Friday, April 29, 2011

Few Things to Consider to Control the Wedding Reception Costs

Basically wedding requires bigger amount of budget. Wedding involves many costs like flowers cost, music expense, decoration cost and photographer cost. Traditional wedding is less expensive than compared to the modern wedding styles. Celebrating a reception is coming since many ages. While you are planning for wedding reception follow few tips to control wedding reception expenses. Planning wedding reception within a limited budget is a difficult job until you may not consider certain things. Here are few things that you need to consider while planning for wedding reception.

Select the Low Cost Venue: Select the traditional type of venues to celebrate reception. Such as church or palace. Church wedding venue is cheap and better for low budget. Do not go for high level locations while selecting reception venue.


Choose Seasonal Flowers: Choose seasonal flowers for decoration. Seasonal flowers are cheaper when compared to unseasonal flowers. The seasonal flowers will reflect your wedding theme.


Schedule Reception in a Right Time: The time of the reception you have chosen has great impact on your wedding budget. If you choose Saturday evening or any special day. Then you have to pay much higher amount for the reception venue. Most of the times on Saturday and other special days the demand for venue is very high when compared to other days. The best time for wedding is on Fridays and Sundays. On these days there is less demand for venues.


Select the Good Experienced Caterer: The well experienced caterer makes delicious food items within less cost. They known which type of food suits for your wedding. But this could be quite expensive, because they charge higher amounts, even though there is less chance of wastage. If you hire a cheap caterer who does not have experience, there will be much wastage of items and you does not get any tasty food. One important thing to be remembered while selecting a good caterer is that, guest will remember the food you serve for years to come, hence it is advised to select the best caterer possible.


Limit the bar: If you would like to provide wine or liqueur, consider the time of your reception and serve the beverages up to minimum time. Instead of liquor you can select the beer which will cost less and gives satisfaction to the guests.


Right selection and planning is imperative for one to control the high wedding reception costs.

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