Cheap Wedding ideas and tips for a tiny wedding on a tiny budget

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Re: Cheap Wedding ideas and tips for a tiny wedding on a tiny budget

@Lusi

If you are on a low budget, why have favor boxes and cake. Justgo with a decent dinner and one desert. Also, I will never put my friend at misery for baking my wedding cakes and cupcakes.I would prefer omitting these items and make sure my friendand sister are relaxed and enjoying the event.

Oh and please dont startcooking yourself on your wedding day. Getthe food catered… maybe 1 maincourse, 1 salad, and dessert.

To be honest, cake wasn’t really going to be included, but my sister has a cupcake company so she offered to make some cupcakes, and my friend also does profession-ish wedding cakes and she offered ages ago. If they don’t want to do it, that’s really up to them, I’m really not fussed.

Didn’t really think it was a great idea to do self-catering either, it’s messy and won’t work out. Worst scenario is going to the local restaurants and getting food by bulk, they tend to give discount if I buy a lot.

I don’t mind going to a counter like MAC for make-up, but I’m worried about hair/dupatta settings, because I don’t think they will know how to do it.

@mizzm

instead of a restaurant, do it at home. and have your friends and family assigned to one dish each. It will save a ton on costs. Depending on how much space you have at home, you can nicely set up a living room area or family room to make it look like a nice stage without the costs.

My living room area isn’t big so won’t be able to fit a lot of people. Plus this probably won’t be the best option if my parents aren’t happy about the marriage, my dad certainly won’t allow a wedding like this in his home, so would rather not do that.

Stoppit, I’ve looked at MUAs but even the so-called cheap ones are not so cheap. I will PM you my location. I just don;t want to pay less on my make-up and then look crap on the day because I didn’t go with someone good (this happened to my friend, she paid £80 for a make-up artist on her wedding day and she looked very, very chalky and unflattering in the end).

Mehndi-wise, I will do my own makeup, I’m just wondering whether it’s worth buying a mehndi outfit? Don’t mind getting a cheap one if I know where from. I’ll email a few GS designers for quotes and stuff, but otherwise I’ll wear something simple that I already have .