Some brides and grooms spend thousands and thousands of dollars on their dream weddings. With careful preparation and effort, you can plan an affordable wedding that results in an equally enjoyable experience to a wedding that costs thousands of dollars more. Trim your budget of professional services and accessories that family and friends can provide for lower costs or even for free.
Plan a Low Budget Wedding
You will remember your wedding day for the rest of your life, no matter the size of your cake or the cost of your dress. Make the most of your small budget by planning ahead and utilizing all your resources. A low budget wedding can be just as glamorous as an expensive one, if done right. Give yourself the fairy tale wedding you desire without going bankrupt.
Start a Wedding Chapel Business
Starting a wedding chapel business can be a financially and emotionally rewarding endeavor. Making your wedding chapel a one-stop shop for couples planning their big day can raise your profits significantly and make yours the chapel of choice in your local area.
Become a Professional Wedding Decorator
From centerpieces to table draping, professional wedding decorators help a couple choose and implement an overall theme for their wedding. As a professional wedding decorator, you can own your own business and assist couples with decorating the church, reception hall and any other room in which their wedding will be celebrated. Using your creativity, you handle all the important visual details of a wedding, including color scheme, flower arrangements, fabric and any other other decorative elements that will enhance wedding space.
Call Off a Wedding With Class
"The Runaway Bride" isn't just a Julia Roberts movie. No amount of work invested in a wedding can protect it from the whims of human nature, as evidenced by the horror tales of people who get cold enough feet weeks or days before the ceremony that they blow the whistle on a reception that cost tens of thousands of dollars. And we won't even start on infidelity during the courtship, which has toppled many a wedding cake.
Such drama that makes for great cinema means tears, tantrums and a loss of big bucks in real life. But what if you find yourself standing in those running shoes? What if you realize at the zero hour that the woman you imagined bearing your children is not who you thought she was, her real nature having been revealed during the stress of the wedding plans? How do you handle it with class, if that's at all possible?
The best guideline is the old adage of, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Think of how you'd feel if you were the one who just got dumped only days before she was going to wear a dress her father just spent $5,000 on. You'd want--and deserve--a certain amount of sympathy and respect.
You're going to need a lot of patience in dealing with many people asking why . . . and some very disappointed parents who are now wondering if they can recoup anything on the catering bill. You're also got a lot of phone calls to make.