Inexpensive Wedding Ideas for Any Budget

1.) For party favors or gifts for your guests go to your local dollar store. It may sound cheesy, but trust me, there are some very useful things in most dollar stores that can add a nice touch to your wedding or reception. When my husband and I were planning our wedding, we wanted all of our guests (about 75 people) to go home with some sort of keepsake as a reminder of our special day, but we didn't want to spend a fortune. So we went to our local dollar store and found these beautiful satin heart-shaped boxes that came in packs of four for fifty cents a piece. We bought 20 cases of them and then went to Walmart for candy mints to put inside of them. We then bought about 2 yards of satin cloth from Michaels and a spool of ribbon. We wrapped the candies in the satin, tied it off with the ribbon, and put the wrapped candies inside the boxes. They made for some very cute little party favors for our guests. Plus, the boxes looked really classy on the dressed up tables at the reception. Total cost was about $45 for boxes, 5 bags of candy, ribbon and satin cloth.

2.) Table decorations can also be another very expensive thing if you happen to get them from a professional wedding shop or catalogue. But you can do your own and save yourself loads of money. One thing that I absolutely had to have for the 10 tables we had at our reception was candles. Again, I went to my local dollar store and found these really nice purple candles that came inside of glass jars. Luckily they had 20 of the same ones, so we grabbed them all. I used the ribbon that was left over from my party favors project to tie around the neck of the jar and I again went to Michaels and bought about 20 single fake white roses to attach to the ribbon. I had my sister put her craft skills to use, and she came up with a very creative, and very beautiful finished product that looked great on all of the tables. They were a really big hit with the guests because by the end of the day there weren't any left. Total cost for this was about $30 for the candles and flowers.