Make Your Wedding Inexpensive

What’s a wedding accident?  I am about to reveal the answer to that question in the two short videos below. All I can say is no matter how much planning you do for your wedding Murphy’s Law will sometimes still get in the way. The things that you are about to see in these two videos just can’t be planned for, no matter how well you prepare for your wedding or wedding reception. Check it out!

This video will show you exactly why the location that you select for your wedding vows should be chosen very carefully.

I hope you had fun watching these! I know I did.  Just try and make sure that you and everyone in your celebration is careful on your wedding day or you could really end up with some pretty funny memories that you had not intended on having.

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I‘ve been talking a lot in recent posts about how much control or lack of control we have over what people will say or do during our wedding planning and celebration. The problem is that when you are out there struggling with a tight budget doing everything in your power to make your wedding inexpensive, you are bound to give up some of the control to others.

There is no way around it. What we can’t afford to pay to have done we have to either do ourselves or else delegate some of the work out to others.  Getting married is stressful enough. Trying to do it all yourself just magnifies that load and makes it 10 times worse!

While dealing with all of the pressure and stress of trying to do it all on a tight budget, many couples will make a big mistake. We are so grateful for any little help we can get that we will sometimes just automatically accept it when offered without fully measuring the qualifications of the person offering the help until it’s too late. Where there are important jobs that need to be done on the day of your wedding, you need to consider who you will make responsible for these jobs. Plan ahead! You’ll need to decide whether they are family, friends, or somebody that you need to pay something to ensure that you get the job done right and on time.

While it might be nice to get members of your family and friends involved in these important jobs; you know them, you know who they are. If you know in your heart that they are unreliable you will be doing yourself a big disservice leaving the responsibility in their hands. You have to be honest with yourself when making this sort of decision. Remember this is probably going to be one of the biggest days of your entire life. It has to be done right the first time through; there is no second chance here.

It might be better to get them involved in something else that doesn’t require as much to do with your actual wedding day as you don’t want any last-minute hiccups destroying your plans and this can happen so easily when the wrong people get involved.

While these decisions might be difficult for you to make, where you don’t allow friends and family to get involved in specific aspects of your wedding, the important thing to remember is that everything needs to be run efficiently as it is such an important day in your life that is going to be remembered forever.

If you already have people doing various tasks and you can plainly see that they aren’t living up to your expectations of them (and you probably already know who they are) or you are finding that you are having to go behind them and do or redo what you thought was already done; now is not the time to be timid, it’s time to take control. When people can’t do the job efficiently they need to be replaced with somebody who can whether they like it or not.

Obviously you want to be diplomatic when friends and family are involved so that is why you need to sit down with your partner and go through the planning process well in advance to determine who will do what and how you can monitor their tasks to ensure that they are getting done properly and how you can keep other people happy without affecting your wedding outcome and your happiness on the big day.

It is your wedding day to plan however you and your partner like, and that is something that you must remember throughout the whole process. Just because you have to make your wedding inexpensive, it shouldn’t mean that you have to settle for cheesy or second rate results.

If people truly think of your best interests then they will be happy to help where they can, but according to your instruction. That is the key and it’s worth repeating again, they must be able to do it according to your instruction.

So when you choose those who are going to be responsible for planning and helping to make your big day a success, be honest with yourself and more importantly with your thoughts about them and you will increase your odds dramatically for having things turn out the way you imagined. You will also greatly decrease your chance of having a conflict that could damage your relationship with that family member or friend.

Sometimes this is the reason why people employ wedding planners who can go about running the wedding as they would do in any business and make decisions that could otherwise cause problems if they are made by you or your partner. We don’t have that option open to us because we have to make our wedding inexpensive.

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Are you on a really tight wedding budget?

Trying to keep that wedding inexpensive and stay within the allotted budget can be a real challenge at times but if there’s one thing that you absolutely have to have on your big day it is the wedding photos. If this day is to properly keep its place in time you will definitely want to have some photos that you can look at 20 years from now and reminisce over.

The quality of your wedding photos is extremely important as they are your only chance to capture these moments for life, so it is well worth taking plenty of time to get the best photographer possible, depending once again on your finances.

Sometimes hiring a professional wedding photographer is totally out of the question. What do you do then?

Don’t worry, all is not lost. If you are working with a very tight budget trying to keep the wedding inexpensive then it might be necessary to rely on family and friends to take the photos of your wedding. If that is the case then make sure that you have several people taking the photos so you have a wide enough selection of photos to choose from. This is critical!

Where there are no professional photographers present you are going to have to rely on quantity to help you find the quality shots that you will be pleased with.

Fortunately these days most people seem to have access to digital cameras so there won’t be any added expense for them to take hundreds of photos, and that will allow you that wider selection to choose from.

Today’s digital cameras have very high resolutions with even the medium priced ones offering almost professional quality prints. One other aspect of digital photography that will play into your favor is that fact that you can use these digital images and enhance and manipulate then with various programs such as Photoshop to get a truly professional looking image.

To be safe, it might even be well worth investing in a good digital camera yourself. This way you can get someone to use it for taking photos at your wedding and then you can then take it away on your honeymoon with you to capture all the images of that too.

They are a relatively small investment for the ongoing enjoyment that they can bring with the unlimited photos that you will be able to take. The only added expense might be for a little more memory but the cost is minimal.

After the wedding when you have recovered from the expense there are even services available these days where professionals can take your digital images and upgrade them for you with digital imaging allowing you to only pay for the specific images that you have chosen as special.

Oh one more thing before I go. If you really want to know how to take great photos, I mean things like how to avoid reflections, how to avoid shadows behind your subject, how to avoid red eye etc. You should really check out this guide by Bobby Jones. He’s the author of the The Wedding Portraiture and Group Photography Guide and you can get the guide here with personal email support at www.photobiz4u.com

I suggest you give it a good read, pick up some of his amazing tips and then share it among the others who will be taking photos at the wedding. Yes, you can get lucky every now and then and find an awesome shot that someone may have taken but there’s no reason to leave it totally up to chance. After all this is your big day so go get yourselves a bit of a crash course and you will have great inexpensive photos and still make your wedding inexpensive!

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I was doing some more thinking about the post I did the other day entitled The Wedding Speech Hazard. You may not realize it but wedding speeches can make or break the reception, so you really need to be very careful about whom you allow to make speeches at your wedding. After all this is your big day, not theirs.

You don’t want to have anything on your special day that causes you any anxiety in any way, and if everything else has been well planned and executed then the wedding speeches are the only area where you don’t have full control apart from who you choose to allow to talk.

You must remember at all times that you and your partner are running the show and that you get the full and final say on what happens at your wedding and that includes who speaks and to a certain extent what they say.

Generally, you should know the personality of the person who will be giving a speech, this way you will know whether you can trust them to refrain from saying anything embarrassing. It has happened many times at weddings where a speech can get a bit out of hand. Sometimes the person giving the speech enjoys the limelight a little too much and talks way too much or says the wrong things.

Jokes can often fall flat at weddings unless the person delivering them is adept at making other people laugh and in most cases it pays to err on the cautious side when adding too many jokes to the wedding speech. Of course you want to keep your wedding a lively and fun event but it can get quite embarrassing when one joke after another falls flat.

Whenever possible discuss the topics that the person giving the speech will be covering beforehand and let them know if there are any matters that you would prefer them not to talk about and ask them to please respect your wishes.

Oh, there’s one final thought before I let you get back to your day. Many people are very uncomfortable at public speaking and even though they might be surrounded by friends and family, it can sometimes be a harrowing event, so you need to discuss this with anyone who you have asked to talk on your wedding day to ensure that they don’t get stage fright at the last moment.

So what’s the moral of the story? Be aware of the only area that you have least control of during your wedding and take precautionary measures to avoid potential disaster. Make sure you know who’s giving that speech!