A modern wedding is your authentic way of celebrating love and choosing to live together - it's not a tradition to follow because "everyone does it and it's accepted". Thanks to such an approach, the couple can freely decide what will happen at their wedding and what will not, what to allocate the budget to, but at whose expense it can be safely saved by directing the funds to the dream.
It is no longer relevant for a modern couple to feed and water 100 distant relatives with whom there is no close communication. Instead, they spend on genuine desire, quality and sincerity.
Practical budget recommendations for modern weddings
Set priorities.
What is the most important thing for you in a wedding? Ceremony place, where every nuance is thought of, gorgeous celebration place , exquisite food, expensive champagne, quality music or excellent photos that will remain a beautiful legacy for your offspring? Determine which aspect is really important to you - and dedicate the largest part of your budget to it, compromising on the details that are less important to you. Such an approach will facilitate both the allocation of the budget in the subsequent steps of wedding planning, and will make choices easier and smoother, separating the essential from the less important.
One of the biggest tricks in reducing wedding expenses is to get married on an off-season weekday. Spring and summer are the most popular seasons for weddings, when the places for the celebration are available and, of course, the services are more expensive.
Unforeseen expenses arise in the organization of every event - nuances that cannot be predicted. Wedding professionals know what to count on and how much budget to plan for it, therefore, you will be able to discuss these aspects ahead of time and count on them.
If you are organizing the wedding yourself, budget for unexpected expenses in the amount of about ten percent.
It may seem that we will organize the wedding ourselves and save money. Maybe you will really manage to save money, which is also on the question mark, because wedding organizers tend to have more favorable service prices with service providers and, for example, recognizable musicians, but - before choosing to organize the wedding yourself, you should ask yourself whether you are ready to devote a lot of time and nerve cells to it. The organizer does a lot of behind-the-scenes work that is very time-consuming.
If you still decide to organize the wedding yourself, it will be useful to consult a wedding organizer at the beginning of the wedding planning process, as well as the help of a coordinator on the wedding day, so that you are free from the many questions of guests and practical tasks.
Unconventional place of celebration.
Family apple orchard, family homestead - ceremony and even celebration in a non-traditional wedding ceremony location can be like saving the budget in the context of venue costs incurred by renting the premises. However, you should carefully consider the convenience and additional expenses that may arise when adapting the venue for the celebration.
A private atmosphere in a small group of guests is still a very relevant and popular wedding option. Thus, the high costs of spending and catering for guests are eliminated, instead devoting these expenses to quality choices or to the honeymoon.
A choice for brave brides and sustainably minded couples who will save several hundreds, even a few thousand euros in the wedding budget. Clothing is one of the biggest generators of waste in the world, and vintage is relevant and will continue to play an increasingly powerful role in the fashion business. Expensive accessories and jewelry will give an elegant touch to the vintage wedding dress, but the necklace left by the grandmother will give special sincerity and meaning.
Again, a sustainable choice that will save money - giving up printed paper invitations, saving nature. You'll save even more if you design your invitations yourself, which is easy to do with Canva .
Photo: PINTEREST | Wedding photographer: ARTIS SUPE
Involvement of friends.
If you have cool, active friends who will be happy to get involved in creating your wedding - don't give up this opportunity! Maybe someone is a DJ, someone else knows how to prepare mini gifts, someone else is passionate about organizing, and someone else bakes excellent cakes. The main thing is that nothing is forced, and everything is done with passion and joy.
Destination wedding plus honeymoon.
If you want to get married outside of Latvia, it is great to combine the wedding with a honeymoon, saving expenses for plane tickets. It is becoming popular in the world to invite the closest family and friends to a wedding in a villa, where everyone then spends a vacation together. This is an option to save on wedding guest purses as well.
Wedding photographer: ELÍNA UPMANE PHOTOGRAPHY Of course, anyone can get married the way our parents or grandparents did - basically the only expenses were a properly laid wedding table, from which everyone left satisfied, and a beautiful wedding dress. Today, the options are abundant – from photo booths and food trucks instead of a three-course dinner to wedding filming with a drone. All this adds up to significant wedding costs, while leaving complete freedom as to what you want from it all for your wedding. When thinking about wedding expenses, it's important to remember that we don't get married once a year. It is a unique event that we want to experience only once in a lifetime. And if we look at it from this point of view, should we focus on saving?
To experience the wedding of your dreams, you need a suitable venue that meets your expectations and never disappoints, decorations that create an atmosphere and add solemnity, entertaining elements - at least the basic base - music, a treat, the most beautiful wedding dress and the best quality groom's suit and someone who will capture all this inner and outer beauty, so that when you look at the wedding photos, you can remember the finer details of this magical day. Hosting a wedding is both challenging and at the same time one of the most beautiful experiences in your life as a couple!
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