Holiday Wedding Ideas

Yes! It's holiday wedding time again... So, I suppose you need some money saving ideas for your holiday or winter wedding? We're here for ya! Here is our best tip for today:

Use the Christmas sale season to get some beautiful, cheap decor. Whether your wedding theme is snowflakes, winter wonderland, lush holiday floral, or ice blue & taupe colors, there are deals to be found on your decor. White lights are in abundant supply, as well as ornaments, candles, platters, baking supplies, and linens.

Come back for more ideas in the next few days. We just love holiday weddings... :-). Visit www.NWweddingplace.com/weddingshop.htm to shop for your wedding now!

Economy Woes Got Your Wedding Budget Down?

Yep. Money is tight for many people right now. However... weddings must go on! Here's the good news - You can still have a great wedding even though prices are up! If money's in a crunch, that just means you need to be a little more creative, that's all.

Could you make this free idea work at your event? *Wedding Dessert Bar*

Ask 12 friends of the family to bring a dessert plate (of whatever they'd like or assign them an item) to the reception on a plate that matches your decor (black, white, ivory, red, silver, whatever). Ask them to bring enough of their item for approx. 25-30 people. Bite sized would be even better and go even farther! 12 people X 25 cookies/brownies/tarts/etc. each should feed about 100 guests comfortably. If 12 people brought 40 bite sized items, that could potentially feed about 135.
Next, set up a long table, decorate it up and leave blank spots for platters & plates. As these people arrive, they can fill in the blank spots with their desserts. Once you add wedding cake to the mix, people will be loving this reception! So will you, since you only spent $$ on your cake!
You could also alter this idea to make it be donated hors d'oeuvres instead!

Go save some money... :-)
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Next post - real examples of cheap wedding ideas used at last week's HUGE wedding event (which I assisted with)! Expect that either tomorrow morning, or Saturday morning. Come back quick!
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Huge Wedding Decor Impact, Small Cost

Hello my wedding bargain buddies!
Last Friday, I helped assemble reception decor for a large wedding. In fact, there were so many guests that a huge tent had to be rented! Tents are fun, but the scale of them is sometimes daunting for appropriately sized decorations. Big space, requires big decor.

Check out this picture:
To achieve this look, you will need the following items:

• A round table
• 4, 6" rectangular tables
• 4, sturdy wood blocks, cinder blocks, or similar
• 2 bolts of tulle fabric
• 10 table cloths (or 6 table cloths and other fabric)
• A couple sturdy boxes
• 16-20 glass candle holders of various shapes/sizes
• Tealights, votives & pillar candles
• 6 strands of white Christmas lights
• Sand
• Food!

Stay tuned for our assembly instructions for this massive wedding reception decor feature!

Dollar Store Wedding Decor

TGIF Readers!

Have you checked out the dollar stores lately? I did last week, and found several items that I can use for an upcoming wedding I'm assisting with.

One, very cheap wedding table decor idea (that we're using for this particular wedding) uses shallow glass bowls or shaped glass vases (must be shallow), fresh flowers to match the wedding floral theme (lilies), clear glass rocks or marbles, tea lights, and votive candles. In keeping with a simple, elegant and sparkly environment we are trying to create, our reception table set-up will be a snap! We'll fill the shallow bowls/vases partially with water. Next, we will insert ONE lily that will drape over the side. Surrounding the vase, several votives and tea lights will be lit. Adding even more sparkle, will be the clear glass rocks spread out randomly around the vase and candles.

Lovely, cheap and simple wedding reception table decor! Browse the dollar store in your area and see what you can find to save wedding budget money. For more brilliant ideas... please visit our main table decor article HERE!

More Cheap Wedding Cake Ideas

OK - I have another great idea for getting a good wedding cake deal. It's simple, yet effective! It will work especially well if you want a simple cake, and you already have your cake topper or will be using fresh flowers as decor/topper.

Ready?

Buy pieces of the cake (the tiers) separately. Call a bakery or grocery store bakery and DO NOT say you want a wedding cake. The minute the words "wedding cake" come out of your mouth... there is an instant markup - cha-ching$$. Ask to purchase plain white or ivory frosted, round or square cakes and see what happens. Hey, for all they know, you could be a PTA mom buying cakes for the school's cake walk!

It's so easy to put your own ribbon around each tier and to place your own topper on the cake!! Anyone with an artistic eye can easily place some fresh flowers around it too, and create a lovely floral topper. Try this tip, and see how it works for you. Good luck!

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Cheapest Wedding Venues

Hello wedding bargain hunters! Are you wondering what the cheapest wedding venues are? In general, we've found these places to be the most affordable venues for weddings:

• Local community centers
• A church that you're a member of/attend
• A public park or garden
• A friend or family member's yard/property
• Beaches
• Your local courthouse

Some of these may have a cost that's actually "free", although all will have costs associated with them one way or another. Each one has advantages and disadvantages, but it all comes down to what you want! After all, it's your wedding...
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