Quick Comment of excitement!

Yay! That's exciting!! I saved on invitations!! by about $800 bucks because I did DIY! Everyone was quoting me about 900-1000, crazy!!

My FH's suit for the wedding!!!
My dad was buying a suit for himself and the salesman in the shop told him that the following week, they were going to have a sale (buy one full price suit, get another for $100). The salesman put my dad's suit on hold and we all went back the following week. We got my FH a $600 suit for $100!!!!!!!!

WOW! That's an amazing save!!! DIY really takes up time, but can totally be worth it in the end!

Awesome KM! We got my FH's tux for free b/c we had enough guys renting them. That was a pretty nice save, but no $500 save! NICE!

Cydney....That's outstanding. $150 is a lot of money to shave from the budget. Good job!

KM...Congrats! That was an awesome score.

I saved at least $85 on centerpieces, a bride from a wedding at the hotel I work didn't want her centerpieces afterwards and since they're the exact same as I'm using, she let me have all of them! Tall, medium and small glass cylinders, a huge bag of clear stones, floating tea lights for the top of the cylinders and about 30 votive candles!

Free is VERY nice! haha

We are having a DW so we had to actually buy FH's suit and the groomsmen will be buying their outfits too (just grey pants and a white collared shirt). Renting isn't an option for us since we are all travelling to the Dominican.

My dress! I was definitely budgeting to spend the most of my money on my dress, but I was hoping to keep it reasonable and then I fell in love with an incredible couture gown, but the owner of the store said if I bought it that day (had to be the sample) that I could get it for $1000 instead of $4000! It needs a LOT of alterations but the alterations lady I went to said it will turn out great

My greatest save so far was my invitations, I am DIY as much as possible, so I was excited when I found mine for less then $100.

My greatest save so far was my invitations, I am DIY as much as possible, so I was excited when I found mine for less then $100.

KM...I'm super jealous of you! I really wanted to do a DW!!! It feels like things would have been a million times easier...but, it means more to me to have my grams there and she can't travel.

Our cake! I had priced them out a few local places and found that a cake will cost around $400-500. That's pretty normal I'm finding out. But we got a 16 inch round cake this weekend for our E-Party from Stater Bros. for $30 and it was A-Mazing! Everybody loved it! It was covered in white choc curls and tasted soooo good. So we inquired about their 3 tiered caked. They can do a 3 tier cake for 150 people for under $200. I will add the flowers myself! That's a deal! FH is stoked!!

Oh & the singer for the band we hired offered to MC the reception & play the songs I want during dinner & our first dance, etc. so I do not have to hire a DJ! Yay! That saved at least $500!

So that's a total of approx $800! Really happy about saving $$$

Plates/silverware, I ended up buying for .26/piece vs renting at a minimum of .47/piece with 100 guests and 14 pieces between plates, coffee cups and silverware I've save almost $300 AND I can sell them post-wedding. =)

I'd say invitations as well - I needed to send a total of 105 and received some of the most insaine quotes. Decided to go with the Seal and Send kind - figuring everyone throws them away anyways. We had budgeted $500, with postage for invite and RSVP we spent a total of $175.00!!!! AND everyone adored the Seal and Send.