Planning a Wedding on a Small Budget - Creative Personalized Keepsakes

If you’re planning a wedding on a small budget, you might be looking for little ways to save money on your wedding without risking your guests thinking you’re a cheapskate.

7 Popular Tips for Planning a Wedding on a Small Budget.

1. Print your own wedding invitations
Instead of ordering expensive engraved invitations from a ritzy stationery store, print your own using your computer and printer.

Most office supply, stationery or craft stores in your town (and online) have a great selection of paper that can shoot right through your printer.

Beautiful fonts are also available for download online, and many are free or very reasonably priced. Look around online for inspiration and then play with your computer and printer until you achieve the results you’re looking for.


Planning a wedding on a small budget doesn’t mean sacrificing tradition or elegance when it comes to your wedding invitations.

2. Skip the designer bridal shoes
Substitute lacy, delicate, high price tag bridal shoes that you’ll never wear again with white sandals or pumps from the your favorite store’s shoe department.

Shoes that are designated as “wedding shoes” tend to be more expensive, plus no one ever finds a reason to wear them in the future.

When you’re planning a wedding on a small budget, you don’t need $300 or $500 “wedding” shoes. You’re probably going to kick them off at the reception anyway.

3. Go with a DJ instead of a live band
If you’re planning a wedding on a small budget, you can always ditch the live band at your reception and go with a DJ service.

DJs today are pretty high-tech and can get just about any song you want played.
Plus, most DJs act as an emcee during your reception too and will help keep the guests on the dance floor.

4. Scale down from elaborately ornate wedding cakes
Don’t sink your money into a monstrous wedding cake. Order a smaller, fabulous version of a traditional wedding cake and supplement it with sheet cake made to match the color and flavor of the cake and icing.

Keep the sheet cake hidden in the kitchen and have it cut, put on plates, and brought out to the dining room so no one will ever notice. You’ll still have a pretty wedding cake for the cake ceremony and photos.

Another way to save big on your cake is to place an order from Sam’s Club or even your local grocery store’s bakery section without mentioning the fact that it’s for a wedding.
(They tend to jack the price up for a wedding, while a simple cake in the same flavors will be reasonably priced.)

Some of the most elegant cakes are the simplest. And when you’re planning a wedding on a small budget, less is actually more!

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Planning a Wedding on a Small Budget - Creative Personalized Keepsakes