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Planning a wedding on a small budget is not that hard. In fact, you can have a nice inexpensive wedding for as little as $ 500.

Here are a few things to help you in planning a wedding on a small budget:

1. Shop around for your wedding dress at the local consignment stores or thrift stores. Purchasing a second-hand dress will only help you save a small fortune. Or, you can simply rent your wedding dress, which is also cheap.

2. Ask your friends and family for help, and you might find out that someone has a wedding dress available or that someone is willing to accommodate your party at their home.

3. Make wedding invitations yourself.

4. Get the flowers for your wedding locally, because shipped flowers will cost you more.

5. Keep a small list of guests.

6. Have your local supermarket make your flower arrangements and cake, and no-one will even guess where they came from.

7. Organize your wedding in your backyard or in your home. You can decorate everything yourself.

8. Prepare the food yourself, and try to have light foods rather than some special courses, for instance: vegetables, finger sandwiches, a fruit plate, a cake and some snacks. You and your friends can prepare the foods a day before your wedding. Alternately, you can purchase the cake and the food at your local grocery store.

9. If you wish, you can have your celebration in the morning, because in this case your guests will not be expecting a lot of alcohol or food.

10. Ask a few of your friends to take pictures and video. Alternately, you may purchase some disposable cameras and leave them on the tables for the guests to take the pictures.

11. You can have the music set up on someone's laptop or mp3 player, and rent one speaker, so you can save on the cost of the DJ services for your wedding.

12. One of the most expensive parts of a wedding is alcohol, such as expensive wines and liquor. If you want to keep the price low you can just replace those with sparkling wine or fruit punch and add a little alcohol to it. Alternately, you may choose to have an alcohol-free wedding, which will help you save even more money and not have to worry that someone will get too drunk.

Planning a wedding on a small budget is not hard, and can be done without much sacrificing, and make for a very special wedding day.

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Source by Adam Gaines