Wedding Etiquette

50 Ways to Slash Your Wedding Budget

Want to create your dream wedding without breaking the bank? We asked 50 brides to share their best cost-cutting secrets—from crafty cocktail parties to a totally genius use for pashminas. Ready, set, save!

50 Ways to Slash Your Wedding Budget - Bail on the Ballroom
Bail on the Ballroom

"Get creative with your wedding venue. We married on a 1920s theater stage, then had a reception upstairs. Everyone raved about how different and fun it was. And it only cost us a few hundred bucks to rent the whole thing." —Samantha S., Harrisburg, Pa.

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