Wedding on a budget, please help?

LolitaLove

skint_chick wrote: »

We got married on a tight budget and I actually enjoyed spending time with friends making things myself - invitations I designed myself and got printed online from www.fileprint.org - it gives you a list of sizes and paper types then a list of companies and their prices. I got my invites for less than a store bought pack - hand delivering where poss cut down postage costs too.

Flowers I went to local flower store the day of the wedding and bought 10 gerberas for £10 and they threw in ribbon the same colour as my bridesmaid dress so I just wrapped them in ribbon and taped the end under. The favours were Ferrero Rocher wrapped in silver tissue paper - I cut circles round a side plate used two layers of tissue paper gathered at the top tied with 1kea ribbon to match the bridesmaid and curled with scissors, cost just over a fiver as the sweets were on sale! Or you can get clear cellophane bags off ebay for a pound or two and fill them with colourful sweets and add some ribbon.

Cake was from M&S for £30 and then bought a sheet of pre rolled coloured icing and cut out our names using a set of alphabet cutters. Table decorations were silver candle plates from 1kea with some coloured stones and a round candle that we lit at night - this cost about £20 in total.

If your friend is well enough to help with the making of things it's nice to have some girly bonding sessions talking about memories of family weddings etc and take some pics of this too for future memories. Most people have good digital cameras these days so ask them to make you cds of the pics they take (you can get these from pound shops in packs) and then put the nicest ones into an album - Boots do some nice ones.

Hope you create a lovely day for her

Thank you, you've given me some fab ideas!