Do you have no idea how you'll afford a wedding? Check out this wedding budget where the couple's entire wedding cost less than $700! Through some thrifty shopping and a casual potluck affair, they spent less for the whole thing than most brides spend on their dress. Granted, it was 1996, so you'll have to adjust some for the cost of inflation. Still, it's a lesson to all of us that the only thing you really need to have a wedding is love. For tips on how to save money on your wedding, read this article.
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Well that sounds like a nice White Trash, crate paper and baloon wedding, but I’d rather be shot!!! Horrible!!!!
I believe its called crepe paper, but I can’t expect one of such high society to bother herself with knowing that
Ohhh, I like this idea.
I am trying to keep my budget under $2.500 and it seems that I will make it. I am not renting my dress or the tuxedo, but we are looking only for these on sale. My Dad is a caterer and he can cater for me for nearly free (I only have to buy the ingredients). We have friends that are photographer and Dj’s and they are willing to do this without being paid. Etc. , etc.
I will let you all know how great the wedding day was.
I think it is a fabulous idea! Weddings aren’t about throwing lavish parties or seeing who can spend the most money. Before weddings became so commercialized most weddings too place in church and receptions were pot luck dinners, like the old time Sunday Church social. Spending more money won’t make your marriage last longer…. probably the opposite.
Uh, Tricia. “Baloon” also has 2 “l’s.”
Sounds like someone’s tryin’ ta be hi-falutin’.
hmm…you should learn to spell balloon.
I think it is a wonderful idea, I have been pulling my hair out ever since I got engaged trying to figure out how to pay for it!
I can’t believe someone would call it white trash, well I guess I can believe it…Who cares how much was spent, at least they are not in debt for 20000 for a wedding day. Do we really need all that crap we pay so much for. I think she’s smart. I would do the same, just because you do it yourself does not mean it trashy. Maybe the last comment came from someone who cannot do anything for herself.
The extreme of eloping shows love is all you need. I would hate to be in big debt on my honeymoon.
Think about all those household things that you would miss out on splurging on when you get back! I look forward to spending $150 or more on just a decent kitchen knife, on doona covers, and even invest in a nice car!
While i may not go so far low in price as these happily married ppl, my motto for my wedding is, “Fun party, me pretty, fiance pleased, and low price.”
Will i think that was a nice idea as far as spending$700 im getting married and my fiance is the only one working and paying the bill also taking care of my kids that are not his. Im so worried things are not going to turn out the way he plans it. Im just going to have a little faith and trust in God and hope we’ve a wonderful wedding. God bless those who have have it and also those whom doesn’t have it, peace and one love.
I’m afraid went I went to the link it led to a page without any article. The page was just full of advertisements. I think the original link had the article, but it must have been taken off some time ago.
I saw the first comment before reading the article and was expecting to read ideas that were “trashy”. Wow, enlisting the help of crafty friends and shopping at sample sales is low class? I guess some are more snobby than others (and have loads of cash to spend). Some elegant looking centerpieces can be made DIY style on the cheap… and I’m not talking crepe paper
Anyway, in the end your guests aren’t going to know how much you spent just that they had fun celebrating your big day.
Your wedding is your wedding and if you want it in your back yard or at a church is up to you. No one should ever critisize you for it. You wedding is what you make of it. It is your special day. No one should degrade anyone for the way they choose to get married!
Trish and Ash….Maybe it sounds like a white trash wedding to you but you two idiots spent your time reading about it and then following up with a comment, which only shows your shallow and empty. When someone gets married it’s about them and it’s a shame that idiots like you are out there judging and sending your empty thoughts out.
With that being said I can only hope the poor man your with has enough balls to throw you out on your ass!!
Grow the F#*k Up!
I think Ash was correcting Tricia not the wedding people in the article.
I think D.I.Y. can make your $ go further and people can pull it off with style. None of the decorations have a price tag attached to them so people won’t know how much it cost. There will always be some who “would rather be shot” but you can’t please everyone. Let them spend their money on wedding decorations, I would rather use it for something more useful.
I am planning my wedding for a year from now and I’m doing plenty of DIY stuff (which is not at all white trashy.) I’m planning a winter wedding, so I went out in the woods and picked up thin, spindly sticks and painted them white, bought red fern-looking flowers from hobby lobby for half off, and bought 14 inch containers from the Goodwill for 1.00 a piece. I’m filling the containers with black water pearls. All together, I’m spending about $5/centerpiece. Simple, elegant, classy. I’ve made my own card box, which looks like I bought it from the store, used white paint and black flower paper. I even added my own wedding logo. My entire wedding will cost around $5000, and it’ll be the happiest day of my life. AND, after all of that, I’ll have enough for a down payment on a house. Screw the national $25,000 dollar wedding budget. How’s that for what trash?