Tips and Tricks to save on your wedding.

This page is being dedicated to help you save money, time and hassle.  We are inviting all readers to send your Tips and Tricks  and help others save.  It is  defiantly true that once you mention the word 'wedding' the price seems to go up.  We have broken this page into 3 sections.

1. Useful Hints - useful idea to make your day easier ie. Always remember to pack a needle and cotton.......

2. How to save money -  By thinking outside the square ie. how to keep your reception under $60 per head.

3. Sale Sale Sale -  If you have items from your wedding you would like to sell let us help you reach potential buyers.

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Useful Hints:

1. Winter weddings: with light falling faster and days getting shorter our best advise is to bring your reception forward to 5 to 5:30.  This is effectively the same as couple having their reception at 6 to 6.30pm during daylight savings.  You will find that you will not run out of light, your guest will love it because they will be home before midnight and you will enjoy your accommodation for longer.  Of course you would move the ceremony forward as well.
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1. Always remember to pack an emergency kit on the wedding day.  Items it should include are
-cotton in the same color as the dresses.
-safety pins
-nappy wipes - great for removing stains, much better than soda water.
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2. During the warmer months it can be a good idea for especially the groom to have another shirt to change into for the reception.  There is nothing better than the feeling of a new clean shirt after the long hot day.
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3. Pack extra hair spray, hair clips and makeup for the day.
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How to same money:

1. The best tip I could give is to think out side the square especially for the receptions.  Working on the assumption that the average cost per head for a reception centre is $100, where could you and your partner eat right now for $200.  The answer is almost any high class restaurant you want.  Just think, not only reception centres serve food to lots of people, so do restaurants, pubs and clubs.  The amassing thing is they charge almost half as much and the quality is more often than not better.  PLUS you can now buy your own drink's saving even more.

Two stories we have been told by clients on how to save money,

A: Growling Frog Golf Course was booked for $4000, for 60 people, 4 courses and including drinks.1910 Donnybrook Road Yan Yean VIC 3755 http://www.growlingfroggolfcourse.com.au.   $66/head - amazing.

B: Condotti Restaurant 239 Lower Heidelberg Rd East Ivanhoe 03 94998882 $4000 for up to 100 people.  We have actually eaten there and the food was outstanding.

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2. MENS SUITS: Buy the guys suit's from menswear shops like "Man to Man", it will still cost as much as hiring but you will get to keep the suits and no one has worn them before.  You will not have to return after the wedding or worry about damaging them.
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3. CUPCAKES: I was recently at a function were we had a Cupcake Cake and wow did it look great and taste fantastic.  All the guests were talking about it, and how easy was it to hand out.  So with anything we find that can help our clients here is the information, the cake was provided by Kerri at "Love at Fist Bite Cupcakes" 1300131266

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5. We are currently putting together a list of suppliers who produce high quality products, but offer them at far less price.

Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale Sale.....

Let us help you sell your unwanted wedding items and in turn help others.

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Give us a full description of the product including manufacture, original price, size and anything else you think might help.  Also send photos of the item and if we photographed your wedding, your names and wedding date.  You will also need to choose one of the following:

- fixed price and if so what price would you like.

- Auction with a starting price.

- Auction starting at $0.