With the Royal Wedding only 10 days away everyone's talking extravagance & luxury. While not everyone can afford a royal wedding, there are PLENTY of ways you can save & still have a wedding fit for a princess.
As highlighted in April's issue of her magazine, I gave a tutorial for two different projects:
How to Make your Own Boutonnieres & How to Make your own Wedding Favors
Seriously, with a little effort you have save literally hundreds, even thousands of dollars & still have the wedding of your dreams. The knot.com recently quoted the average wedding to cost $27,800.
Our wedding featured a cocktail hour, a sit down dinner, beer & wine, a three layer cake, a DJ, photographer, rose centerpieces on each table, 8 bridesmaids, 7 groomsmen & around 200 guests. We were WELL under that figure. Part of it is that I know how to stretch a budget.
So I thought I'd share my ideas for any of you brides-to-be, or mothers of the brides-to-be.
Starting with these two ways I saved big: making my own boutonnieres & favors.
I couldn't seem to find any favor that was less than $1 dollar a piece. And most of them look like they should cost about 5 cents. And at 200 guests, I didn't like the idea of spending at least $200 on something that would most likely get thrown away. So armed with a little clay, some ribbon and a few small purchases, I had over 200 wedding favors for less than $30 and saved at least $170.
A photo of the clay heart ornaments featured at each place setting. Our names & date were handwritten on the back (by me) with a fine tip sharpie marker. It was fun to see our ornaments hanging from friend's & family's Christmas trees several months later.
Boutonniere's were another expensive item I saved big on. When getting quotes from local florists, I couldn't stomach the fact that the SIMPLEST boutoniere was going to cost about $20 each, costing upwards of $140 for boutonnieres. I didn't want simple. I wanted something a little different, but I couldn't afford the florists vision of different. So I looked online for other ideas on DIY boutonnieres, headed to my local craft store & spent about $30 and had enough supplies to make more than 7 boutonnieres! Keepsake boutonnieres at that!
That and I saved about $100!
A photo of the boutonnieres I made for our groomsmen.
The TUTORIAL on How to Make your Own Boutonnieres
&
How to Make your Own Wedding Favors
Part 1 of How to Save on your (Royal) Wedding Day saved me approximately $270! Check back each day to see other ways to save!
For the next 10 days I'll feature 10 different ways on How to Save on your Wedding Day, all leading up to the Royal Wedding of Kate Middleton & Prince William on April 29th.
If you click on the above images, you should be able to enlarge my how-to instructions as featured in the magazine. Please let me know if you have any questions, or would like me to include a more detailed step by step right here on the blog.
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