Wedding blues

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Not a sick Yam!! Feel better.

View Quoted Comment Lol you’re welcome hun. The memory’s still fresh from planning my own wedding. It’s 100% do-able don’t worry! For your vendors check out Thumbtack and Gigsalad. It’ll only show you vendors in your budget and you can choose how many hours you need. You only have to contact someone when you’re ready to book! I found my caterer/photographer/band that way. Vendors are willing to work with weekday weddings a lot more so get excited!
Let me know if you need any more help. I’m on the forums a lot since my wedding is this month. ❤️ Good luck!

View Quoted Comment Always a sick Yam lately! Thank you

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Sorry to hear it.

It is definitely do-able but some suggestions for saving money would be skip the DJ and use a playlist, keep the guest list small (50 or under), have the reception early in the day and have a cake and punch reception, Davids Bridal always has sales on dresses...I got my dress for $99! As far as venues, look into local parks or community centers. Keep the decorations to a minimum, DIY what you can. You can do this!

My wedding isn't until next oct. I search ebay and Amazon for deals on random things and save them to my wish lists. Every couple of weeks I use some extra money to order things off the list within the budget of the extra.

Https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/boswell-hall-bowie-md-489569

This place looks really affordable with their smaller package

We are also on an extremely tight budget. We're having the wedding in my parents backyard, and we are literally DIYing EVERYTHING. We made our save the dates and invitations on a photo editing app and had everything printed off at Office Depot for cheap. For music, we're investing in a loud speaker (approx. $300) and playing our own playlist. We've asked my brother to officiate. Food is something we're unsure of at this point. We have plans to talk with a couple of caterers, but we've also considered grilling out or having some sort of potluck. It'll all come together! Try not to stress. You only get to plan this day once!

We’re doing it with a $5k budget. It’s hard to do. We just sat down one weekend and made takes about how much we’re willing to do as far as DYI. Which I watched YouTube (A LOT)!! Flowers we went to different florist and then looked at places like the grocery store, Sam’s Club etc....to see where we got the best price for flowers. Plus I got a lot (okay everything from local Dollar Store some at Michael’s) for decor pieces Y’all can do the same you just have to see what you can or are willing to do yourself.

5k is our budget too. We found an all inclusive party boat, doing 25 guests, ceremony, officiant, dinner, DJ for one dance dedicated to us (public cruise) reserved area for our dinner, cake cutting service, champagne toast, and 3 hour sunset cruise for $1500. We’ll be able to do a mini-moon/family vacay and air bnb, and most of our travel for 5 ppl under our budget. My dress was $80 on Poshmark, his suit pants and vest under $100 at Kohl’s. Doing our own cupcakes as I’m a baker. Hardest budget expense right now is photography but I may have that covered for about $500. Keep the faith - it can be done!

My budget is 5k and our wedding is 22 days is gonna be gorgeous.

no venue. we’re doing a restaurant $42 a head and $20 a head for kids.

cake is the bakery at a grocery store. i sent all my pinterest pics in. they’re doing it. my $180 cake from them was quoted $700 from the bakery down the road.

no flowers except for my bouquet. $90 wegmans

no dj. (spotify)
no photographer

no freaking bridal party.

its really possible. our ceremony venue cost $100. it’s a “public park” aka a castle called Kips Castle on the mountains overlooking new york city.



my wedding is going to be amazing. and its 5k!!!

Look at a destination wedding and bring a small group! You will still have the ceremony and reception with your closest loved ones. New Orleans has a bunch of small wedding packages!

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Sounds amazing!!!