Wedding Budget Tip #2: Cut the Guest List

This article is part of the regular BSB series - let's share the wedding budget tips every Tuesday so that you can save on wedding costs! For future reference, you can also display past postings on this wedding budget reminder page.

The biggest way you can reduce the cost at the wedding is to trim the guest list. The smaller your list of visitors, the fewer the total you need to spend.

You are just simple and simple mathematics. If you have 50 guests, it is 50 chairs, 50 rents, 50 meals, 50 programs, 50 profits ... you understand? Okay, if you have 100 guests, you can multiply this cost in double!

Everyone you add to your list of visitors will exponentially increase your overall expenditure. So I hope that you can think about your list for a long time.

What are the other benefits of a small guest list? You can provide a better experience to your guests. You can also share the moment with each participant. The larger the wedding ceremony, the less time you spend talking with all guests, so you can enjoy your wedding ceremony.

Instead of dancing with your grandparents and dancing at your bridemaid Taylor Swift, you will have 200 people you invited (with your father's colleagues and your cousin you have seen only 5 times in your life) Including) Taylor Swift's Shake it Off, or a cake erased lovingly on the new husband's face

First of all, you should list "essentials" for everyone. Who must definitely be there and it is devastating that it does not have them in your wedding ceremony?

Of course, many people may feel obliged to invite. You can even list the people you think you should invite. All the big family your college friends your high school students / children's friends. Your colleague will invite your own wedding ceremony. Your parents 'friends Your parents' colleagues Your entire church

If you are for your budget (you obviously already set it up because you followed our advice, then you end up with a very long list, You can start the cut list with:):

Please ask friends and family to leave the child at home. Doing so will definitely reduce the total number of weddings.

Please restrict plus to those who are in serious relationship (more than 6 months). If they are living, engaged or married, just choosing the plus sign may be more serious.

If you and your fiancé pay for their entire wedding ceremony, you can truly do all the shoots. This means that you can invite friends and colleagues of your parents freely. * Especially * If you have never seen them!

If you have never met a friend over a year, please remove it from the list. No matter how close you are to the past, even if you did not touch it last year it will be unlikely to change after an important day.

Small things are new things. We accept a small wedding. If you can not cut the guest list, do not worry - we have more hints on how to help you cut costs in other areas. What?

We are glad to have so many great friends and very big family, and the list of our guests is huge. After the meeting with the catering service provider, we noticed that the budget could not invite as many people as possible, and we also made the wedding we imagined. To be honest, we never thought of a magnificent wedding; we were uncomfortable cutting the our guest list. Finding a solution is really hard. Our answer is to plan a very private wedding in Scotland. We robbed our families and our closest friends. Then we came back and held cheap and big party at home, drinking soup, beer, wine. Everyone is exploding and you can invite those you want. This is both advantages. In an intimate ritual abroad we can truly associate with other relatives and our closest relatives. And we can communicate and celebrate with friends and family at home.

For many couples, the whole process starts with a list of wedding guests. Those who invited you to participate on your precious day will affect your budget, venue, even the time of your wedding. It seems easy to create a recent beloved list, but this task will soon become unwieldy - especially with parent intervention, you may be aware that your friends and family may be over budget I understand. Unlike many other wedding planning jobs, this is the task that you and your fiancé are unable to pass to the planner.