No one can deny that celebrating a wedding involves a significant investment of money, and many couples’ headaches come from this issue.
We always affirm that it is not necessary to take a mortgage to have a beautiful, emotional, and special wedding. You just need to take into account the budget you want and can invest in the wedding, giving priority to those things that are special to you.
In addition, specialist management companies of experts like Mystical Entertainment Group can help you save money. Below, we give you some tips to reduce your wedding budget, let’s get there!
Manage The Budget In Advance
It is essential that before you start organizing the wedding and hiring suppliers, you know exactly how much money you want to invest in the wedding and how much you are going to allocate for each item. This part of the preparations is essential, which is why we also leave you here on this post with the items that you must take into account to calculate your wedding budget.
Choose The Right Date
If you get married in the low season (normally considered the fall and winter months), you will find that some suppliers offer special prices and discounts. In this way, you can save up to 35% of the price of the banquet, which is normally the item that usually takes the most money of the entire wedding.
Reduce The Guest List
Reducing the number of guests is the best way to reduce the wedding budget. With this, we don’t want to tell you not to invite people who are important to you, but when designing the list, be clear and forget about commitments, people you haven’t seen in years, etc.
Have A Wedding Planner
Contrary to what many people usually think, hiring a wedding planner can save you, in addition to a lot of time and headaches, a lot of money.
Although wedding planners charge fees, in many cases we can get you discounts with suppliers. We know the sector and therefore, we know which providers fit your budget without lowering the quality of service. We help you make that initial budget profitable and get the most out of it!
Compare Prices
There are many providers and each one with its own services and prices. You must compare several to see which service best fits your needs and which budget fits what you can invest.
Of course, it is very important to always look for quality and professional work. Getting a big discount if the service is not good can play tricks on you.
Save On The Wedding Dress
The prices of wedding dresses can vary greatly. It is very important that before going to the store, you take into account your budget limit and let the salesperson know.
This way, you will try on dresses that fit within your budget and you will be disappointed. In addition, nowadays there are outlets where you can find dresses from other seasons at a very good price, or even rent them.
Borrow Something
As the saying goes, at her wedding the bride should wear “something new, something old, something borrowed, and something blue.” Well, there are many things that you can perhaps reuse from other weddings and save money, such as the veil, the can, etc.
Choose a Suitable Menu
As we have already mentioned, the banquet part is the one that will take up the largest volume of the budget. It is important that you choose the wedding menu well and that you keep in mind that you must not only count the price of that menu, but you must also add the price of the open bar and extras.
Set The Duration Of The Open Bar
Most restaurants usually include, either in the menu price or in the standard open bar price, between 2 and 3 hours of open bar. You must keep in mind that overtime hours are not accounted for, so it is something that you must add to your menu price calculations.
Guest Details
More and more couples prefer not to invest a lot of money in the details for the guests and it is a good option to reduce expenses. There are details that from the moment they arrive home, are left abandoned in a drawer.
If you are not going to give something that truly excites you and represents you as a couple, the best option is to discard this item.
Choose Seasonal Flowers
If you want to reduce expenses on your wedding flowers, let your florist advise you and use seasonal flowers. In addition to being cheaper than a specific flower that must be ordered, they will be at the perfect time!
Share Costs
If you get married, for example, in Church and there is a couple who gets married before or after you that same day, you can talk to them to share the floral decoration. Many priests will inform you if this happens to put you in contact with the other couple and in this way you will save 50% on the decoration of this space.