Your top 10 wedding tips

Reserving halls for wedding receptions is cheaper on Mondays through Fridays and Sundays ...  Some public holidays like Labor Day are perfect for getting good deals on halls and wedding venues.

For a cheaper option, buy the wedding flowers yourself from a wholesaler ... this should save you a lot of money to spend on caters for the wedding, with these flowers you can produce simple displays such as six tulips in a glass vase. You could also use the bridesmaids bouquets as centerpieces to really get the best value out of them.

Wedding rings don't have to be that expensive ... In order to get the best overall deals, you should comparison shop online. If you do it soon enough, you can have the bands ready way before the ceremony.

Have a budget for your wedding ... Your budget is important because it is almost impossible to know what you can afford for each aspect of the wedding if you don't give yourself a limit to the overall spending costs. For most people, creating the budget is the hardest job to do because you want to have the nicest and most memorable wedding that you can afford.

Skip out on the extra services that many catering companies offer such as place settings or servers ... You surely don't need waiters and waitresses, because your wedding guests can serve themselves or have some family members who will do it for you.

If the cost of the dresses is really going to be a matter of stress for you, just reduce the bridesmaids to just having a maid/matron of honor  ... and a best man only for the groom.

Now that is a real saver! Use pre-recorded live music tapings at your wedding ... so that you will get the live music sound but without paying the extra money.

You can also save money on wedding invitations if you personally deliver as many of them as possible rather than sending them through the mail ... You can also hand certain wedding invitations to friends and family members to pass along for you to those who they see more often than you do.

To capture parts of your wedding is to make a video recording instead of paying for professional pictures ... You can simply use your own camcorder or borrow a friends and ask someone to record the ceremony and the reception festivities for you. With it is easier than ever to make professional looking videos.

Calculate how many guests will require seating at your wedding before committing to a particular chapel ... The majority of chapels seat between a hundred and a hundred and fifty guests, but there is one to suit every size of wedding. In Las Vegas, for example, there are chapels just large enough for the Bride, Groom, officiate and witness.

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