It’s a wonderful feeling to plan and create a unique, beautiful wedding to celebrate your relationship, but it can also be quite a shock to discover just how many elements a wedding typically has. The good news is that you don’t need every single detail to have a wonderful day. By setting your budget well ahead of time, and carefully prioritising which aspects you truly want to include, you’ll save yourselves not only plenty of money but also a lot of stress.
To help you plan your wedding with the utmost efficiency, here we take a look at three things you really don’t need to buy for your wedding.
Excessive stationary
It’s easy to get carried away with buying customised everythings for your wedding. But whilst you may enjoy the thought of having your and your beloved’s names beautifully written on every name card, balloon and napkin – it’s often a very unnecessary cost. Ordering printed name cards is expensive, and whilst it may be helpful for the catering team to know who is sitting where, your guests are unlikely to take their name cards home when the party’s over.
To save yourself money and wastage, write name cards yourself on sustainably sourced paper, and note which meal they are having on the inside or reverse. Then, you can ask your guests to flip over their name cards when the food is being served to ensure they get the right dish.
Large amounts of evening food
If you’re serving your guests a three course wedding breakfast, they’re not going to need another meal in the evening. Although it’s nice to have something available for your evening guests, having a dessert table, wedding cake, burgers, pizza and chips is often too much.
Much of the food is wasted at a typical wedding, so you really don’t need to offer everything. People are more than likely to want to switch to drinking and just enjoy a few nibbles throughout the evening, so this is a good place to cut down on your food expenses.
Multiple sets of decorations
When you’re viewing potential venues, be sure to ask if they have staff available to move your decorations throughout the day. There’s really no need to buy multiple sets of flowers and decorations, as a good venue will happily allow you to move your setup from the ceremony area to the dining room to the disco area. Aside from saving potentially hundreds of pounds, this also again reduces the overall wastage of your wedding.
Similarly, you don’t need to have each table laden with a centrepiece, flowers, sequins and multiple candles for your dining hall to look exquisite. Elegance is often best portrayed with the “less is more” approach, and minimalist weddings offer elegance and beauty in abundance.
Remember that your wedding can encompass as many or as few of the traditional elements as feels right for you, but you certainly don’t need it all.
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