Things You Can Do Without

Budgetting a wedding is never an easy task. But among all the things you have to think of, maybe some aren’t exactly mandatory, and nobody would mind you if you were to do without them. I’ve been researching this a little, and here are a few suggestions that maybe, just maybe, will help you prepare better.

• Wedding cars. They are nice, but depending on the distance between the church and reception hall, maybe they’re not worth it. After all, your guests will see you for one or two minutes in it; perhaps finding another way (going on foot, borrowing a nice car from a friend…) would be more useful here.
• Invites and RSVP cards. For small to medium-sized weddings, and if your every day life committments allow you to do so, doing them yourself will help you save enough money in terms of print workshop’s costs. Besides, even if it takes more time, it can also be itneresting to do.
• Pictures. Don’t worry, it’s not about not taking any! But if it is possible, ask your photographer for all the prints, CDs and negatives and create your own photo books and duplicates to share. This should be less expensive than having said photographer do everything.
• Chair covers. If your relatives and friends are like mine, they’ll throw their jackets over them anyway. Nobody will really pay attention.
• Favours. From what I’ve found out, many people won’t even notice if you don’t have them.
• Dessert. Instead of having a dessert AND a wedding cake, why not make the cake your dessert? In every wedding I’ve been, meals were so filling that it was quite hard for the guests to ‘have room’ for a dessert and a wedding cake.

There are probably other things one could do without, but I hope these few ideas will be of help all the same.