A Cheap Wedding Is Possible – Economical Hard Times Increase The Search For ...

Cheap weddings have become a regular search term as couples look for wedding ideas on a budget. Owner of the Australian search solutions company, Shlimbo, Gabbi Murrell revealed that whilst wedding searches in their business directory are still as popular as ever, the term "cheap wedding" has become more prevalent in recent months.

According to Murrell: “Couples feel pressured to spend a lot of money on weddings, and costs can easily spiral out of control. But there are many areas where couples can save money on their big day.” With years in the event industry, Murrell has provided some helpful wedding ideas for those planning their special day whilst being able to stretch their dollar further.

“We’ve put together some helpful checklists and articles that would help couples find areas to keep costs down, with some innovative ideas; that doesn’t mean because it’s a budget wedding, it’s going to be tacky. Everyone is feeling the pinch at the moment, and it’s not just weddings, but a lot of event organisers and party planners are looking for other options that are effective yet tasteful,” said Murrell.

Murrell’s knowledge of event planning, is helping couples to save thousands of dollars, and she has some great concepts to help:

“Centrepieces – rose petals can be bought in bulk from florists and some market sellers, sprinkling masses of these in the centre with tea light candles is very effective. Market flower sellers are also often the growers and you can talk to them in advance about buying bulk flowers, and enlisting some friends to help you put them together on the day. You can also hire tall vases, or glass bowls and immerse the flowers underwater with fishing sinkers and rubber bands with stones at the bottom and put floating candles on the top. You only need a few colourful flowers or sprays for it to be effective. If your colours are green or red, apples make a great centrepiece and you can cut the tops out and put tea light candles in them. If you want height talk to a plant hire place about hiring topiary or ficus plants you can put on the table. From the leaves you can tie hanging glass candles, ribbons with love sayings on paper, or get some battery operated fairy lights and wind them in the leaves. If you’ve got time on your side check out Christmas decorations as not all ornaments necessarily look like Christmas decorations out of season, and Boxing day sales are a great time to get fairy lights, ornaments, votive holders and sometimes swags of garlands etc. at a hugely reduced price (also subscribe to the dedicated Xmas shops that sell online as they often have big sales with very cheap shipping after the Christmas season). For example, I picked up battery operated fairy lights for $2.95 down from $15.00, and a 3mtr long plain pine garland for $17.00 down from $59.00.

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