While planning a budget for a wedding ceremony, you have to put in the list the major things like location, silverware, lighting, flowers and a lot more. As there will be a lot of small things will be added as it goes on over your planned budget. It is always better to spend the money calculative in each and every thing so that you won’t get into serious debts. Similarly in the case of flowers if you plan well then you can decorate the wedding in an amazing way and that too within your budget. The flowers are the things in the list, whose expense will always go way beyond what is actually planned by you. But if you have any idea or prior experience about where to get them cheap then you are really lucky enough both in having a gorgeous wedding with stunning flower decoration and also the expense will be finished within the budget.

The main reason for the flower budget being always skyrocketing is that they will die or fade soon. In case if you got the flowers so early then they will really fade and give a dull appearance on the exact day of the wedding. This will make you to get new flowers at the last minute which will increase the expense tremendously. So it is always better to get cheap wedding flowers which will survive as fresh as it was just picked from the plant for a long time even after the wedding. Thus it would be great to buy flowers which will be blooming for a long time.

One more idea to reduce the expense on flowers is to set the flowers yourself for the wedding which will give you the advantage of setting the flowers in your style and also you can feel a personal touch to the venue. It would be costlier to hand it over to the professionals in order to set the flowers which can be avoided if your family and friends are willing to give hand to it.

Lastly, if you wish to cut the cost of the flowers you are using for the wedding then it would be good to avoid the month of February to have a nice budget wedding. Because of the Valentine’s Day, the flower price will shoot up in such a way that it will be only in dreams you can use flower decoration in the wedding. It is always better to fix the date of wedding in some other months to have cheap wedding that fits within your budget. If you plan to fix your wedding at the time of Christmas or Easter then your cost for the flower decoration is totally negligible. Because, the church and some other venues, are previous decorated for the celebration, thereby making you to have a wedding celebration that perfectly fits in your budget.

There is nothing to feel shy about having a potluck reception idea. This is one of the traditional ways to celebrate the reception party after the wedding. Also this is the best low budget wedding option than other ideas that are in the list.

Nowadays the wedding ceremony are becoming so expensive and also with the slow down in the economy has commercialized so much that the caterers are providing only very limited items in case of very limited budgets. But on the other hand people love and appreciate the idea of a potluck reception.

For any kind of wedding theme, this potluck reception will suit perfectly well. In case if you feel little embarrassed about calling it that way then I would prefer you call it as “Old Time Traditional Wedding Celebration”. As this potluck will fit into any theme and there won’t be anything that can be questioned about it.

The potluck will fit exactly as you call it an old time celebration if you choose the decoration and other related things for the wedding with an “Old Time Theme”. You can opt for a 50’s or 20’s theme which has the real old time themes and are the most popular ones.

And also all the people who are invited has to be informed about the potluck theme through a small attached message in the invitation in order to give them the option. The message could be as follows

~Our Wedding celebration will be an “Old Time Traditional Celebration” which includes a Potluck dinner. ________ please check here in case if you wish to bring a dish instead of a wedding gift. About the dish suggestion give us a call.

You will be surprised to see the turn around rate of people willing and wishing to bring their own special recipe for the potluck dinner. Thus leave them to call in order to get or offer suggestion so that you have the control over the menu for the dinner.

Once at the reception party, you and the other guests will really be surprised at the variety and the quality of the dishes presented by the guests who participated interestingly in the potluck. The wedding reception will be a hit with rich menu items as the friends and the relatives who involved themselves in the potluck will be bringing only the special dishes as the occasion itself is something more special.