For a long marriage in Russia you can get up to 50 thousand rubles

In this post you will find 7 ideas that will help you save on your wedding without compromising the beauty of the celebration.

Keep in mind that all savings figures in the text are approximate. The wedding budget has one feature - it can be increased indefinitely by adding new details to the celebration, choosing more expensive specialists or materials for decoration.

Wedding invitations

You can make your own wedding invitations. If you have artistic abilities and skills, then you can easily draw a layout using computer programs like Photoshop. You can even find ready-made layouts on the Internet. Choose paper for invitations and order from the online store. To print postcards, contact a printing house. If you don't know how to use a computer, then make invitations by hand from paper, ribbons, beads and other materials.

Another simple option for invitations: print out a photo of you together (you can from the Love Story photo shoot, for example) and write the invitation text on the back. Then put the photos in beautiful envelopes.

A relatively inexpensive invitation could be a video. However, it all depends on who will shoot it. Perhaps your wedding planner will provide an invitation as a bonus. Or you have a friend who is willing to help for a small fee.

Savings : about 3 thousand rubles.

Wedding for 150 thousand - IS THIS POSSIBLE??

Hello. We also plan to hold a wedding for 150,000-160,000 rubles. At first we didn’t want to celebrate anything at all, since for me this is my second wedding and my husband and I have been living together for 11 years, but friends began to be indignant at how this was... So we had to start, but now I’m already so involved and I love doing all this so much , that I’m glad that I started all this :) So far it’s working. I can share the places of purchase: groom’s suit 7350, shirt 750, leather shoes 1500. suit and shirt were bought at Paninter. Shoes in a discount store. My dress: a wedding dress, fluffy, but short 10200 dress was discounted, but very cool, plus a bolero 4500, since the dress was low-cut. shoes 2750. We chose the restaurant with a budget of 2500, on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, since we live nearby and our registry office is Gagarinsky, although you need to take some of their alcohol there, but this is included in 2500. The restaurant has a separate room for just up to 30 people, to By the way, there are 26 of us planned. There is no hall rental, there is a TV in the hall, you can insert a flash drive and show your photos, which is what we will do :) The most expensive thing is the restaurant. +10% for service. The decor in the hall is stylized as a rustic version, so we are trying to mix rustic and Provence styles. For now, my friend and I are doing the decor ourselves. We bought small round vases from Ikea for 79 rubles, artificial flowers in them to decorate the chairs. We will also buy fabrics to make a runner for the tables, and organza for the chairs (5,000, according to my calculations). Rings: we didn’t save much here: my ring with a diamond costs 13,500, and my husband’s 10,250; we also ordered 960 rubles to engrave the wedding date. I will definitely hire a stylist, since I myself don’t know how to apply makeup correctly and, in general, there are problems that I hope the stylist will help hide, since I’m not a young girl anymore :). I'm planning on 6000-7000 for now, but without rehearsal. For now I'm modeling in el-style. I look at what suits me and what doesn’t, so that I know what to suggest to the stylist. Cake. I studied pastry shops for a long time and who offers what, I know for sure that I don’t want mastic cakes... until I found a link on the bride’s page to a girl who bakes herself for 1300 per kg and the bride has reviews for her. Maybe I’ll order from her to try. So far I have pledged 10,000 for the car, I want one car for us and all the guests who will come to the registry office, Photographer: I agreed with a girl who will take 2500 per hour, I want first a photo shoot without guests, then the registry office, and then stop by Vorobevo and an hour in a restaurant . For now, the estimate is 6 hours of filming, 15,000. There will be no DJ or presenter. All our guests know each other and know us well.

Wedding Dress

There are at least three ways to save on your wedding dress. The first is to sew it. Now in almost every city there are designers and ateliers who specialize in sewing wedding dresses. They often offer more interesting, current and personalized designs than bridal shops. It is quite possible to sew a wedding dress or set for 15-25 thousand rubles.

The second option is to order a dress online. Of course, you can’t go to the first website you come across, choose some dress model there and buy it. This is too much of a risk. However, there are probably wedding salons in your city that sell dresses from famous brands in economy class. As a rule, they also have online stores.

You can go to a salon, try on several dresses, choose the one you like, and then order it from the brand’s online store. It can cost you two to three times cheaper than in a salon. In some online stores, the dress is customized to the bride’s measurements: a representative of the company calls, tells you what measurements you need to take, and within a month you receive a dress that fits your figure.

The third option is to buy a wedding dress from another bride. At the beginning of the year, wedding exhibitions are held in many cities, during which fairs of wedding dresses from brides who are already married are held. There you can buy a dress much cheaper than in a salon, and in good condition.

Savings: 20-30 thousand rubles.

Bride's dress and groom's suit

The choice of your outfits should be determined by the style of the wedding. Our article is about styles and modern trends. Whether it will be your mother's dress or a gift from your designer sister is up to you. The cost of a dress in St. Petersburg is from 15,000 rubles to 300,000 rubles. Suit - from 10,000 rubles to 200,000 rubles. All about styles and styles of dresses

Transport

The current trend of 2015-2016 is to hold all wedding events on one site. It is quite possible to spend the bride's morning, outdoor ceremony, wedding photo shoot, banquet, overnight accommodation of the newlyweds and some guests in some kind of country complex with a small hotel.

If you also want to save on on-site registration, then invite only your closest relatives (parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, a couple of friends) to the registry office, and invite all other guests directly to the banquet. Let them get there themselves.

Another way is to find a banquet area near the registry office.

Savings: about 15 thousand rubles.

Little tricks

Knowing some of the nuances when planning a holiday, you can adjust the amount of costs.

1. The time of year for a wedding plays an important role. Holding an event in winter or spring is about 20% cheaper. Many wedding specialists, such as toastmasters, decorators, and photographers, offer excellent discounts during the off-season. May is considered an unpopular month for celebrations. The best restaurants and cafes are free, and managers are ready to offer newlyweds interesting prices for banquet menus. In wedding salons, the bride will be pleasantly surprised by a discount on hairstyle, manicure, and makeup artist services. Taking into account all the nuances, you can fit into the total amount spent on the holiday - 100 thousand.
2. It is also beneficial to have a wedding on a weekday, for example, on Thursday. The difference in the costs of the banquet and the services of the masters compared to Friday and Saturday will be significant. But there are also some disadvantages: not all guests will be able to attend this event, and the next day they will need to go to work.

If the newlyweds have friends or relatives who can help in planning and implementing their plans, then it is worth taking advantage of this. An excellent solution on the way to a wedding for one hundred thousand rubles:

1. If you have a trusted jeweler, you can order wedding rings from him, providing him with your old gold jewelry.
2. The work of the videographer can be transferred to the shoulders of a responsible friend or relative.
3. If there are few guests at the wedding, you can do without the services of a toastmaster. Come up with competitions yourself and entrust them to a charismatic guest.
4. Maybe one of the relatives will have a comfortable minibus that could accommodate a good half of the guests. And if you find a beautiful car with a presentable appearance, it can be used as a motorcade for newlyweds. The generosity of the guest's soul can be regarded as a gift to the newlyweds.

Wedding decorations

This is a separate big topic and one of the most noticeable items of expense in modern weddings. According to decorators, there is no point in making any kind of wedding decor with a budget of less than 80-100 thousand rubles. And for this money you will get only the simplest elements from budget materials. Ways to save on decor are as follows.

1. Find a venue that requires little to no decoration and that matches the style of your wedding.
2. Some establishments have sets of their own tablecloths, which they provide for free or for a small fee. Perhaps they will suit you. This way you will save on textiles.
3. Avoid having an outdoor wedding ceremony. Or hold it in a beautiful place where little decoration is required.
4. Contact a novice but talented decorator who will do your project without any extra charge.
5. Avoid floristry in the design or reduce its presence to a minimum. Flowers are now expensive due to the crisis. They can be replaced with natural materials - branches, stones, moss, greenery. Or installations made of artificial materials, they are often provided for rent.
6. Design your wedding yourself. This is a risky option, but possible for girls with a creative streak. You can purchase all the decor yourself from an online store, and then on your wedding day ask someone to arrange it.
7. Invite your decorator to work with you according to an interesting scheme: create a wedding concept together with him, but take on part of the work on preparing the decor. You can save a third of your decor budget. How such cooperation occurs is described in detail in this material.

Savings: 10-50 thousand rubles.

Frugal wedding: personal experience

Wedding saving post or how we made a beautiful and economical wedding for 100 thousand rubles.

I will say right away that for those who believe that a wedding is such an important day in life that it is absolutely impossible to save money on a wedding, it is better not to read this post. But rational newlyweds with an average income, who do not fall for the tricks of the wedding industry, which I wrote about here, and who do not want to take out loans, are welcome.

It’s worth starting with the fact that the minimum asking price is 350 rubles. This is exactly how much the state duty for marriage will cost today. Everything else from the cover for the certificate to limousines, fireworks, buffet banquets is at the discretion of the young people.

Thanks to my impressive experience in PR, I have held a single event in my time and already knew what needed to be done immediately after submitting an application - create a table in Excel with all possible expense items. Then go to Google and find out what's what. Understand the average temperature in the hospital and enter it into the table. Having received the final amount, I began to figure out where I could trim the fat so that the wedding would be economical. In fact, this is a normal part of creating an estimate for any event. Which expense items can be safely waived, and which ones - under no circumstances.

For example, I could easily survive without video filming by delegating it to my younger sister. However, professional photos in places that are significant for our couple, a registry office in the city center, a honeymoon immediately after the painting, an exquisite image of the bride from the dress to the last hairpin are my priority. Therefore, the remarks “Why do you need a makeup artist? “My friend works at Oriflame,” she dismissed it right away.

Then, over the course of 7 months (about how long it took us to submit an application to the registry office) and until the last pre-wedding day, I supplemented the table with specific figures for various expense items. In the process I realized a lot of interesting things. For example, it is more economical to get married on a weekday from Monday to Thursday. If only because prices for rental vehicles are lower compared to weekends. Or have a wedding in winter. This option is not for everyone, but in this case, a winter wedding, unlike the popular summer season, will cost 25% less.

Frugal wedding: accessories

• Pads and plates for rings are not needed. At least in St. Petersburg, in Wedding Palace No. 1. It's a small thing, but nice. The money saved can be put aside for a manicure.

• You can buy glasses for newlyweds with patterns in Auchan for 150 rubles and decorate them yourself with braid and lace. I did just that, and also received sincere pleasure from this process. Where the price tag of 2,500 rubles per pair comes from is still a mystery to me.

Economical wedding: image of the bride and rings

A trial wedding hairstyle and makeup is 100% necessary. This is something I don’t advise anyone to skimp on. Even though I am an advanced user of Make-up Atelier makeup artists, and I know a lot about my color type, I still needed two trial hairstyles and two trial makeups to decide for myself and convey to the artist what I needed. In this case, samples can be done on the same day as a love story or a personal photo shoot. I rented a studio for this purpose, where my sister photographed me. We managed to combine business with pleasure and take fresh photos for social media. networks and website.

• It's cheaper to get a manicure on a weekday morning if you look for special offers in salons.

• Free trial hair and makeup can be done at one of the wedding exhibitions, for example, SPB WED EXPO, which takes place several times in the first half of the year. In the group on social media networks, you can make an appointment with your favorite makeup artist in advance, attaching a photo of the wedding invitation. I actively used these opportunities, but none of the images suited me. As a result, I still made the complete set again from my master Katya Nikolaeva. Bridal look (hair + makeup) – 5,000 rubles . Trial image – 3000 rub .

• I refused the bride’s second dress (some people do this), and a double bouquet - I didn’t mind throwing my own at the people, but in the end I didn’t throw it at all. I also didn't have an engagement ring. There are cases where this is justified, but often following such “traditions” means feeding those who promote these ideas to the masses for their own enrichment.

• The rings were made to order from a familiar jeweler - a family friend, after having old chains, earrings and unnecessary jewelry melted down.

• Wedding dress for rent. For those who are not squeamish and do not believe in the superstition “renting a dress is happiness”, renting a wedding dress can save money and consider renting for the first time, paying 50% of the cost for a dress that no one has worn before. You can buy your own veil and keep it as a keepsake. Some people use it to lull children to sleep; they say it makes it easier for them to fall asleep. However, I had my own dress and veil, which I don’t regret one bit. I only rented a crinoline. A wedding dress in a salon with the happy name “Happiness” cost 22,300 rubles .

• Also, my savings on the veil did not materialize. There was an idea to buy tulle at a fabric store and give it to a seamstress for hemming, but I never found the right fabric. I had to buy a ready-made veil for 3,500 rubles.

• I didn't buy special shoes. And on the wedding day I wore the ones that exist – Marsala colors. Fortunately, they suited the bouquet well. And they were broken in, which allowed me to wear them all day long. The groom wore a classic black suit, for which we additionally bought only new trousers.

• Prices for the same bridal bouquet vary up to 40-50% depending on the salon and florist brand. Yes, peonies are still very popular now, on which wedding salons are very eager to make a fortune, and which I eventually refused. We ended up ordering a bouquet with a boutonniere from Duty Free Flowers. The issue price is about 5000 rubles .

Other budget wedding options

• At wedding exhibitions “Kingdom of Weddings”, “Black & White”, “At the Center of Wedding Discounts”, “My Wedding” and so on. You can stock up on discount flyers and when contacting companies, don’t forget about the code word “I’m from the exhibition.”

• You can use promo codes from magazines like Bride Style, although I personally have never used them. And I didn’t buy magazines. I got all the ideas for inspiration from the websites The Wedding, Inspire Wedding, etc.