabric in December for a spring wedding,
      so it was all sale stuff, except for the wedding dress material. I found a
      young woman who made the cake. We ordered the invitations from a local print
      shop and he gave us a great price.

      And, we had a cake and punch reception in the basement of our church. We
      paid a wedding coordinator $20.00 and my Mom had a favorite punch recipe and
      made
      it all herself. And, we did not hire a professional photographer, but my
      uncle and a couple of other relatives just took regular photographs and we put
      together our own album.

      We ended up with nice pictures too.

      We were married the day before Easter and the local florist shop had a
      special on Easter lilies and we used those for the wedding and then I had a
      bouquet
      and flowers for our mothers and buttonairs for the guys. The main other
      expense was for the tuxes.

      When my son got married his future mother in law is very talented
      artistically and she did all the flowers out of artificial ones. They had
      columns at the
      front of the church and she decorated them with flowers and ribbon and we
      helped do the rows in the church by putting up matching ribbons on the pews.
      She
      made the brides bouquets and flowers for all the tables at the reception.
      Was a gorgeous setting and all of the flowers were saved to be used for her sons
      wedding a few months later?

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