Wedding Ideas on a Budget

Weddings are a time to celebrate the love and devotion of two people. Weddings can be a mementos occasion without resulting in huge debt and regret. To create a wedding on a budget think of sentimental ways to celebrate the event and include your guests in the celebration.

Money Saving Tips:

DIY Wedding Projects – Make your own table centerpieces, guest book, invitations, and party favors. Designing your own invitations can be a big help to cut wedding costs. Create your invitations and invite guest to bring a photo of you and them together to place inside of the guest book. Guests can place the photo along with a caption in the guest book and your guest book can double as your first family album. For more information about DIY Wedding project ideas visit Bowdabrablog.com and Bowdabra.com

Valentine’s Wedding Craft Decor

If you’re crafty – or your mom is crafty, or your sister, or even your friends – you might want to consider making your own decor for your wedding! From centerpieces to napkin holders, from hair bows to place cards, it’s fun to make your own Valentine’s wedding decor…and easy too! Needless to say, you could reduce the size of that wedding budget by making some (or all) of these items, also.

This gorgeous centerpiece, filled with Hot Tamales is sure to make your wedding tables hot!  The glass bowl is elegant, the ribbon smothered in lips and the tea light candle, combined, is the perfect mixture of items to symbolize romance and love. If you’re looking for unique and eye-catching, this centerpiece could be the one for your Valentine’s wedding!

These dainty, but festive napkin holders, encircling Valentine’s Day color-schemed napkins, are adorned with gems and satiny ribbon. You can wrap the napkin holders around plain white napkins to spruce them up or you can use napkins similar to the ones seen in the picture, sprinkled with paints or embellishments to add to the festive appeal.

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About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Valentine’s Wedding Favor Craft Ideas

Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular days to propose (or get married) in the U.S.! It’s a day that symbolizes love, of course, so it makes sense that people would want to get engaged or tie the knot on Valentine’s Day. Here are a few neat little statistics on weddings*:

• 2.3 million couples tie the knot each year
• the average number of guests on a wedding invite list is 178
• the average budget for weddings is nearly $20,000
• Despite the fact that Valentine’s Day falls in February, only 7% of all wedding during the year occur in February (That is still 161,000 wedding, though!)

Due to the fact that 30% of all weddings are now paid for by the bride and groom, rather than traditionally paid for by the bride’s parents*, people are now looking for ways to cut the budget and save some money. If you are looking for last minute, economical wedding favor ideas, you’ve come to the right place! You could even recruit your nieces for help with making them…or host a wedding favor making party weeks before the ceremony. The Crafters 4 Kids website is chock full of craft ideas that are not only easy to create, but also economical, too (they all cost less than $5 each to make). Not to mention, every craft on the website is also absolutely adorable and quite versatile, depending on how creative you are.

Wedding Favors

The Valentine Bath Salts is the perfect little favor! You can set it with the place settings to add that final touch. Your friends will love the care that you put into crafting these little packages as well as the fact that they can go home and relax with their new bath salts while they reminisce about the fun that they had at your wedding reception!

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About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com