Thursday, May 17, 2012

Wedding Websites For Your Wedding On a Budget

The average American wedding today costs about $29,000 - a number that's far higher than it ever used to be. Still, there are plenty of us who cannot afford this kind of thing. We are looking for every way possible to cut back on the unnecessary. And for that, these wedding websites will truly be of help.

Wedding venues cost a lot of money. The best way to cut down on those expenses would be to do away with renting a proper permanent structure for the festivities. Lots of people either rent time at a public park or something, or they hire a place like a local public school auditorium that was never meant for such a thing. Well, whatever you do like this, you're going to need plenty of help brightening and prettifying the place up cheaply. These wedding websites will help you do exactly that.

Whatever non-purpose built venue you're choosing for your wedding or related festivities if you're looking for ideas on decorating the place up on a budget, your first stop should be ClassicPartyRentals. If you're looking to class the place up with tables, linens and place settings - or even tents if your venue of choice is a public park or beach - then this is your place.

A lot of people decide that they want to go unconventional and quirky with their budget wedding. And it's good idea. You can be completely ready with the stuff they sell you at LunaBazaar. If you want all kinds of origami goodies to brighten the place up, this is the place for you. For paper parasols, lanterns and everything else, wedding websites like these are the places to head to.

Know what would really help when you try to trick a venue out with pretty personalized decorations? Ribbons and seashells, of course. Try CreamCityRibbon and JamaliGarden.

And of course, the invitations shouldn't cost money. Go with ImpressRubberstamps, and stamp out all your invitations in a second.

What wedding would be complete without flowers? And yet, something as simple as flowers for your wedding can completely trip you up. They are that expensive. That's what you need the CrimsonPoppy for. Not only do they make just about any flower you want out of paper that's completely believable, you get paper rose petals to strew down the aisle like confetti, too.

Weddings on a budget are big business today. Businesses constantly come up with such new and attractive ideas, you couldn't do any better if you spent a lot of money.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Getting the Right Card Blanks - Your First Step to Great Wedding stationery

Whether you plan to go the DIY route with your wedding invitations or  to completely work with a professional wedding card printer, it really comes down to you and your personal sense of what's pretty, the kind of a wedding stationery that you choose.

The most basic part of your wedding stationery of course is the card stock that you will use to print your wedding invitations on. When you finally decide to go with a particular kind of card stock, you can use it for every kind of  wedding stationery - the save the date card, the RSVP card, the invitation itself, the wedding reception invitation, the thank you note - you get the picture.

The kind of wedding stationery you choose - the card stock in this case - can play an important part in how your invitations turn out. The card stock you choose decides how the invitation will feel in your hand when a wedding guest holds it. It decides how the printing will actually look on the card, how substantial it will feel, what the texture will make the guest feel like, and so on. Some really finicky brides will go so far as to  pick a card for how it smells. Which isn't a bad idea, if you would think about it.

Once you have your card stock, you can prepare your wedding stationery in any one of several ways. You can either go to work with a professional printer or have a professional design printed on them, or you could go the DIY route. You could handcraft every invitation painting lettering on by hand, you could go with a rubber stamp idea - stamping all invitations out quickly. What you decide to put the design will determine how your invitations end up looking at the end.

Go to the store to buy wedding stationery, and you'll find that they have card blanks in just about any paper quality, shape, color, size and weight that you could imagine. If you have a large enough order and are willing to pay for it, they'll even custom-make your card stock with kind of size, paper, color or anything else that you ask for.

How heavy the card is that you choose will have a lot to say for how your invitations turn out, and for how much all that will end up costing you. Of course, heavy card is bound to be more expensive. But apart from that, you'll have to be prepared to pay for and better more to have these sent over the mail, too.

As always, picking what's available ready-made off-the-shelf and will make it cheaper for you. Get a card of reasonable ready-made thickness, pick a style and shape that's often used, and you'll save money.