Planning your Wedding Decorations Budget

Planning and budgeting for wedding decorations will vary according to what type of ceremony and reception you plan to have, where you'll be having them and whether you're using specific themes.

For example if you are planning an indoor dinner, your planning and budget will include centerpieces and possibly caterers and servers. The most common decorations used in weddings and reception are flowers and streamers.

While the streamers and various other decorations are generally inexpensive, the flowers can be quite pricey. You can reduce the cost of flowers by using plastic or papier maché instead of real ones.

For those who would prefer to use real flowers, it can be much cheaper to go with wild flowers and/or hand picked flowers. It is also a good idea to use them sparingly.

For example rather than going all out and decorating everything with flowers, just use a simple arrangement for the center of the table and place them in small vases or hand made crafts.

Of course you can also opt to keep the flowers strictly in the ceremony. Papier maché flowers are getting more and more popular as are hand made roses crafted from tissue paper. When they are placed on green pipe cleaners or wires that are covered in green tissue paper they are quite attractive. It is a nice way to save money plus you get to spend time with friends and family while you're creating them.

Instead of having a separate budget item for decorations, you could rent a church, chapel or hall that provides the decorations for you.

If that is not possible, the ceremonial decorations can be limited to people involved in the ceremony, such as their clothes. You can also pin balloons to the areas where the guests will be seated or create some flowers out of tissue paper.

Here are some other good budget wedding decoration tips and ideas:
· A really unique idea is to use glass containers and put baby fish in them. It is very unique and attractive, and it is also cheap because the glass containers can be purchased at Wal-Mart and even a dollar store. The fish can be as cheap as you want them to be
· Good old candle holders and candles are always a romantic addition to any wedding decor
· If your reception is at night it is nice to add fireflies to a glass container with holes for air; during the day you can even use butterflies, provided the container is large enough
· Fake flower arrangements in a bamboo pot are a very nice addition and keepsake for guests
· Using white Christmas lights streamed through greenery is a beautiful decoration and is one that you likely already have available
· Chocolate and candy flower bouquets are sweet accents to the décor and they can be souvenirs for the guests later.
· Balloons, balloons, and more balloons are always fun

These ideas are just a start, of course. If you choose a wedding theme first, that will help give you additional low cost ideas for decorations to complement the theme.

For example, if you choos tropical romance as your wedding theme, you can use glass containers with sand as centerpieces to your reception. You could even float petals from tropical flowers on water in those containers.

Detailed resources, information and original ideas for your wedding, prom or any formal event can be found at www.WeddingsAndFormals.com

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