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Did you know that you can have an affordable elegant summer wedding , by making a few adjustments to your wedding budget. Here are 10 suggestions to help you save costs on your wedding.

• First ask your your wedding attendants to purchase or rent their own wedding attire. You don’t necessarily need to have all your bridesmaids wearing the same dress. You may want to tell your bridesmaids and groomsmen your color or theme preferences and allow your attendants the freedom to choose the style of dress or  dress shirt that they want. For your bridal dress you may want to check out a second hand wedding dress store, or look for a local discount wedding dress store in your area. You may want to consider renting your dress.

• Second, consider having your wedding at a location that has natural beautiful scenery, like an aboreteum , garden, or lakefront.  There will be no need for the expense of decorations when you can use nature as your decorations. Also by having your ceremony at an outdoor venue, rather then in a church you will cut out the cost of renting a church.

• Third, make inexpensive summer centerpieces with fresh cut summer flowers placed in a vase on top of a mirrored circular placemate surrounded by small elegant heart shaped votive candles.

• Fourth, as far as you wedding cake costs, you can save money by  calling a local culinary school to see if the students would be willing to prepare your wedding cake at cost.

• Fifth, cut out the cost of  your cake topper and wedding cake cuterly by registering for these items as gifts you would like to receive prior to the weding at your bridal shower. Allow one of your guests, friends or family to purchase these items for you as a gift.

• Sixth, purchase inexpensive bouquets and dress them up yourself with babies breath, lace, pearls and beads.

• Seventh , for really great table favors and place card holders you can save lots of money by purchasing a table favor that doubles as a placecard holder. You can give your guests a mini photo frame or frosted glass frame placecard holder that your guest are sure to enjoy long after the wedding. Elegant Shower Favor.com has a hugh selection of affordable favors, and they even have free shipping on favor and gift orders of $ 100 or more.

• Eighth, to save costs on food served at your wedding, negotiate the cost of the food with the caterer or wedding reception facility. Choose foods that would require the same ingredients like a chicken vesuvio and a chicken parmesian. This will save on costs. Also be sure to ask the caterer or reception hall for discounts on meals for children. You should never have to pay full price for a meal for a child.

• Ninth, serve a limit on the type of alcohol you serve at your wedding. Think about a kegs of beer or a beer truck that serves beer and wine from the tap. Limit the chooses of alcohol or offer a few specialty drinks that would coordinate with your wedding theme. Or consider an alcohol free wedding.

• Tenth, save money on your photographer and DJ or Bands by shopping around. You may be able to save boo ko bucks on these services by asking a local  college for names of photography and film students who would be willing to provide photography and videotaping services very inexpensively.  Also remember that you can get  lots of great wedding pictures  from your guests. Put camera’s on the reception tables and ask your guests to take pictures and leave the cameras behind so you can develop your pictures yourself at a Sams club or Costco.

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   July 19th, 2008 at 12:59 am

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