With the economy in a downturn, brides on a budget are becoming much more common. Brides to be are skipping on the fancy and formal and looking for ways to make their weddings more artsy, personal and inexpensive. With the help of family and friends, today’s DIY savvy brides are constructing everything from their wedding decorations, different pieces of their wedding invitation designs, as well as their wedding celebration desserts.
Perhaps one of the most common areas that brides are DIYing surrounds the many decorations that their ceremony and celebration will need. Everything from flower arrangements to table decorations, 21st century brides know that to make their wedding intimate and personal it does not necessarily require a wedding planner.
My personal favorite arena to DIY in is with wedding invitations designs. While I have heard many woes from other blogs and forums about trying to DIY an entire letterpress wedding invitation design, there are a couple easy ways to DIY and save money with letterpress wedding invitations that are very easy. The first is to make your own invitation liners. This will not only greatly enhance the appeal of your wedding invitation set, but it is super easy to do too. Check out this step-by-step video that walks you through the process.
Also, being a part of the design process and dictating exactly what you want your invitation design to look like is a very liberating feeling. It gives you more control and will help make your invitation set more personalized and something you feel responsible for creating.
If saving money is your main criteria for your wedding, I suggest trying to locate package deals for letterpress wedding invitation designs. Some printers greatly reduce the price of their work if you are just willing to ask around. This can save you hundreds of dollars.
Most brides would never dream of making their own cake, which is completely understandable. But a growing trend among 2010 weddings is steering away from the rigid wedding cake tradition and focusing more on individualized tasty delights. Such decadent and individually frosted delights like wedding cupcakes, fudge brownies, cheesecake on a stick or biscotti cookies are super delicious and can end up saving you a lot of money. In lieu of a formal gift, ask one of your friends or family members to cook up enough treats for your entire guest list.
Wedding Cake Alternatives courtesy of Martha Stewart Weddings
Be creative! Think about all the places where the wedding is going to cost you money and think of ways that you could potentially do that yourself. There is no end to the potential DIY projects for a bride on a budget.
Written by Nick
Invitations by Ajalon
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