10 ways to save money when planning a wedding

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Wedding celebrations require a lot of expenses. In the absence of financial opportunities for lavish celebrations, you can use a number of methods to minimize wedding expenses. Some of them are described below.

Hairstyle and makeup

Hair styling and wedding make-up brides must not only emphasize all her virtues, but also hold out until the end of the holiday. Only a highly professional hairdresser-stylist and make-up artist knows how to style hair, what cosmetics to use, how to apply them to ensure a flawless and fresh look throughout the entire event. The desire to save on the services of these specialists is fraught with the fact that already by the beginning of the celebration, the hairstyle will fall apart, and the makeup will be smeared, which will be clearly visible in the photographs. Therefore, you should not skimp on this item of the wedding budget.

Wedding format

A holiday for two will reduce costs several times, since the main part of the wedding budget goes to the banquet. In addition, you will not have to spend money on transport and toast. Another way to save money is to have a wedding in the circle of close relatives and friends.

Wedding dresses

If you don't have the money to buy designer wedding dresses worth hundreds of thousands of rubles, then you can solve the problem of a wedding dress in the following ways:

  1. Choose a model of a wedding dress that is similar to the designer dress you like, but made by a less well-known manufacturer.
  2. Wait for the sale or take a closer look at the collections of past seasons, which are sold with significant discounts and are in no way inferior to new models.
  3. Rent an outfit in a wedding salon. The advantage of this method is not only in the possibility to wear a luxurious wedding dress for little money, but also in the absence of the need to be tormented by the question of where to put it after the end of the holiday. The disadvantage of this method is that you have to handle the outfit very carefully, because in case of damage, the landlord will deduct a fine from the security deposit.
  4. She will give up her wedding dress in favor of a white romantic dress bought in a simple store.
  5. Buy a second-hand wedding dress. When buying such an outfit, you can estimate how it will look during a photo shoot thanks to the preserved wedding photos of the previous owner.

To save money on the newlywed's outfit, you can use the same schemes or buy a high-quality classic suit that the groom will wear even after the wedding. At the same time, you should not try to buy a very cheap suit, since the cost usually directly affects the quality of the fabric.

Recommendations for independent wedding organization

When organizing wedding celebrations on your own, it is useful to use the following tips in order to save money:

  1. When choosing a contractor, it is necessary to give preference to those who have many positive customer reviews, and not to the most famous and well-known ones.
  2. After New Year's holidays, everything usually becomes more expensive. This also applies to the wedding industry. Due to this circumstance, when planning a wedding in January, it is better to sign contracts in advance. And if you hold it outside of the season when prices decrease due to reduced demand, you can save a lot of money.
  3. Some contractors provide introductory discounts, but this should not be the main criterion for their selection. In order to avoid making claims to your acquaintances because of the recommendation of a bad contractor, you must be objective and take the utmost care when choosing.