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

@Jolie

How good are you with doing your own make up? Can you get away with doing your own make up on your wedding day?

Not good enough for bridal make-up. I’m not great with eyeshadow or bronzers etc, I usually go for a simple look. I don’t mind asking friends/family but I have done before and wasn’t too impressed with how I looked.

@Paheli00

Do you have friends OR aunties who know how to pin the dupatta or can at least figure it out? That way you can get your hair done from a reasonable hair salon…but have the girls/aunties you know pin the dupatta afterwards.

BTW, I didn’t have the dupatta on my head for my wedding. So depending on how tight your budget is…you may want to do some soul searching and decide just how badly you want it on your head and whether or not its really worth paying that extra $$$.

On a side note, are you and your fiance able to delay the wedding for a few more months so you can save up a little more?

I can try and pin my own dupatta, didn’t think of that! I’ll watch a few YT tutorials and see if I can try it. I want the dupatta pinned up tbh, cos I normally wear hijab so would feel strange without it.

Delaying the wedding, I guess it’s an option. The thing is, I don’t really want to spend thousands on a wedding which I can spend on my home/furniture etc.

@ShazasScrapbook

Practice your makeup and do it yourself. You can do the dupatta setting too - it’s not that hard. You need U shaped hair pins and a nice firm bun helps. I did my own makeup/dupatta setting for my mehendi and my dupatta stayed up perfectly well

If your dad is not allowing you to have an event at home, where will you have the mehendi? For the mehendi, you can even ask your friends to help chip in - make it a themed potluck or something. Or if your relatives are willing to participate, you can ask for their help?

I’ve found a small hall which is quite cheap, and there’s another one which someone has told me about which is very cheap too. Otherwise my sister will let me do it in her living room as the last resort. I would rather have a hall because I don’t want her house to get trashed. Otherwise I can push for the cheap marquee at my garden, and just ignore my dad’s dirty looks, I spose.

Did you use hair extensions or a fake bun for your hair? Did you have to add volume or puff it up at all?