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FuturemrsH wrote: »

Hi all, i know i have seen a thread somewhere relating to your best money saving ideas and finds for your wedding, but i cant seem to find it so i thought id post mine and ask for your tips and suggestions.

My best buy so far was Favours- silver foil covered Swiss milk Chocolate umberellas from waitrose (they were xmas decorations but expiry daye is 08/2012), they were originally £1.75 each reduced to 10p each!!!

I need to find cheap cream pilliar candles to go in hurricane vases for centrepieces but unsure where to find them?

I also need ideas on a really cheap post box for wedding cards on the day, that looks nice. my colours are dark purple and ivory

Bride2be24

sorry didnt see this lol

FuturemrsH wrote: »

Thank you all for your brilliant suggestions. I will have a look at the suggested sites now.
I forgot to mention i got hurricane vases from dunnes stores- reduced from £10.99 to £1 each.
I love getting a bargain so please keep you tips coming.

Maysie

If your look on ebay for things then don't forget https://www.fatfingers.co.uk for all those typo's its amazing how many people sell wedding dresses wrongly like weeding dress or weddind etc

Muffin86

Hiya, I got married last Saturday so thought I would share some bargains...

Chruch - (£452 - paid extra for bells but didnt have flowers, video, choir etc)
Venue - Booked the old english inn deal as recommended on MSE (£1000)
Cake - Sister in Law made
Hair and Make up - Friend did
Limo - (£200 - travelled to church with BM's and mum and dad in same car saved getting seperate cars for each)
Flower Girl dresses - (BHS sale)
Table Plan - (Made myself)
Invites - Car boot
Table numbers - Ebay (cost less than £2)
Place cards - Ebay (£2)
Photos - Friend did (does photography for a hobby and has all "special" equipment lol)
Flowers - used a local fruit and flower shop as opposed to a "wedding florist" cost £120 for everyones flowers
Mens suits from Matalan

Think thats about it for now xxx

RainbowDrops

My budget for favours has dipped from around £300 to about £30.
I had this well thought out idea for wonderful favours, but realised that although I had put a lot of thought into them, something a lot cheaper would be fine, and my guests would probably be fine with them regardless!

Dress - I could never spend £1,000 on a dress (though I can see the temptation). Luckily a friend has offered to make me one as a gift, all I have to do is buy the materials, for about £250.

BMs dresses - these will be off the rail high street, hopefully around £50-60 each. And I'm not buying shoes / accessories. I'd rather they be comfy in their own style.

No wedding car (no need really)

DJs will be mates, so free (though we're still paying for a band).

laurarobby

well we are just starting to plan our wedding now but think i have some good deals..

My wedding ring is a ring from my Grandma which was her mothers (not her wedding ring but its a lovely band) it looked really old and need resizing cost me £30 for the resizing and continuation of the pattern on it and its so shiney looks like brand new!
Hubby to be's ring i have a little bag of old 9ct gold jewelry broken necklaces earings rings etc there is about 9grms which i took into Hugh rice jewlers and they quoted me £60 for a ring to be made for OH the same as mine

wedding favours. 50 little organza bags from ebay £3.99 silver chocolate hearts 200 for £4ish i think that will do for them

planning to have the whole day at holiday inn £1299 package although the registra is another £300 on top of that!

invites from vistaprint.

also ill use quidco to get cashback on everything

Fawny_2

All these tips are great. I keep taking to oh about us getting married & he says we can't afford it yet, but these tips are great to help me convince him we don't need to spends thousands & thousands.

codemonkey

Bargains I have so far.

Dress - was planning to get this second hand but my mum put her foot down and said she'd buy this. Just as well as I can't find a second hand version of my dress anywhere. Saved money still by going to a dress shop out of the way a bit, where the prices were lower. Dresses I tried on in the city were around £1400. My dress costs a little under £600 new.

Bridesmaid's - bought their dresses new from an eBay seller mentioned on here before. Cost £32.99 each and look like they cost three times that. Shoes I bought in bhs sale.

My shoes - rainbow club shoes from ebay. Rrp £70 and I got them for £10.

Veil and tiara - eBay. Couldn't believe how much the bridal shops wanted four them.

We also saved a couple of thousand by having our wedding on a Sunday. Sadly we didn't realise that would make so many other things way more expensive though.

LaurensMummy

You don't need to spend a fortune to have a lovely day: So far we've spent:
Registry Office - £112.50
Reception - £150 (local footy club)
DJ - £200 (a friend of ours)
Wedding dresss- £40 (got mine in from Roman Originals sale)
Invites - £0 (free from Vistaprint)

Left to do:
Flowers - my cousin is a florist so hoping for family discount
Food - mums friend is an ex-caterer so she is doing
Cake - friend of MIL is doing
Cars - using our own
Photos - taking our own (small ceremony close family only)
Suits - prob buying cheap from Matalan
Decorations - from ebay

See you can do your day on a budget, we are hoping to spend 1-1.5k - we always put it off thinking it cost thousands, but then I found this site and found it so helpful cutting costs!:rotfl:

she_mac

Hey,

Here's some suppliers that I used....and some tips. We managed a castle wedding for under £10k so felt like real achievement

- http://www.cutemaps.co.ukSuper gorgeous personalised wedding invites (postcards) I got them with a discount flyer so they came in at just under £1 each.
- http://www.momentville.com Free wedding websites. I used the postcard to direct people to our wedding website which had all the full info on it
- http://freegiftregistry.com We put a link on our website to this. It meant our registry consisted of ANYTHING we could find for sale on the web!
- http://www.trianglenursery.co.uk I designed all my own flowers. I had elaborate tree centerpieces that would have cost the earth, but managed to do all of our flowers on £300
- http://www.bestbridalprices.com Everything I liked seemed designer so I bought a simple mermaid Alfred Angelo from this site for $400 and then had a designer out a strange bow and over the shoulder detail on it - total cost £430
- http://www.ebay.co.uk Bought tons on here from card to deco. I bought wooden monogram letters for £2 each, painted them white and hung them around everywhere with pretty ribbon
- http://www.michaeldark.co.uk Excellent for buying bulk decoration bits. I bought dried rose petals instead of confetti. A 2 litre bag was apx £10
- http://www.etsy.com absolutely awesome website for all things cute and crafty. I bought a really unique fabric necklace on here for my bridesmaids
- http://www.stylemepretty.com not a supplier but the best blog for wedding inspiration!
- http://www.marthastewart.com the wedding section has hundreds of unique diy projects!

Good, good luck with your big day!!