Planning your fall wedding on a budget is the best way to create a truly unique and unforgettable wedding day experience for you and your guests. By investing your money wisely, cutting costs where you can, and finding special discounts and deals, you can plan the fall wedding of your dreams on a budget.
Budget Fall Wedding Planning Tip #1: Location
Where you choose to hold your fall wedding doesn’t need to be a large expense. Autumn is a beautiful time in most parts of the country and, depending upon where you live, there is nothing more gorgeous and inexpensive than an outdoors fall wedding. The theme, the colors and the décor are all inherent to an outdoor fall wedding location and the cost can be minimal—even free—if you do a little research and choose a spot that is out of the ordinary or personally significant to you and your future spouse.
If you do choose an outdoor fall wedding location, remember to note this on your wedding invitations so that guests may dress for the fall weather.
Budget Fall Wedding Planning Tip #2: Wedding Dress
A beautiful fall wedding gown need not take up the bulk of your wedding day budget. The season itself can mean deep discounts on wedding dresses since many businesses are hoping to boost their non-peak season sales. Seize the opportunity to find or create exactly the dress you want with one of these fall wedding dress budget saving ideas:
- Local tailors can often create a wedding dress for you from scratch at prices that are just a fraction of what they sell for in the store. Typically a slow season after the rush of summer weddings and before the winter holiday season, you can easily find a seamstress with the talent and the time to create a gorgeous fall wedding dress on a budget for you.
- Wedding warehouses may cut you a deal on your wedding dress since you are no longer in the typical “wedding season.” Choose a dress from the previous season or ask about backordered stock and next season’s samples.
- Go straight to the source by shopping for your fall wedding dress online. Auction sites like Ebay.com will provide you with wedding dresses custom-made according to size and color by the same companies in other countries that mass produce wedding dresses for major American companies. Order a few months in advance and pay only a few hundred dollars for your perfect fall wedding dress.
Budget Fall Wedding Planning Tip #3: Hair and Makeup
Makeup artists and beauticians just coming off a full wedding season often offer discounts to fall brides and their bridesmaids for hair and makeup on the big day. Find an independent hair and makeup team and talk to them about their packages. Ask for wedding day hair and makeup discounts and you’ll find that many are willing to work with you, especially if you’re getting married during the week or on a day when they don’t have anything else booked. Further discounts on hair and makeup for your fall wedding may be had if you travel to their salon rather than have them come to you.
Budget Fall Wedding Planning Tip #4: Photography
Just like hair and makeup artists, many wedding photographers offer discounts to fall brides if their weddings occur between November and March. Get married on a weekday almost any time of year and you’ll find the same wedding photography discounts. Ask about package deals or choose the same photographer for your engagement photography as for your wedding photography. Both usually garner a hefty discount for your fall wedding budget.
Budget Fall Wedding Planning Tip #5: Flowers, Centerpieces and Favors
Choosing a fall wedding is excellent for your wedding budget when it comes to flowers, centerpieces and favors since you can easily combine all three into one. Choose gorgeous centerpieces from nature and make them the take-home favor for your guests by creating a “break-apart” centerpiece that splits into a small wedding favor for each guest. Use larger versions of your unique centerpiece to decorate the alter, the gift table, the cake table and wherever else you would like to display flowers. Some ideas include:
- A pyramid of glass jars in the center of the table, each stuffed with candy or flowers, one for each place setting.
- A small fish bowl (with live fish!) or a plant in front of each plate with a larger version in the center of the table.
- Clusters of fall tea sachets made with your own special blend can hang from a wire tree at the center of each table.
Any of these can easily be adapted to your theme, attached to wedding ribbons with yours and your spouse’s names or serve double duty as place cards. All of them are great ideas for a fall wedding on a budget!
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