Wedding Help

[Lisa]

Thankyou cards - I have had a number of friends do the same thing we did and they said it was a great idea. Get your bestman/bridesmaid/attendant to stand at the door of the reception place with a digital camera. Then, you and DF (DH then) welcome each guest or group of guests as the enter. You all turn to the camera person, they take a photo, and then the next guest comes in. That way, you can develop those photos, write your thankyous on the back, and send them as a reminder of the day. I still walk into friends houses and there's the photo of all of us on the wedding day stuck to their fridge.

What an absolutely brilliant idea!!!! I love this!!!!

[MrsBump]

LizJessie,

We too are planning our wedding on a budget, We have lived together for almost 5 years. Our date is nov 22 08. What i have done is this...

*DF's aunt is helping pay for the celebrant (she offered so we didnt refuse)
*I am going to a shop where they have "discontinued wedding gowns" and getting it from there (saw a beautiful one for $250 disc from $1400+) I loved it but seen as tho i am so preg i didnt want to purchase it coz i didnt want it to not fit
*We have 12 in the bridal party (inc us) so the groomsmen and the bridesmaids are paying for their own dresses/suits, BM are paying for their hair and makeup which i have got for $100
*Just haveing something simple for the bonbonierre, shot glasses with a wooden peg (scrapbook peg) with a glued on butterfly and 2 heart choccies in the glass... cost me about $90 for the lot, inc choc
*We have a wishing chest we bought it from a nice shop where i got the BM bouquets from, all up for the chest and 6 bouquets, and 3 lots of rose sprays it was $95.


Hopefully that helps. Plus we are doing our own invites (well one of my BMs are she handy with comp) and all the thankyou's etc. Oh and our cake is $300 max but thats for a 3 teir cake, bottom white choc, middle caramel choc and top mud choc... MMMMMMM

Goodluck with the planning....