What are ways to have a beautiful wedding for less in Richmond, VA?
485315
Hold the wedding/reception at a local park. Not sure what Maymont or or others charge in the area. Check with the park & rec departments of each county/city.
913894
depending on the amount of people you have attending the wedding it would be cheaper to go to sams club. They have awesome pin wheel sandwhiches and great dessert trays and veggie trays if you just want finger foods you can also go to\n\nwww.cooks.com\n\nand check out recipes there good luck
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If you want something creative, try http://www.verseit.com (Under Verse it > Weddings > Respond)\n\nThis one is kinda nice:\n\nM _____________________\n\nLooking forward to the toasting,\ndining, dancing and reminiscing!\nNumber attending ___\n\n__ Can't attend, but we send NAME our best.
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there are lots of great ways to do a wedding on a budget - if you want to have everyone there - why not see if you can have it in a family or friends back yard?!  if not try local city parks & fire houses.  \n\nif you have a local culinary school, contact them and ask if they have any students who would be interested in baking a cake - or catering the entire wedding - my friend used to make 2 tier wedding cakes for $60 while she was going thru culinary school!!  around here they would have cost $300 from a bakery!!  And they were beautiful and delicious!! she now owns her own bakery specializing in baking wedding cakes!!\n\nfor center pieces & little gifts try ebay do a searech for "wedding bulk" or "wedding wholesale" you can get all the fancy little things for just pennies!!\n\nfor a dress - first ask relatives - especially older ones - many would be honored if you would wear thier dress - if not check ebay - weddings get canceled every day - and they sell off those non returnable gowns dirt cheap!!\n\nask a friend or relative with a digital camera to do the photography - or call the local community college and ask if they offer photography - talk to the teacher of the class maybe they or a student would do it cheap!!\n\nand most of all - congratulations & enjoy your day!!
484519
Seen them 100 bucks on up to a few thousand.\nIf you want something inexpensive and nice try going to a dept. store like Nordstoms and getting a dress that isnt necessarily a "wedding dress"
655284
See if this site helps!\nhttp://weddingplanning.50webs.com
573481
We spent around $300 a person for a five star meal (really) served by a perfect staff (also really!), amazing setting, open bar, tons of paired wine and champagne, free flowing hors d'ouvers during 'the wait' after the wedding, an amazing cake (by a Williams-Sonoma catalogue chef), gorgeous flowers, a DJ, an Oleg Cassini dress, and a few other little frills.  \n\nI have to say that if you do nothing else, remember that your guests are just that, guests.  Treat them as such.  Either have a limited open bar (pick a few theme drinks like a Mojito and Margarita) or have bottles of wine on the tables.  Spend less on centerpieces and 'favors' and instead put it towards better food and a hosted bar.  \n\nCongratulations on your engagement and good luck in your marriage! : )
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You could try The Carpenter House in Plano, TX.  The website is below.  It’s an old Victorian home.  I'm not sure about the decorating; you’d probably be limited on how you can put things up (attaching to walls and stuff).  I believe you have to use their catering, but they have various packages, and the smallest one is for up to 25 people.  Another option is the Corner Wedding Chapel in North Richland Hills.  They allow outside caterers, would work with just 20 people, and have both indoor and outdoor facilities.  Their website is also below.  You could also check out The Corinthian Bed and Breakfast, which is in Dallas.  It’s an old (1905) house, and could work with your guest list.  Again, I'm pretty sure you’d be kind of limited on decorating, but you’d have to contact them.  Another place is called Maple Manor in Dallas.  They could probably accommodate you, and they have a list of other vendors (photographers, DJ’s, etc) in the area, too (http://www.maplemanorhotel.com/nss-folder/pdfweddingmenu/MapleManorEventInfo_1105.pdf ).  You could also check out other Bed & Breakfast’s in the area to see if they do weddings.  Good luck and congratulations!
191833
go to Michaels.com\nDo a search on wedding bouquets or silk flowers etc.  Then it gives you step by step instructions with supplies.\nHope that helps!
559976
Yeah... have a nice wedding/ gathering outside in a nice park or something like that.  Make it nice and casual but still nice, walk barefoot down the aisle, and ahev a whimsical ceremony.  I am sure that you could ask the person who will be marrying you to do so at this location.
764551
Lots of places rent out space for wedding receptions: churches, fire halls, restaurants.... Look in the phone book. If it advertises they have room for banquets, they have room for weddings...
104652
I'm a big fan of the website www.theknot.com.  You can go under real weddings and choose the catagories summer and outdoor weddings.  Get creative ideas from others and then cater it to your own vision.  \n1. A pot luck picnic is a great idea, especially if it's family only.  To coordinate the menu though, you will want to designate who brings what.\n2. Make your own invitations and use a postcard for the rsvp (it will save on using an additional envelope plus the postage).  Get ideas off of the knot website.\n3. Compile your own cds.  My brother is going to be the master of ceremonies for ours and has now recruited others to join him.  \n4. David's Bridal is always advertising dresses for $99.  You can also check out what they have online and print out your favorites to bring to the appt.\n5. Enlist the help of the amateurs...that have a bit of skill.  Know anyone who takes good pictures...there's your photographer.  Know anyone who can make a cake...there you go!  You can go with a simple 3 tier round cake with white frosting and decorate it with cascading daisies.\n\nHope this helps!
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Weddings start as low as $25 for a drive through, but if you spend a few hundred dollars you will have a lot of choice. Remember to allow $55 for you marriage licence, $50 ministers fee, $50 photographers gratuity, and $20+ for your limo driver (if a limo is included in your package).\n\nThe independent chapels will make your budget stretch further than most hotels. Stand-outs for us when we were researching our wedding were Little Chapel of the Flowers, Graceland Wedding Chapel and Little Church of the West.\n\nThe website below lets you search every wedding package in Vegas by cost and theme/traditional ceremony. I've also included a link to their article on low cost weddings in Vegas.\n\nGood luck!
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The important thing is for you and your beloved to have a day the feels special to the both of you.  Depending on where you live, some states allow a lay person(someone who is not a minister or a justice of the peace) to get a special license for 1 day, and they can marry you.  So that wouldn't be too expensive(maybe the person you ask to do it would even pay for the license themselves).  You could also find a justice of the peace, or go to your local city or town hall and ask if they do wedding ceremonies.  You could keep your ceremony small, and just have immediate family.  That way you don't have to pay for a lot of flowers or decorations.  Then for the ceremony, it depends on how many people you want to invite.  My ceremony was in my church, and then our reception was at a small hotel.  We had less than 50 people, but our total cost was still over $5,000, which included my dress, alterations, flowers, food, hubbies tux, etc.  If either of you belong to a church, you should be able to get married in it for a small fee(if any).  Then you could just do a small ceremony afterwards.  Some people are doing just appetizers, or just desserts.  It's basically just an hour or so, lets everyone mingle, then there could be a toast and people can go on their way.  As far as invitations, you can buy nice paper at an office supply store and print them yourselves.  If you have a small reception with just apps or desserts, include that so people don't expect to be fed.  But it's all perfectly okay!!
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check out this website:\n\nwww.confetti.co.uk they have lots of ideas about keeping the cost down.  I am sorry I can't advise on a venue for a cheap wedding in the UK but this site gave me lots of ideas on how to do a beautiful wedding on a tight budget.\n\nThe greatest expense is the venue hire and catering, is there any way you could have this at home or at a friend's house?  Ask someone who has a back garden that you could perhaps use if the weather is good.  Instead of gifts, ask your guests to bring a food item for a buffet, or ask them to make 5 fairy cakes each and then stack them up as your wedding cake.  Borrow a dress or hire one.  Make your own invites.  Keep the flowers simple, perhaps 3 cala lilly stems, they look very elegant and simple.  Scatter rose petals over the tables instead of having centre pieces, or use balloons, they are cheap and readily available.
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Remember, you get what you pay for.....nothing is truly "free" because that "Free Wedding Planner" will be getting KICKBACKS (usually 10% or more) from the various vendors he/she hires on your behalf.\n\nMy best advice is to hire a good Mobile Disc Jockey to act as the "emcee" for your event:  a good DJ-emcee will be your "Reception Coordinator" who will tie everything together.  Some higher priced DJ entertainers will take their role of "Wedding Coordinator" to the next level, where they actually become your full-service coordinator.\n\nOne such person (combined Disc Jockey and Wedding Planner) is DJ Brian S Graham of Knoxville, Tennessee.  I'm not sure if he covers Memphis, but he'll be able to steer you to someone in that area.
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try gathering spots..church, parks, weddings, bars..