A little creative thinking and discount shopping will help keep the budget in line and leave guests feeling as if they were at a lavish event. a couple can have an elegant, stylish event without breaking the bank.
If the wedding budget is already tight, inexpensive decorations can allow a couple to splurge in other areas. Some expensive decorations that will only be used once, and cheaper decorations can also be more environmentally friendly.
For both the ceremony and the reception, there are a wide variety of cheap wedding decorations that can still be lovely and elegant :
- Flowers : Choose in season blooms for the best prices, and buy flowers from local growers to save on shipping charges. For a casual wedding, consider growing your own flowers or using native wildflowers. Give your wedding aisle and reception tables a decorative boost with silk flower petals.
- Candles : Candles add romantic lighting to your event for pennies. Use garden style centerpieces surrounded by tea lights or votive candles for extra glitter, and place the candles on mirrored bases for elegant reflections.
- Lighting : Change bulbs in lighting fixtures to match your wedding colors for an instant, easy, and cheap way to add color to your reception. Ask friends and family members if you can borrow white twinkle lights to line pillars or drape under tables, and add a disco ball or simple party lights to the dance floor for instant wedding decorations with lights.
- Food : Decorate your reception with the menu itself by adding colorful fruit wedding centerpieces or rich artisan breads to each table. Small bowls of candy or mints are also great decorations.
- Cake : Instead of keeping your wedding cake hidden until it will be unveiled for the cutting, make it a focal point of your reception by setting up a cake table in a prominent location. Add simple decorations to the table and let your guests admire your elegant wedding cake throughout the reception.
- Slideshows: Use a simple projector to turn a blank wall at your reception into an instant showpiece by broadcasting a slideshow that will silently repeat throughout the evening. Slides can include photos of the couple, romantic clip art, wedding phrases, and other related images.
- Nature : Let nature do your decorating. Take advantage of natural beauty such as brilliant fall foliage or spring flowers that can serve as backdrops to your event.
- Balloons : Tastefully done, balloons can be a great decoration for a small budget. Create an entrance arch, elevated centerpieces, or even a whimsical balloon drop for the end of the evening.
- Favors : Make favors serve as cheap wedding decorations. Favors can be coordinated with table decorations and added to each place setting for extra color. Alternatively, arrange matching votive candles with personalized labels in the centers of tables.
- Fabric : Add swags of fabric behind the head table for a soft, luxurious backdrop, or layer colored linens on tables for unique accents instead of plain white linens. Decorating with tulle and other inexpensive fabrics makes it easy to create a tent ceiling to cover plain architecture, or to create a colorful walkway down the aisle or at the reception entrance.
There are a lot of cheap wedding decoration ideas a savvy couple can take advantage of to have a beautiful wedding for a basic budget. With a bit of creativity, your wedding can be gorgeous, and so will your savings.
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Answered by Carolina at Oct 3, 2011 10:13 AM