Specific Savings Strategies for Your Wedding Planning
Discover targeted ways to cut costs without compromising your wedding dreams. These strategies can make a significant difference in your overall expenses while still ensuring a memorable celebration.
Wedding Planner
Average cost: $3,200
Wedding planners are worth their weight when it comes to cost savings as they can tap into their industry resources and contacts to find effective ways to save money that you might not have considered. This is their area of expertise, so take advantage of it!
If you feel you’ve got this, then consider getting a day-of coordinator. They can help take the stress out of all the details on your wedding day, leaving you to have your best day ever.
Wedding Attire
Average cost: $2,300
Current trends lean towards more environmentally conscious choices, so consider renting your wedding dress and bridesmaids’ dresses. Poshare and Dare and Dazzle offer high-end designer dresses for a fraction of the purchase price, eliminating the need to preserve the dress in acid-free paper and box in the attic.
Wedding E-vites
Average cost $400
Embrace the digital age! Send invitations through the Internet. It is an eco-friendly and efficient way to manage your guest list while saving money on paper stock, printing, and postage.
Websites such as Green Envelope have online wedding invitations where guests can RSVP online, and you can track responses. If you definitely want physical invitations, consider having guests RSVP online. You are also saving on return postage.
Ditch printing and posting Save the Date cards. These can be online too.
For printed materials:
- engraving is the most expensive
- thermography is cheaper and has an embossed effect
- off-set printing is best for large printing jobs
- digital or flat printing is the most economical
- limit the number of colors on your invitations and programs
Keep your invitation envelopes within a reasonable weight. All the extra papers pile on the ounces that will cost you more at the post office.
Print fewer menus. You don’t need one for every seat. Or even better, ditch them altogether. You can add an elegant noticeboard for guests to read as they enter the reception room.
The same goes for programs. Guests are willing to share unless it’s the middle aged ladies who are snatching them up to use as fans!
Instead of name cards, have guests locate their table on a cafe-style board next to the guest signing table. They can look up their table assignment while waiting to sign the book.
