How to have
A Affordable Wedding
How I Saved Thousands On My Wedding!!!! (Low Budget Wedding)
Sharing buttons:
my wedding dress was also in the budget
those under $5,000 and we even hit the
$5,000 mark
[Music]
I'm betting you know a richer so I just
threw on a little blazer moment blazer
turtleneck moment I'm gonna be talking
some little wedding
and right here when I did my wedding in
my video anyways I am doing the video on
like how to have a wedding under five
thousand dollars so like a cheap wedding
ideas because shockingly Ana weddings
range firm like 25k to 30k think is that
average wedding so they go well beyond
that even if I had that money I could
not spend that kind of money on one day
I know it's your wedding day and
everyone sees it differently but me I
see as one amazing day either way
because you're getting married and
you're becoming one with your husband
sorry I have a lava cata toast I'm like
waiting on grant to get home from school
and it's like 7:10 and I'm like hungry
so I need something to hold me over
anyways
so number one let's talk about venues
venues is the big price tag that's like
the number one biggest price tag for
sure I think you can easily spend
everyone's the area is different but our
area five thousand easy on the venue for
loans for basically what it costed for
my entire wedding what it costs for my
entire wedding you can easily easily
easily blow on the venue alone so five
thousand eight thousand ten thousand
easy on a venue like that's not even
hard to do something to keep in mind is
like when looking at churches they were
all like over a thousand dollars like
fifteen hundred I said that weird
fifteen hundred for a church which so be
it but since we're only gonna be there
for a 30-minute ceremony I didn't want
to spend them
money and there's a church in our area
that's absolutely beautiful likes
architecture and there's gorgeous I
would have loved to get married there
just because how gorgeous it is and just
really would have set like a romantic
beautiful tone but they were wanting
1504 and I was like I can't do that for
30 minutes 15 that's a lot of money for
30 minutes of your life photographers
and videographers those are a huge huge
price tag where we live I'm just going
to give you the prices of where we're at
in Ohio so it is a smaller talents if
you were in a bigger area obviously all
these price tags are going to be way
more extravagant but where we live like
photographers range for like $3,000 I
would say is like an average
photographer rate and or like a more
nicer photographer Rihanna I think 3000
is pretty typical anyways I know
photographers charge 3000 dollars and so
something that I recommend doing is
looking out in finding photographers
that are starting out working up their
portfolio etc and get them then while
they're smaller that is exactly what I
did I knew that I didn't want to work
with someone who had already been in the
business because I just knew it wasn't
in our price range I knew that off the
bat and I did want pretty pictures and
also people that have been doing
photography especially wedding
photography for so long I think their
style is not what I was looking for it's
just very like structured robotic and
like they've done so many wedding so it
really like blends together and I really
like the like Instagram feel like the
warmth and like just like the real shots
of like laughter and just like real
shots I don't know
and my wedding photographer Eden I love
her to freakin death she's such a
sweetheart an amazing person and I just
love also supporting my lights are going
back right now if it goes out I'm gonna
punch somebody let me try to turn this
up hopefully that doesn't make it worse
but my wedding photographer she's
amazing I love supporting just like
women that are started
like a business project and stuff and
she's just like super talented anyways
she's worth way more than we paid for
her I literally found her when she was
starting out and now she charges like
three times that or something which
she's worth she's worth that much as she
should be charging that much so that's
something I recommend is like be
someone's guinea pig and and start out
with them and I knew just from the
engagement shoot she did with us that
she had an eye for it she had a vision I
saw her equipment and I knew she knew
how to head it so and I just connected
with her so you definitely want to
connect with someone but find someone
starting out with videography I just got
extremely lucky and I want to give away
honestly I wasn't gonna budget and Nev
and loving YouTube and stuff I could not
budget for a videographer because it
gets very very pricey so the same thing
I want to give away in there also
they're like one of the best couple ever
if photos are your number one if venue
is your number one of DJs your number
one if food is your number one whatever
your number one is maybe slurred some
more but if photos aren't what you're
thinking about if you're caring about
that much then maybe that's the way to
go wedding invites actually a video of
how I did my wedding invites they can be
so expensive so wedding invites
seriously out of a crazy amount so I did
was I made my own I will link the video
up here up here I'm sorry to be that
person that does that I'm not sure which
corner it's in but I will link that
video for you guys and definitely watch
the table decor it is something that
really can add up after buying like okay
so say you have 200 people and then
there's what like five people per table
or six people per table or whatever it
is putting centerpieces on all those
tables really really add up in just
decorations in general for a wedding can
super add up go around and find like
greenery like literally go to like
goodwill go to stores like that and find
just greenery pieces you can do so much
with them even if it's like a ugly like
picture of your like even if it's like
an ugly centerpiece or something and
there's some good greenery take it it's
frickin cheap and pick off the greener
pieces even the dollar tree they have
dollar obviously a dollar like leaves
and stuff and I got a bunch of those
from the Dollar Tree Walmart even you
can do a lot with like cheaper things
and just renovating things and like
dahling them up you know and then like
roses go to the Dollar Tree they do
white roses that's what I did once again
if you're wanting to go a cheaper route
I know not everyone's game for that but
if you were to even go to Hobby Lobby
which once again still is some people's
cup of tea but if you were to go to
Hobby Lobby those roses would even add
up just for centerpieces along my main
centerpiece I made even a video on this
I think I ended up not posting and I've
deleted the footage you know I just went
to all I'll have the Dollar Tree and
found dollar glass vases then I went
onto Amazon I bought like label maker
and like labels like big stickers
basically and that you can type on and I
typed out like I went on like a little
editor or you even could go in a word
like any of software that you could type
on and I put like table 18 and then I
put every guy son's name is there and I
popped it on the vase like a logo or
like I don't know yeah like a logo type
thing and it looked really like clean
and just simple and like sleek I really
liked the way it looked and then go
ahead fill it up with some water put it
to you like handle in there and boom
it's a good start to the to like the
centerpiece I'm gonna go check and see
if my dog's doing cuz I'm not sure he's
doing okay
you got just a toy you know mama was
coming to look at you but yeah just be
creative and think of just cheaper ideas
go to the Dollar Tree look and see what
they have good luck kiss oh you're
beautiful
you're hot you're sexy I love you my
back stay gorgeous okay take two or
ninety-nine take 37 action so food is
another thing
really can rack up the prices so if it's
$10 a plate in 200 people that's $2,000
a lot of frickin Amul out but something
I've been liking lately is like unique
foods to like little sandwiches and like
make it just like little snacky foods or
like pizza bars or like I don't know if
you have like a breakfast theme or
something there's a lot of different
cute ways you can go about it I've never
been to a wedding where I'm like oh that
was a great meal like I think wedding
food is just kind of yeah and wedding
food so unless maybe you go to like
weddings with like Floyd steaks and
stuff like that but I've never been to
one like that all right you got another
issue with my camera so take literally
100 I'm kidding but also how to look at
this footage like on my computer because
what this happen with my camera and I
hate this outfit now that I'm like
actually seeing it like when I looked in
the mirror and in my mind it looks good
but when I'm seeing it like on the
computer I really hate it but I just do
not even have I just can't report this
okay so let's go with it if you don't
like my outfit trust me I don't either
we're good let's keep moving okay stop
food would be Nika unique like pizza
bars I love that idea I really do and
then hair and makeup some brides do pay
for their bridesmaids hair makeup and
some don't
I've been I've done makeup for like
several several several weddings and
I've seen it both ways I don't know if
it's just me and my friends bear it baby
I love for you to eat but right now this
is really the best time I feel
Harrod makeup can so easily be done
without like a professional doing it I
don't know maybe you don't have anyone
in your feelin but I feel like someone
in your family or like some friend has
to be decent I'm doing makeup but for me
like multiple of my bridesmaids were so
that worked down they just did each
other's and like hair it also all comes
down to personal style and preference
but I like a relaxed look like I like a
sleek bun or like just soft curls or
just like really simple things so I
think that's something really easy
honestly even if you're gonna have like
a really extravagant expensive wedding
it's just even an easy way to like cut
on some wedding cost cake and dessert
cakes can be outrageously expensive
especially if you're buying for everyone
we did a cake just for the cake cutting
ceremony which I did is super even care
about but grants mom wanted to get us a
cake can gift it to us so we're like
okay well we would appreciate that and
it was beautiful and I loved the cake we
had it was just a really pretty piece I
it was just like a wedding party cake
just how cut we did donuts for the rest
of our guests what I was gonna do was I
was just gonna go to Walmart and get
like a round like plain white cake just
stick some flowers in the top because I
like the simple look if you go to
someone who is like a wedding cake
specialist the title alone bumps up the
price but I literally was so okay with
going to Walmart and getting a plain
white cake cuz that's what I like and
like decorating it myself
next is bar so drinks is something so
expensive if you're gonna have alcohol
at your wedding
it isn't very very very expensive so ask
your venue about this for sure our venue
we have if we're gonna have alcohol at
all we had to use their bar and their
bartenders so that was paying for the
bar paying for the bartenders I was
leaving the tip and that all you had to
do and then you could either have an
open bar which is gonna be like 2,000
like over two thousand dollars close to
three thousand dollars I see
and that's just like outrageous to me
like I just I can't do that like just
for alkaline I just can't do that but if
your venue does allow you to bring
drinks from from like outside and bring
them in that's like a great way to do it
it still is gonna cost adding it up but
something that's nice to do is like a
complimentary drink for the guests which
we didn't end up doing that my parents
paid for that portion and that's
something that was amazing like so I was
so grateful for that like for my guests
even my parents buy wine and beer with a
keg of beer when I was gone he was gone
and actually I thought I was gonna be
gone like in the very beginning like
first sure it actually lasted the whole
night I literally still to this day I
don't know how but it lasted the whole
night and just put it on the invite that
you know ahead of time bars are just
something that's either not needed at
all or like they're just very very very
expensive open bars are very expensive
lastly is a DJ we actually did like
splurge on it's something that was
important to myself is just having like
a good DJ if you didn't want to splurge
on that you could get on like make a
playlist even or something and then have
speakers and like go that route like
I've heard of that and that could work
but something is like what if something
went wrong or the speakers didn't sound
that good DJs is like they have their
lights and stuff and it really like
gives it a feel and like a party feel
and that's something I was really
important to me is I really wanted the
reception to be fun like that's
something I kept saying is I just want
people to be up and dancing I want it to
be fun I don't want people to be
standing around staring at each other
like not doing anything at all
wedding dresses is another thing my
wedding dress was also in the budget
those under $5,000 at whim and hit the
$5,000 mark grant - grandma was able to
actually make my wedding dress so I just
went to jo-ann fabrics and I found
fabric that I liked and I bought the
fabric in like buttons it was like just
a thousand dollars like just under a
thousand dollars have heard of like
consignment shops that I feel like you
could go
and like find a wedding dress and then
like go to someone pay for someone to
like tweak it a bit you know some in my
town they're decent they're like good
very good priced so I think you could go
to refight like a retirement shop or
something
find a good dress or like not a good
dress but like a wedding dress for under
five hundred dollars or even something
online that they sell and then just have
it tweaked to you I feel like that would
be a good way to go about it and
bridesmaids dresses I know that's not
something that you would pay for as a
bride but to help your girls out I got
our bridesmaids dresses on the loose and
there were only 50 bucks over 49.99 I
liked the idea of not so like
bridesmaids II like I went to a bridal
shop and I got a bike me it's Jess I
think I don't like that um so like more
chill casual dresses I love for
bridesmaids in for weddings and you can
find those for so cheap so don't think
like you have to go to all the wedding
stools and try stops wanted to make
everything look what as cheap as humanly
possible and they could and then our
parents wanted to help us and they
wanted to gift us some money to help
make our wedding day what it was so I'm
so thankful for that and what they did
give us because once again five thousand
dollars I'm saying as a cheaper wedding
but that is still five thousand dollars
like that's still a lot of money for
once again one day not even 24 hours so
um just enjoy your time it does go by
fast and no matter what if you're
marrying the right person for the right
reasons
then like it's gonna be like the best
day ever and at the end of the day
you're married you're husband and wife
I'm gonna go get in the shower because
my back is killing me
thank you so much for watching please
subscribe to my channel it means in the
world to me appreciate it so much and I
do have a blog coming out very soon I
don't like this outfit either so we all
know
[Music]
