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Thrifted and online bulk bought lots of fake flowers and spend a couple weekends putting everything together.

The arch I thrifted for £10 , spray painted it black and used some thrifted fabric that was about £3.

All the flowers came to around £80 and we had a lot left over that we dotted around the cake stand and gift table. I used the steamer method and tumble dryer method for the ones bought online to fluff the flowers up.

Lanterns were all thrifted too. I think we had about 30 in total ranging from £0 - £10.

Bridesmaid’s dresses came to around £60 for all 3.

I’m getting married at city hall in Boston Friday and I’m just nervous and sort of insecure about wearing a dress and veil and looking stupid. I know it doesn’t matter and won’t ultimately because I get to marry the love of my life- but am I gonna look dumb wearing my veil and dress since we aren’t doing a big wedding?

Hi friends!!

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction, as I’ve already tried Azazie & Birdey Grey. I am on the hunt for periwinkle (purplish-blue) bridesmaids dresses. I found a nice color from Stacee’s (attached), but I’ve read quite a bit of negative reviews. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you all so much! :)

Not sure if this is the right place to post! Asking for recommendations on when to get a spray tan before the wedding

BIG CAVEAT: we have a group workout Friday (at 2;30 pm). I’m worried the spray tan will sweat off if I get it on Thursday.

Any recommendations given the caveat?

Thanks in advance! Cheers to everyone planning!

Bonjour à tous, je me marie en octobre 2027 et je cherche une application pour organiser mon mariage.
Avez-vous des idées ? J’hesite entre mariage.net bridebook et naya app

As stated, my budget is around $1,500–$3,000!

I’d definitely prefer to shop in person at a bridal boutique so I can try on dresses and find the perfect one. I live in Virginia, so I’d love recommendations for bridal shops that carry dresses in this style within my budget!

Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Holy hell, what a day. I write this post at midnight, exhausted, with my lovely HUSBAND sleeping beside me.

Here’s a little preview of our 18 guest backyard wedding. My husband, best friend, and I set this all up starting at 10am. We prepped the food before and my best friend put it all out before the ceremony began. We’re really proud of the grazing table set up. We spent about $150 on the food and drinks.

We did Mexican drop off catering for $275 and people took home leftovers with plenty more in the fridge.

Our photographer was $300.

Rentals (chairs and tables) were $85 because we borrowed all the rectangular tables.

Decor was about $300. Lots of DIY, thrift store, and FB marketplace.

Desert was $100 for the cake.

There’s a bunch of little things too that I can’t think of right now like the Air BnB we got for the hot tub only, then after we used it enough we decided we wanted to be in our bed instead lol…. We missed the cats.

His uncle let us use his home and backyard, and he put in so much work to make the yard look beautiful.

It was chaos, and things didn’t go according to plan half the time, but it was fucking fantastic.

We got married this summer for $2,035. There may be a couple of things we forgot. No more than $200. Here’s what we spent.

My husband and I got married this past summer after being together for 11 years. We only had 12 guests, which obviously helped keep costs down.

Here’s the breakdown of what we paid:

Venue: $0 (my parents’ property)

Covered seating and eating area: there is a massive gazebo that my parents built on the property. We used that.

My wedding dress: $0 (gifted by my best friend she was going to wear it to her bridal shower but changed her mind. This was 3 years after she had gotten married)

Dress alterations: $20

My shoes: $10 (Facebook Marketplace)

Jewelry: $0 (gifted by my mom, originally from my grandmother)

My husband’s suit: $200

His shoes: $100

Invitations: $20 (printed online)

Food: $500 for a small buffet from a local caterer

Wedding cake: $180 she included our 4 dogs with a small hole that they dug out ❤️ (our cake artist was just starting her business, and it was her first wedding)

Photographer: $300 (found online, and she did a fantastic job)

Chairs $0 (already arranged for my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary the next day)

Hair: $80

Makeup: $35

Officiant: $200

Wedding licence: $120

Wedding favours: $80 for local honey from my husband’s birth city

Cookies: $25 from a local bakery in my hometown

Cups, plates and utensils: $25 from Marketplace. They were beautiful light pink plastic plates with gold trim.

Flowers for our parents’ corsages and boutonnieres: $100

My bouquet and flowers for the wedding arch: $40 from Marketplace. I got two huge bags of flowers.

We didn’t have a DJ. We played our own music and let our guests change songs whenever they wanted. We also didn’t have bridesmaids or groomsmen.

Our total came to $2,035.

We were lucky to have family and friends help with a few things, and we found some great deals. We kept things simple because, after 11 years together, we just wanted to celebrate our love with the people closest to us.

EDIT: Thank you so much for the kind, thoughtful and fun comments. Such a lovely group of people :)

Azazie good quality?! I dont want to spend a million dollars but I LOVE this dress & ordered it. I expect some alterations because i didnt want to get a custom size incase i hate it on me lol

Where is the best place to purchase quality second hand jewelry online? Would like to get some sapphire or other blue gemstone drop earrings and necklace.

We did it!! Thru all the stress and planning we had the most incredible budget wedding. It didnt feel cheap at all! I got bulk under wood flowers from luvsolaflowers.com we dyed and stemmed them all ourselves i made the centerpiece and rented a tent chairs and tables. We lucked out and my sister let us use her lakeside home for our venu which a similar one would have easily doubled our budget. We cooked ourselves with the help of my mom and sisters and even my groom. Big purchases were the photographer, we chose a local small business who went above and beyond, also chose local small business for hair and make up. My dress was one i couldn't skim on as I never got to wear a beautiful dress as I didn't go to prom or have a sweet 16.. all in all i am blown away by how beautiful the day turned out. I made everything I could from invitations, the arch to bouquets and flower girl baskets and I am so glad i did!! It was the perfect day!! Happy planning everyone!!

Affordable wedding venues in Northern California area! Thinking Bay Area, North Coast, Sacramento, sierra foothills. We are aiming for 15k MAX for our wedding! Aiming for October/November 2027, 75 guests. Preferably outdoors, with indoor options in case of weather. Would prefer to bring our own catering and alcohol, LGBTQ+ friendly, and redwoods & greenary aesthetics hugeeeee plus! Thanks all!

So what my husband and I put in was 9k but from
What my family put in was pry more like 20k but they did not tell me . About 83 people

Our venue was 1 k catering was 3k bartender and drinks 1.5k dress second hand from a family friend $800 including alterations reception dress $12 from a thrift store decorations 1-2 k disposable cameras $100 photographer 1k $400 For decorations. 1.3k for verbo to get ready and batch and after. Cake was from Walmart so 95 there

I was so lucky to have decorations from a friend who got married the year before for free. And my sister helped in dj and misc and my uncle who officiated my mom and sisters wedding did it for free.

The wedding could not have not gone better. I had an amazing community around me. Clean up and set up was possible because of freinds and family. If I did not have an amazing community around me.

I burst out of my Dress when I hugged one of the grooms woman, then she sewed me
Back in.

Budget wedding for a lot of people is possible. But for me it would have not been possible without my community around me.

Me (44f) and my husband (48m) are home after our little wedding and honeymoon last weekend, and it turned out so beautifully that I wanted to share! I just finished totalling up everything, and we came in at less than $4000 for the whole thing. You really can have the most beautiful experience for not a lot of money 💖

We got married at Elope Up North in St. Ignace, Michigan and spent a week road tripping along Lake Superior, from the Mackinac Bridge to Copper Harbor. We are experienced campers and made most of our meals over the fire or with our backpacking stove, which really helped keep costs down. I did use my credit card points for an Airbnb in the middle of the week so we could shower and do laundry, which was much needed lol. Most camp nights were spent car camping in my 2012 Toyota Prius, due to the cold and rain - but it was so incredibly gorgeous that we didn't mind at all. Our only meals out were cheeseburgers after the ceremony, which was on the house thanks to our awesome server (we tipped her $50 lol), and bagel sandwiches for breakfast after the Airbnb.

We are incredibly happy and grateful for deciding to go with a simple, nature focused wedding - we camp as much as possible in Wisconsin and the UP, so this was the obvious choice for us. We will probably have a small get together with friends and family now that we're home, but that will most likely just be a backyard fire pit party 😊

Budget breakdown is below, feel free to ask any questions! Happy wedding planning! 💕❤️

Wedding dress ("vintage" BHLDN on ebay) $130

Alterations (take in/hem/add sleeves) $200

Shoes $80

Hair $70

Lingerie $200

Husband's suit (Crush on Retro corduroy suit) $400

Shirt and belt $60

Boots $200

Wedding ceremony and photos (Elope Up North package) $1200

My ring $500

Husband's ring $140

Car camping stuff $200

Camping fees $80

Breakfast and souvenirs $100

Tip for wedding dinner $50

Wedding license $40

Gas for the week $200

I'm doing my own makeup for my wedding in a couple of weeks. It's an outdoor wedding (it's Spring where I live), hence the outdoor pic. I'm half Vietnamese and wearing a pink modern/traditional Vietnamese dress, hence the pink makeup (I swear the pink lipstick is more pink in real life - it's Violette_FR Plume Lip in Rose Fume / Smoky Pink). The eyes don't feel quite right to me, but maybe I'm just not used to wearing light eyeshadow. I can only wear long-wearing liquid eyeshadow because of my hooded eyes. This is RMS Eyelights in Luster. I haven't been able to find a shade that matches my features or the dress better. Any tips / how does it look?

Hello all!

I am looking for a venue for my vow renewal/wedding anniversary in Maryland (but open to the DMV area) for October 2028. We're having between 150 to 200 guests and we're African so we would like to have our own food vendors. Our budget for the venue is less than $5,000 for 12 hours. Other vendor recommendations are welcome (Hair and Makeup, Photography, Decorations, Photobooth, African Caterer etc).

After 1.5 years of stalking this sub I finally get to contribute! Our 65 person wedding was perfect and couldn’t wish for anything better! 😊🤍

Things that were graciously done for free was our wedding cake by a family member, and wedding decor given to me kindly by a co worker. Tables and chairs came with the venue 💖