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While surfing the blogosphere, Kristen Seymour over at AisleDash.com wrote about her experience with finding cakes and I must say she’s right on. Rather than spending $4 or more per slice on wedding cake, she went to her local grocery store and had a 3 tier cake made for cheap. This is a great, creative idea to saving money that almost anyone can use.
| When planning a wedding on a budget, do-it-yourself projects are the best way to keep costs down. DIY Bride just released their new book, “The DIY Bride: 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One Of A Kind Wedding.” featuring great do it yourself ideas and projects to add flavor to your wedding without compromising your budget. |
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So if you’re looking for another way to save money, consider making your own wedding cake. CakeChannel.com has an e-book on how to make your own wedding cake. This book includes more than 100 cake recipes from all over the world, 1500+ photos of celebration cakes with information about the artist.
They charge $40 for the book, but it’s yours to keep so even if you just need a creative or different idea to out do your friend that just got married, it might worth it. Take a look at the “Dream Cakes Made Easy” web page and see what you think.
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Brides Against Breast Cancer is still on their Nationwide Tour of Gowns. If you are looking to save money on a wedding dress, this is one place to try. Most wedding dresses are $89-$799 and even their higher priced gowns ($20,000) are 25%-75% off their list price. The best part is all proceeds go to the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation. They say over half their dresses are new dresses from bridal shops and manufacturers. If the tour is stopping in your city, definitely stop by the event to see what they have.
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If you’re looking to make a sash belt or scarf for your wedding dress, or even your bridesmaid’s dresses, Altered Cloth offers a quick tutorial on how to make one yourself. It seems like a quick and easy to save some money and make your dresses look fabulous.
Not convinced that it’s worth it to try to cut costs for the most important day of your life? Consider this: what if you had a small private affair for your closest friends and relatives and didn’t buy an expensive engagement ring, spending around $13,000 for your wedding instead of the average price tag of $27,000?
What if you invested the $14,000 you saved in the stock market and left it there until you retired (assuming 40 years later), earning an average of 10% a year? What would you end up with? A whopping $634,000!
It’s hard to look so far ahead when you’re just starting out in your life together, but the world is full of people who find themselves quickly approaching retirement age without the financial means to retire. When all is said and done, I’ll bet many of them would have traded a bigger, fancier wedding for the $634,000 nest egg.
For more tips on saving costs, see the full article on About.com
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Some couples today are breaking away from the traditional china, silver and linen gift registries when it comes to asking for wedding gifts. They’re asking for money. A wedding-day cash infusion can make it easier to put a down payment on a home. With home prices appreciating rapidly in much of the country, lots of couples need all the help they can get.
There are formal and informal rules governing gifts of money to help newlyweds buy a house. First, the informal rules: Is it OK to ask one’s wedding guests for money?
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If you’re looking to save some money by booking honeymoon travel yourself, try the new WeddingWire Travel Center in their new Guest Center. WeddingWire just released a new guest center that also includes a new gift registry search. The travel center is great for you or your wedding guests. We recommend linking to the guest center directly from your wedding website to make things easier for your guests as well.
Try it out, it’s free to use.
Take a look at a new airline site called www.farecast.com. Farecast predicts airline fares for any major routes, and then provides suggestions for the best time to buy. The system should save you money, and is a great way to start planning for the honeymoon. Just enter your destination and Farecast can email you price movements on a daily basis!
