Cheap Wedding Decoration Ideas

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Don't be discouraged by having to purchase a cheap wedding decoration. Half of the fun of getting married is planning the wedding. From the dress to the limo to the decorations, no detail is spared. Just about every couple would love a grand wedding with all of the trimmings, and with many, money is not object. What if, however, money is an object? How does a couple on a budget plan an elegant wedding, complete with all of the bells and whistles? If you’re looking to cut costs on your wedding without cutting out the glitz and the glamour, you can start by using inexpensive, yet classy, wedding decorations.

Determining Factors

Decorating for a wedding doesn’t have to break the bank. All you need is a little creativity and imagination. In fact, the decorations should be your last priority. After the location is chosen, after you’ve picked out a dress and after you’ve chosen a date, you’re then ready to deal with the décor.

The type of wedding you have determines your budget. For instance, if you want your wedding reception to take place in your parent’s back yard, chances are your wedding is going to a casual affair. If you’ve rented out a big catering hall, you’ll probably want something a little more formal. Either way, you can still decorate inexpensively.

Flowers

You don’t need to go to a florist for beautiful floral decorations. If you can plan ahead far enough ahead of time, you can plant seasonal bulbs or other flowers on your own property. Just before the big event, the flowers can be dug up and transplanted into small flower pots. If this seems like too much work, you can also go to your local nursery or home improvement emporium and purchase pots of tulips or flats of annuals. These plants can all be separated and planted in small individual containers. (Cheap flower pots, baskets or other items that can double as planters can be found at the dollar store, the nursery or the florist – the florist may even have discarded flower pots that are just going to end up in the trash anyway.).

Decorate your pots by spray painting them in gold, silver, or metallic colors matching your wedding theme, or wrap them in foil paper and adorn them with ribbon. Not only can several of the decorated pots be grouped together in the middle of the table for a centerpiece, but the individual flower pots can be used as wedding favors and taken home by the guests! Larger pots of flowers can be placed up and down the aisles, at the altar, on the bridal table and at the parent’s tables.

Candles

Candles can be used much in the same manner as the flower pots and make great cheap wedding decorations. Inexpensive candles of all shapes and sizes can be found at the home decorating store, discount mart and even the dollar store. Decorate them with ribbon, lace or baby’s breath. Grouped together and lit, candles make an elegant and attractive centerpiece. Place the candles on a mirror for an even more glamorous display.

Imaginative Cheap Wedding Decoration

As you can see, you’re only limited by your imagination. Decorating for a wedding doesn’t have to be costly to look beautiful. Don’t let your budget get you down, decorate with candles and flowers! No one will ever have to know how much you spent.

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Comments

While some of these ideas are decent, the area concerning flowers may be a serious pitfall to brides considering this option. It is one thing if you are, indeed, using your parents' back yard, but if you are going all out for a catering hall, flowers planted as such with the rustic feel that this will put off is going to limit how "formal" you'd like your event to be. It has a tendency to look like you tried and missed. This also won't be your cheapest bet. You still have to do all the work and will need to purchase a good amount of flowers to prevent it appearing as though you tried and missed. You may also want to be careful in suggesting you place these pots down the aisle and near or on the altar. With the open dirt, you may find many churches hesitant to allow you to decorate in this way. It's one thing to be thrifty, but your time and effort is worth something, too. Florists can offer less expensive varieties that may match your cost in bedding plants and make it far more worth your while than spending time two or three nights before your wedding day elbow deep in soil.

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