Most brides often prefer to slim down their wedding budget for the simple reason that nearly everything is so darn expensive. The simple reason is that most of the vendors often upcharge their usual rates during a wedding. Sadly most couples do not realize this and the result is that they would have overshot their budget by a large margin. The median cost for most weddings would be around AU$60,000 when it should have in fact, been much less. This is why you need to check out the following tips since they can help trim down your wedding budget, and even help pare it down to the bare essentials.

  • Trim the flash: Who doesn’t want their wedding day to be remembered in all their glory? And one of the expensive items that you would need to trim or weed out altogether happens to be the service cost of a wedding photographer. Granted, you cannot park a high-end camera in the hands of your teen cousin and ask him to record the day, in detail. Chances are that most of the images would be out of focus. You would need to hire the services of a professional photographer, one who can catch the light just right and know when to take the snap. But there’s no reason to pay inflated prices for a service that you can get at a low cost. Just search online for affordable wedding photography in Sydney, and that should net you more than a few professional photographers. 
  • Keep the guest list small: When it comes to trimming the wedding costs down, the first place you would need to start with is the guest list. Remember that the cost of an average wedding lunch or dinner plate for a single guest can set you back by almost AU $120. Now, imagine, having to invite over 150 guests for the big bash, you can work out the math. So try to pare down the guest list to just family and close friends and see if you can cut the guest list to a maximum of 80 people. That should save you at least another AU $2500.
  • The wedding dress: One of the common misconceptions especially among prospective birds, is that the wedding dress needs to be an expensive one. That’s rubbish, the wedding dress needs to look good and make you stand out in the crowd. That’s about it; Just head online, and search for “discount wedding dress” and you would be more than pleasantly surprised at what shows up. The sheer number of wedding dresses available at low cost is just staggering. Head online and maybe check out a few of the local dresses as well; you may finally settle on one for the big day and it shouldn’t cost you much to purchase it.
  • Don’t break the bank on dresses: A recent fad among prospective brides is to purchase two wedding dresses, one for the main ceremony and the other for the reception later on in the evening. No wonder most couples tend to overspend their wedding budget and here’s one of the main reasons as to why. It is just a pointless expense that both you and your prospective husband can do without. Avoid purchasing two dresses and instead just settle on one for the wedding.

With these tips, you should be able to pare down the wedding expenses to just a few bare necessities. Remember that you are planning to marry someone and start a new life with him. Wouldn’t it make more sense to utilize the money saved to purchase something useful for your new life, together, as a couple?