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economical wedding

This is our celebration of weddings working with lower budgets. We don’t call these “budget weddings,” because realistically EVERY wedding has a budget — some weddings are just working with a smaller budget. We’ve got tons of low-budget wedding inspiration and ideas — come get inspired by how other couples have made the most of their money! You may also want to check out our wedding budgeting advice.

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Nicole & Marty’s Beautiful Punk/Foodie/Redneck Wedding

The offbeat bride: Nicole, Office Manager & Baker Her offbeat partner: Marty (bass player for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists) Location & date of wedding: Bankuet Place in Richmond, VA on August 9th, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: We met working at a record store and then we were in each others bands for […]

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Jessica and Matthew’s laid-back under-$1000 wedding

We decided to get married after having seen each other in person only five times (over a year and a half) and burning through countless verizon cell-to-cell minutes. We had only two months to plan the wedding, and I (the bride) was living in California while the groom and the wedding was in Connecticut. I arrived in Connecticut four days before the wedding and thankfully had family and friends who handled all the preparations while Matthew and I generally freaked out.

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Behold this $500 library wedding

We only had seven guests, and we only spent $500. We spent the tiniest fraction of money you can on a wedding — we did this because we live in Brooklyn (high rent!) and our parents didn’t have money to give us so we knew we just had to be creative.

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Hilarious video about the “wedding tax” on wedding flowers

This cracked me up — except for the part at the end where the bride growls “I WANT WEDDING FLOWERS.” Fuck that stereotypical shit.