Five Tricks to Elevate your Wedding AND Save Money

Planning your dream wedding doesn’t have to mean breaking the bank. With a little creativity and thoughtful decision-making, you can elevate your wedding’s style and experience while staying within your budget. From clever décor hacks to strategic vendor choices, these five tips will help you create a memorable celebration that feels luxurious without overspending. Let’s dive into how you can have it all—here are five tricks to elevate your wedding and save money for your Alabama wedding.

Use Plates Instead of Chargers

This is such a great trick to elevate your tablescape! When you are offering your guests a seated dinner, I believe a charger really elevates the table so much, but chargers can be so expensive! In our area, you are looking at $8-$12 per person. Yikes! For roughly $1 per person, you can achieve an expensive look that will dazzle your guests and leave your tablescape looking incredible!

One Wow Factors

When you are working with a tighter budget, focus on a few (or even just one) wow factors that can be the focal point for your wedding day! Whether that is an incredible cake display, fireplace focal point or incredible head table, by choosing just one, it allows you to keep everything else beautiful and simple.

Reuse Design Elements

Reuse design elements for more than one thing! For example, take your ground florals from your ceremony and reuse them as centerpieces for your reception.

Create Dimension with Different Shapes and Sized Tables

Create beautiful dimension in the reception space by utilizing different shapes and sized tables.

Limit Your Guest List

I completely understand wanting to invite every single person you know and love to your wedding. However, if you are working with a smaller budget, cutting the guest list is a great place to start. Lowering the number of guests can help make a smaller budget go so much farther. If you have champagne taste on a beer budget, look at cutting the guest list way down.

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