There’s a REALLY good place to find awesomely cheap wedding DIY supplies
Reader Gina recently clued us in to a great way to snag cheap wedding DIY supplies: your local restaurant and janitorial supply store! If you have one in your area (pro tip: Google “restaurant and janitorial supply store + your city”), you’ll find great deals on bulk DIY supplies like table coverings, candy buffet supplies, and serving tools.
25 chic-as-hell and inexpensive wedding dresses under $500
While you can totally spend thousands of buckeroos on a fabulous and chic wedding dress, you don’t HAVE to. In fact, you can find a cheap and cheerful inexpensive wedding dress at one of our favorite stores, ASOS. They’re rocking our world with their wedding dresses, bridesmaid gowns, mothers-of-the-couple dress, and tons of outfits for wedding guests (and stuff I just want to buy for mahself!). We’ve rounded up a few of our favorite inexpensive wedding dresses from ASOS to get your dress shopping started — and they’re all $500 and under.
Let’s go shopping for chic and lovely yet totally inexpensive wedding dresses…
Planning tools 101: wedding budget calculator
We launched a comprehensive and totally customizable document of wedding planning spreadsheets if you’re the type to get down with spreadsheets like I am. First we featured a big ol’ wedding timeline, then we featured the guest list planner, and now we’re showing you the wedding budget calculator for all your costs and figures and savings.
10 realistic wedding budget tips to stop budget ballooning
You’ve probably realized it already: weddings are expensive. No matter what your budget is, chances are it’s slowly creeped upwards from your original estimate — maybe by a lot. As a bride in the middle of planning, here are some realistic wedding budget tips that have drastically helped to keep the budget from ballooning out of control.