Every bride wants to look her best on her wedding day, and this usually means having bridal hair and makeup done. There was no question about getting my hair done – by my usual hairdresser. As for the wedding makeup, I had no idea whether I wanted to DIY or book a makeup artist. I wanted to […]
Make up to 120 wedding confetti cones for £1.99
Making your own wedding confetti cones can be a really simple way to save money on your big day. You can expect to pay around 99p per confetti cone if you buy them individually, but if you have an hour to spare then you can get up to 120 made for just £1.99. To get […]
Ways to save on your wedding catering
Catering costs account for a large portion of the costs associated with a wedding. Our catering is working out to be a ridiculous price (but look at how amazing the food is!). However, there are still some easy ways to save money on your wedding catering, even if you do have exclusive caterers. 1. Cut […]
Save money on your bridesmaid dresses
Dressing your wedding party can add a hefty amount to your wedding budget. Whilst looking for bridesmaid dresses I chose pricey dresses, and I felt guilty for days. We had already agreed that we would be paying for the bridesmaid dresses ourselves, and in the end I couldn’t bring myself to pay over a month’s […]
Wedding Cost Calculator
Getting married is expensive. Extremely expensive. I don’t know what it is about that “w” word but you can easily find costs spiraling, or needing to fork out for something that you haven’t even considered. Everyday Loans have come up with an extremely useful wedding cost calculator. By answering a few questions about the type […]
Our wedding favours (including free printable)
Our wedding favours originally started as something completely different, but upon making them we discovered that they were rubbish. With a bit of tweaking, we arrived at our final product. Items used: Mini flavoured vodka – we picked these up in America for just $0.99 at Walmart. You can also get them from most supermarkets […]
Our thoughts on making your own wedding invitations
Once engaged, we knew that we would be creating our own wedding invitations to both keep costs down and to create a truly unique wedding invitation. Now that we have finally sent all our wedding invitations, we have come to the conclusion that making our own wedding invitations was a really bad idea. We started […]
Our wedding
In just over 4 months, I am getting married. I had initially planned to share our wedding planning and money saving tips on another website, but I just haven’t had the time for the upkeep, and this week that domain expired. So I have decided to start sharing some wedding posts on here and I […]
