How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget: Cut Your Wedding Costs in Half

This book is loaded with money-saving tricks and organizing tips, as well as lots of encouragement, all designed to help you determine the budget for your wedding - and then stick to it. You'll find dozens of creative, innovative ideas that will not only save you money, but make planning your wedding a fun, friend-and-family-involving process you'll savor in memory forever. In this new edition you'll find actual case histories of four weddings - how the brides stayed within their budgets without sacrificing the quality and elegance of the day, the latest wedding trends - how to be fashionable at a low price, money-saving tips for the groom, updated, average costs for everything from flowers to wedding gowns, reception food to photographers, for nine regions nationwide, creative new cost-cutting ideas contributed by recent brides, complete instructions on how to set up a wedding notebook to keep track of every aspect of planning your wedding, detailed questions to help you focus on your idea of the "perfect wedding" before you start planning, and a "what to do when" calendar/timetable for quick reference.