For years I’ve been telling brides how to plan their dream weddings on any kind of budget. I do it for several reasons, and not only because I want brides to know that they can have a great wedding with budget wedding planning the right way to save money.   But that’s not the only reason I’m here to help brides out with budget wedding planning. I understand that planning a wedding is hard, and it should be one of the happiest days of your life. If you’re stressed out over your budget wedding planning and think you can’t afford anything for a nice wedding, I’m here to lift you out of that hopeless feeling as well. Budget wedding planning is possible – and not nearly as hard as you would think. I’m not going to advise you to take up glass blowing so that you can make 200 wedding favors by hand for each guests – that’s foolish. You see, when I was planning my own wedding, I learned a lot about budget wedding planning, and I didn’t learn it the easy way. I mean, nobody took me aside and showed me all the different ways to save money on my wedding, not enough money to make a difference anyway. My wedding vendors certainly weren’t interested in the fact that I was budget wedding planning, they’re out to make their own money. No, I had to learn budget wedding planning the hard way, and many things I didn’t learn about until after the wedding (and believe me – I’m still kicking myself now!). So here are some great tips for budget wedding planning that can really help you out that I can show you right now. Read the rest of this entry »

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Most women have been planning for their wedding day from from the time they were little girls, putting pillow cases on their heads, wearing their mom’s high heels and imagining a handsome prince charming down at the altar waiting for her. Well now that you’ve gotten engaged and you can start planning that dream wedding you’ve always wanted, you may discover that when it comes to how to plan a wedding, you’re totally stuck. Truthfully, weddings are the biggest, most important and most expensive days of your entire life, and you want everything to be beautiful and go off without a hitch. But if you don’t know how to plan a wedding, how in the world can you make sure that you’re remembering everything – or that your wedding will be exactly how you’ve always dreamed it would be. I know that when my husband and I were planning our own wedding, I didn’t know the first thing about how to plan a wedding – simply because I’d never done it before.  Nearly all brides are in the same situation that I was in, you’ve got this wedding to plan for and coordinate, and up until now the most complicated party you’ve ever thrown was a pizza party in your dorm room. But did you know that there is a perfect place to start when you’re looking at how to plan a wedding? It’s simple, and I can get you started.

How to Plan a Wedding – The First Place to Start

When you’re looking at how to plan a wedding, the first step that you want to take isn’t anything close to what most brides assume that it is supposed to be. Read the rest of this entry »

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Have you ever seen or heard of cupcake centerpieces for a wedding? I was a little surprised when I heard about them, but after a few minutes the idea make a lot of sense. Cupcake wedding cakes are such a hot and trendy item at weddings, and some brides use miniature wedding cakes as their centerpieces to play a sort of double duty of centerpiece and wedding cake. So if you’re planning on having cupcake wedding cakes at your wedding instead of the large traditional wedding cake, and still don’t know what kind of wedding centerpieces you want to have for your wedding, why not consider this novel idea of cupcake centerpieces for your own wedding? Here are a few great ideas on how to pull off the idea.

Rent Your Cupcake Stands

When I first heard this idea, my first thought was that cupcake stands are pretty inexpensive, so why not just buy your own? Read the rest of this entry »

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Weddings are a joyous occasion, one filled with love, hope for a beautiful future together, excitement in planning the most important day of your life, and anxiety on hoping that everything goes off without a hitch. But now with today’s economy and brides having to look for new and more inventive ways to save money on their weddings, a lot of the old trends for weddings are taking a more economical approach.  Our tight economy has many brides using iPods instead of hiring a wedding DJ, afternoon weddings with cake and punch receptions instead of a fancy sit down dinner, and homemade wedding cakes instead of the more expensive bakery wedding cake. Homemade wedding cakes can be a great place to save money on your wedding by having a close friend or family member having such a large part in your wedding day. Homemade wedding cakes are the best way to have a truly unique and personalized wedding cake, which many times is even made by the bride herself. But if you’re wondering how a normal everyday girl can create homemade wedding cakes to impress, here are some great facts you should know.

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For some women, decorating spaces comes naturally, and for others of us, it takes a little bit of work and planning to make it all come together and look right. I’m in that second category. So when it came time to start decorating for my wedding, I found myself at a loss. Especially when it came to church decorations. You really only have so much to work with in church decorations, with the three basic spots for decoration being the altar, the aisle and your pew decorations. Pew decorations play a very important role in church wedding decorations, and are one of the best ways to make an inexpensive impact on your ceremony decor. If you’re not careful and thrifty with your money, pew decorations from a florist can be really expensive, and sometimes renting them will cost more than you want to pay as well. So here are some great ideas for inexpensive pew decorations you can do yourself that can make a big difference.

Pew Decorations with Bows

Probably the most traditonal and recognized kind of pew decorations that brides use are pew bows.

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Have you always dreamed of having a beach wedding? Many brides have always been able to envision themselves on a beach somewhere with the wind blowing through their hair, surrounded by friends and family as they say their wedding vows. If you are one of those brides, then perhaps a destination wedding to a nearby beach or lake would be just perfect for you. But of course, if you are planning a beach wedding, then eventually you’re going to have to answer the question about what kinds of wedding dresses for the beach you have to choose from. After all, not many brides want to wear a big fancy white wedding dress to a beach wedding where it could get dirty. Beach weddings are naturally more casual than other kinds of weddings and you really don’t want to overdo it. So if you’re considering having a beach wedding, here are some great tips for finding wedding dresses on the beach to complete your perfect wedding day look.

Great Styles for Wedding Dresses for the Beach

One of the best ways to find wedding dresses for the beach is to find a particular style or type of wedding dress you want to wear for your wedding.

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Has the thought of a spring or summer wedding never really appealed to you? Are you planning a fall or autumn wedding instead? Fall is a beautiful time of the year for weddings with all the colors and options you have available – you’re sure to find some great ideas for fall wedding centerpieces.  Many brides have a lot of trouble trying to decide what kinds of wedding centerpieces to put on their tables,  I know that I sure did anyway. Your wedding centerpieces are so important, because they really are the focal point of your wedding tables, as each of your wedding guests will be looking at them throughout your wedding reception. The right wedding centerpieces can transform an ordinary room into whatever look you’re trying to go for. One of the best ways to choose wedding centerpieces is to choose a theme for your wedding. So if you’re planning a fall wedding, you might want to choose some centerpieces related to the season of your wedding. Here are some great ideas for fall wedding centerpieces.

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Are you looking for a new kind of wedding cake that isn’t your traditional round tiered wedding cake? Square wedding cakes are a pretty new modern trend that many brides are going with to help make their wedding cake stand out from the rest. Square wedding cakes can be anything from traditional to trendy for a great eye catching decoration at your wedding reception. Let’s face it, even though some people aren’t big fans of cake, they still look forward to seeing what kind of wedding cake you chose to have at your reception, and they’ll probably try it as well, so you need to pick a wedding cake design and shape that suits you best. For me, square wedding cakes are more of my style, but that isn’t the shape that I went with in the end, but I kind of wish I could.  So here are a few of my favorite things about square wedding cakes.

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What do you think about black and white weddings? Black and white is a very popular color combination for weddings, and they can be truly elegant when done correctly, and if I had to do my wedding all over again, a black and white wedding would be a very tempting choice. But have you ever seen black and white wedding dresses before? I’ve of course always seen the wedding dresses with a splash of color, and had seen wedding dresses with popular colors such as red, pink and blue of course, but I really had never seen black and white wedding dresses until just a few days ago when I was doing some researching for black and white weddings. So if you’re planning a black and white wedding, and are perusing black and white wedding dresses, here is some great information I found to help you out!

Black and White Wedding Dresses are Un-Traditional

Admittedly, I haven’t lived that long, but I’ve never seen one event in people’s lives which is as steeped in tradition as weddings are.

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Are you still trying to find your dream wedding dress that doesn’t cost so much? Coming from experience, it can be really hard to do.  I’ve given some great ideas on how to find the perfect wedding dress for you, either from how to design your own wedding dress, or going with vintage wedding dresses to save money, but today I’m going to take it one step further and suggest going with used wedding dresses. The idea can make most brides start quaking and getting repulsed with just the mention of going with used wedding dresses on their wedding day. I know I shrunk away from the idea of used wedding dress when I was planning my own wedding – but hear me out real quick because I’ve learned a lot about them lately. Used wedding dresses are a great way to save potentially thousands of dollars without anyone noticing anything. Plus, and here is something that most brides don’t know about either – but a common misconception about used wedding dresses is that they were all previously worn on someone else’s big day, which isn’t always the case. Interested in hearing more? So if you’re trying to find your dream wedding dress and have been thinking used wedding dresses weren’t going to be an option for you, here are some great reasons why you might want to look into used wedding dresses.

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