Weddings cost a fortune with the average UK wedding now costing 16,500 thousand pounds and with most people spending towards the 20,000 mark. Its no wonder that grooms are looking for ways to save money on their wedding day (not usually brides!).
Can an Average Wedding Couple DIY Their Wedding?
So what are the areas of the wedding day you can save money?
Photography and Video: With the advent of many great little HD cameras and phones capable of taking high quality stills and video, nearly every guest at your wedding is armed and ready to be your own photography and video crew. All you need an a file sharing account for all your guests to upload their photographs and video too. You will then have to edit your own pictures and video, yet will often end up with much more fun and personal pictures and footage this way!
Stationary and Table Planning: Arts and crafts! It’s time to rewatch Art Attack and Blue Peter and to hone your craft skills. With a bit of time and effort, you can decorate your tables at your reception and make menus and order of services at a fraction of the cost of using a professional.
Wedding Hair and Makeup: Do you have a hairdressing Cousin Aunt of long lost friend? It’s time to call in a favour. If not you can often have a free make-up test at your local department store from one of the make-up counters. Its a bit cheeky to book one of these in for your wedding morning! However, you can pick up some great tips and tricks and products to enable your very own bridal make-up DIY.
Wedding Transport: Be creative! Again its time to call on your long lost friends and family, friends boss or anyone with a spacious nice car! Hiring a car for a wedding can cost 500 upwards, whilst a tank full of petrol and ribbons only 50 quid.
Evening DJ: Create your very own playlist of your favourite tunes on iTunes. Then use some free apps for your iPhone, iPad or laptop to mix these tunes up like a professional. Not only will you be able to have your favourite tunes often venues have their own sound system for you to play them through. Then ask your nephew to be the DJ!
There are many other wedding saving ideas from sites and forums from around the web. Don’t put off having your dream wedding, when you can do more work yourself now saving you thousands.
