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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurel" data-source="post: 2393421" data-attributes="member: 17067">Not sure if this will help any.....As some have said asking friends for those small favors is generally the biggest saver. There is also letting people know that it is okay to help out the wedding as part or all of their gift. My brother and now wife had a very low budget wedding, but it was still very beautiful and memorable. The big thing is not to push it all on a few people but spread things out. Her mom's best friend was a florist, so they went to the local Michaels during their big floral sale and got everything then. The florist then spent what time she needed over a few months putting things together. The church was free since she had gone there since she was baptized. They got the basic package from a professional photographer, but had lots of us lined up for extra pictures. She still claims some of her best pictures are ones her friends took. Her uncle sells cars so he ask what they wanted as they drive away vehicle for free (he just had to act as chuffer). Since everyone was at the same hotel they let us have one of their downstairs meeting rooms for after the wedding for around $50. We got a special group rate for the slow home cooked B-B-Q place down the road to deliver, and one of her good friends growing up had become a local baker for the dessert portion. The alcohol was set up through a few people one person they knew at a liquor store, another at a grocery store (for the wine and beer). It turned out that we had a stereo system and video screen in the room, and asked one person to play DJ. It as more just changing CD's, and she had made a single CD for their special dance songs already. Most everyone brought a few so it was a cool mix of songs, and the bride had her option of saying no to certain things (something you may try and get over rules with professional DJ) From my own- We used the same paper for everything, and just took it in mass to the local printer. We had used the computer to format the original script and design, but then just saved it to disk. They can also fold the paper into whatever division you need, and adding a little ribbon is easy. If you have a half-way decent printer though, it also works to just print most of it yourself. We also had cupcakes instead of a cake- used some ribbon and wood and presto great looking center peice.  We also got small take out type boxes and gave them away as our gift- getting two things off the check list for the price of one <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As a general note, when planning mine I got told by a lot of places they had super deals for Sept. 11th. I can understand the hesitance anyone would have for a party on that date, but I know even more that would be okay with it.... just to throw it out there. I have been to some spectacular and amazingly inexpensive weddings, it just took a lot more prep work for the couple.  PS- Dextra I love the sound of yours!</blockquote>

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