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Imagine having your wedding on a beach amid the palm trees and surrounded by the ocean blue of the Pacific Ocean. Absolutely nothing could be more romantic than that. And guess what! You can have a dream beach wedding on a budget with a few simple tips and tricks. Here's four.
Tip 1: Think small when it comes to your wedding guest list.
It not only allows you to have a more intimate experience with the folks you cherish and love. It also allows you to spend more cash on issues that is more important to you, be it the wedding cake, wedding dress or even the honeymoon vacation!
Tip 2: Moderate the open bar.
Let's be honest, everyone drinks more than they should when they know the alcohol is free.
So restrict the open bar to pre-reception cocktail hour and serve only wine and beer during the actual wedding reception. But if you do not want your guest to think you are cheap, try limiting the selection by adding a few cost-friendly tropical cocktail. Hey, you are having a wedding at the beach, it does not get more celebratory than a tropical cocktails with an umbrella on top.
Better yet, make sure the cocktail you've decided on matches the primary color of your wedding and declare them your "signature" drinks. This not only ensures you do not end up getting expensive drinks for everyone in the wedding party, you add pizazz and ambiance towards the occasion.
Tip 3: A Different kind of Cake.
Wedding cake is essential but let's face it. It can be very expensive!
Just the cake alone can cost at least a few thousands dollars and if you are having your wedding reception at a hotel, there is most likely a cake-cutting fee for every cake sliced and served to your guest. And that is not including cake transportation fees!
So do not spend so much money on a wedding cake that your wedding guests will either just nibble on or will not eat. With a cupcake wedding cake you still able to create the beautiful appearance of a wedding cake, but minus the expensive price. And if your wedding guests do not want to eat a cupcake, they can very easily pick one up on their way out and savor it at home.
Tip 4: Lighten the load.
The standard wedding invitation includes a printed invitation, a reception card, a response card, a map or direction card and envelope.
Sometimes you see invitations that include a tissue and inner envelope. That is quite a bundle. And do we really need all of them?
Item like the tissue is actually a relic of the past when the ink on invitations would get smeared if it was touched. Now they serve no real purpose but some wedding brides ins on using them, so printers delivers them.
But no matter what you exclude from your wedding invitations, it still cost a lot. And with the transportation and mechanical sorting of invitations and RSVP responses, it not only involves quite a bit of time and energy, it also leaves behind a huge carbon footprint. Yes, we need to think about Mother Earth once in a while!
But since you are already having a non-traditional beach wedding, why do not you go all the way and send your wedding invitations by email and invite people to RSVP online or via email. There are plenty of websites that handles RSVP online and some even cost as low at $ 20 per year which is a drop in the bucket considering the amount of time and money you save via the traditional route.
Better yet, if you or your fiancé are familiar with html coding, you can easily set up your own RSVP website. And after the wedding, you can still use the same website and share with your family and friends all the memorable moments of your dream day forever. Something your future children will get a kick out of. Just remember to add a login page so only your guests have access to the site.
But if you are really that attached to traditions and do not want to send your invitations via email, consider sending wedding invitations that will only require one standard stamp and contains nothing more than a simple printed invitation with instructions on how to do online RSVP.
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Source by Ashley Long
