Wedding

Weddings are freaking expensive! The average wedding for this year was over $35,000! That’s a huge down payment on a house, a really nice brand new car, or a crazy all around the world vacation.

There is so much you can do with the amount of money people spend on weddings.  And a lot of people don’t even have that option to spend that much. If you’re anything like us, we wanted to stay faaaaar away from that number and stick to something MUCH MUCH cheaper. 

When you’re planning your wedding, you’ll get lots of questions about all the little details. But sometimes all the little details can become the fun details…like choosing your First Dance Song, your Father Daughter Song, and your Bouquet Toss Song!

The bouquet toss is a fun tradition where the bride throws her bouquet over her head and all the single (unmarried) ladies try to catch it. The old theory was, the woman who catches the bouquet would be the next to get married.

We all know now that’s not entirely true, but it’s still a fun tradition where lots of girls get excited about the chance to catch the bouquet and take home some beautiful flowers. It’s definitely an old tradition, and many brides are opting out of it, but there are lots more brides who want to honor the tradition and toss the bridal bouquet. (Well, a toss bouquet, not your actual wedding bouquet).

The wedding reception is the largest part of your wedding day. Yes, getting married at the ceremony is the most important and is the reason why everyone is there, but the reception is the fun part that everyone looks forward to. You’re probably looking for unique things to do at a wedding reception, or fun wedding reception ideas, so we’re here to show some fun wedding reception ideas, activities and unique ways to celebrate your special day. It’s so much fun to plan the moment after your wedding where family and friends gather around to enjoy the celebration of your love. We have some great tips on how to make your wedding reception the best you can, so that you can make this special day complete with a fabulous party.

The Unity Ceremony in a wedding is part of the traditional line up of a wedding. The most common are the Candle Lighting Ceremonies where each of you has your own candle, and you light the middle candle together, and extinguish your own…signifying that two are becoming one.

This is an old tradition, and many brides are opting for new ideas to signify their union with some memorable and unique Unity Ceremony Ideas.

This is an old tradition, and many brides are opting for new ideas to signify their union. The Sand Ceremony became very popular, where you pour each of your colors of sand and mix them into one vase creating a piece of art you can display in your house. 

We love the different ways to do a unity ceremony these days, and have rounded up some of our favorite below. 

You don’t have to stick to tradition in every sense. Many of these are great to show off your own personalities!

I am so in love with the fact that we saved so much money with Sam’s Club Wedding. These premade flower collections and bulk flowers, as well as cupcakes and wedding cake, are a fabulous option when you’re looking to save money on your special day. You can even get a 3 tiered wedding cake for just $70, can you believe it?! Today I’m going to share a little information about Sam’s Club Wedding so that you can easily save money on your special day of going from a happy couple to a happily married couple.

Looking to Save Money on your Wedding? Here are some awesome Amazon Deals to save you tons of money!
Is there anything you can’t find on Amazon? Amazon has everything from ebooks to Oreos. What you may not have considered though is that Amazon also has some of the supplies you need for your wedding. Everything from wedding invitations to candles can be found. Let’s take a closer look at things to order for your wedding on Amazon.

Did you know, you can rent your bridal party suits without ever stepping foot in a store? No fittings, no going to the store to pick your favorite, going back to the store to get fitted, going again to pick it up, and still another time to drop it off? You can do all of this in the comfort of your own home! Here’s our Generation Tux Review…

You may have never thought about using an online tux rental service for your wedding, but the reality is there are some great benefits of using an online tux rental service for your next formal event or wedding. We discovered Generation Tux, an online tux rental company headquartered in Kentucky, that offers reasonable pricing and many options to get the best tux of your choice for your wedding, or even next formal event.

So you’ve heard about Sam’s Club Wedding Flowers and how they can save you so much money on your wedding floral budget with their cheap wedding flower packages? Well, we’re here to give you our Sam’s Club wedding flowers reviews and share with you how we saved hundreds of dollars on our wedding flowers!

We had an outdoor wedding and reception, (see all our wedding details here) so we didn’t need very many decorations, but of course every wedding should have beautiful flowers! When we started seeing prices florists are charging for your wedding flowers, we almost decided to just make them ourselves by going to the local farmers market. 

But, we also knew that putting together flower arrangements, bouquets, boutonnières, etc would be a lot of work on the day or day before the wedding as well. So when we discovered that Sam’s Club Club has pre-made wedding flower bundles, we were sold! 

Having an open bar for your wedding can be a very expensive part of wedding budget. When it comes to all of the other details of your magical day, you can usually sneak in some amazingly frugal ideas and stocking your own bar is just one of the awesome ways to save loads of money. It turns out to be a lot cheaper bringing in your own alcohol, than to hire a fully stocked bar.

We did it! Our Biggest Adventure Ever, and we are now Mr. and Mrs. 

The day was as crazy and as fast as it could have been, but it really did end up being the perfect day. It was definitely not without lots of bumps and things gone wrong (we’ll have another post all about that!), but all in all, no one noticed, our friends and family had a blast, and B and I are now married! Couldn’t ask for anything else.