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Wedding planning course

If you are planning to do the bulk of your wedding planning yourself, consider enrolling in a short wedding planning course if there is one available to you. I am not referring to the fully pledged full time accredited wedding planning course, but rather a short evening wedding planning course. TAFE runs some throughout the year through their adult learning classes. It’s especially good if you have had little experience with wedding planning, as it can give you a good overview on what is required to plan your wedding as well as like-minded people to bounce ideas off.

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Get bulk supplies

Consider taking a hand on direct approach to your wedding and order supplies in bulk, which consequently lowers the per item cost saving you money. For example, if you’re needing to order napkins for your wedding and know that the local supermarket stocks the ones that you want, ask them if they can give you a discount if you order in bulk quantities, this will probably mean ordering several cartons.

Contacting catering supplies store or local distributors direct is also a good approach as it cuts out the middle man passing on the savings to you. You can find many of these online doing a simple Google search.

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Avoid renting ‘Wedding’ chairs

If you are needing to hire wedding chairs, look around before just hitting all the usual wedding rental outlets. Have you considered asking your local university or high-school if they can hire out their chairs? They generally have a fair amount of chairs for special occasions such as graduations and are happy to rent them out. These chairs can be perfect for park and other outdoor ceremonies. Also check out your local community centres as they usually keep back-up chairs for their functions.

If you are planning on hiring seat covers for the chairs, don’t be to worried if some of the seats have a few scratches, in reality the seats that are a little more worn out will be cheaper and the aesthetics wont matter because you will be covering them with seat covers.

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Planning a Honeymoon (whilst saving money) Online

When booking honeymoon accommodation, look outside travel packages labelled as ‘Honeymoon.’ These packages are designed to play on your emotions and may have a considerable mark up price attached. These days it is simple enough to tailor and book a holiday package completely online.

Getting Started

The first thing to do when planning your own honeymoon is to finalise the dates. Will it happen immediately after your wedding or a few weeks later?


Many people are eligible to receive discounts and have no idea. For example, if you are a member of a road service club, have private health, or belong to a union, you may be entitled to a range of discounts from accommodation, attractions, shopping and restaurants.

Once you have chosen your destination, you may want to look into buying an entertainment book. If the location is within Australia. Visit the website and browse the available vendors and businesses that offer discounts and weigh up the cost of the book to the savings. You can find some great hotel deals this way.

The Flight
There are many websites that offer you cheap flights. Webjet is a good starting point to find out which flights are available. On your departure date. Also check the date prior and the date after your proposed departure date, as sometimes you can find significant savings by changing your flight by a day. Once you have found your preferred flights, visit the airlines website and see if they are offering a cheaper price as sometimes .

The Accommodation
Booking accommodation is probably the most tedious part of planning a honeymoon. There are many websites that offer last minute prices on accommodation. They usually only offer accommodation 1 or 2 months in advance, so if booking through these sites, you need to be prepared to be patient.

Research! Research! Research!

You will find that if you are holidaying in popular tourist spots, the choice of accommodation will seem overwhelming. One way to narrow the choice down is by finding out about other people’s experiences at hotels, either through word-of –mouth or from third-party review websites.

One good website that is comprehensive and offers reviews from world-wide tourists is Trip Advisor. However, be aware, that every hotel has both positive and negative reviews. Hotels can’t please everyone, so have an open mind when reading reviews and weigh up what’s important to you.


Once you have chosen your hotel, take the time to research all the different ‘last chance’ websites that offer accommodation as you will find that there can be significant differences in price. For example, personal experience has found that Hotel Club’s website has been set-up to offer more bonus nights promotions, such as stay 3 nights and pay for 2. If you are a frequent traveller, you could also take advantage of Hotel Club’s bonus credits. Every time you book a hotel, you will receive credits to redeem the next time you book a hotel. You might also like to check out hotels website directly as they tend to offer specials to entice guests to book though them rather than a third-party site.

After you have booked the hotel and flights, you should do some research on the destination’s attractions and restaurants online as you are likely to find printable coupons that could end up saving you a bundle by the end of your honeymoon . You could also pre-book any attractions that you plan to visit to save time and money.

Planning your own honeymoon does take time and patience, but it can end up saving you money, which could mean putting that money towards having a longer honeymoon!
Links
Webjet http://www.webjet.com.au
Trip advisor http://www.tripadvisor.com
Last Chance Website
Wotif http://www.wotif.com.au
Last Minute http://www.lastminute.com.au
Hotel Club http://www.hotelclub.com.au

Save On Receptions

Have an early reception

Everyone knows that Saturday weddings cost more as this is the day that most couples will likely wed. The reception venue will subsequently cost more as well. Find out if your venue will offer a reduced rate for an afternoon reception. You could have a morning ceremony with an afternoon reception ending at around 5pm The venue could then host another... [Read more of this review]

Share your wedding costs with friends

Doesn’t it always seem that the same year that you are getting married, so are at least one or two of your friends? You can use this to your advantage. Without wanting to throw identical weddings to your friends, you can share the costs of common items such as the wedding wishing well or you could ask vendors for discounts if they book all three... [Read more of this review]

Wedding Flowers

If you felt like being frugal, you could very well find some nice flowers from the supermarket for your wedding. Go and check out what type of flowers they have and see if you can put in an order so that the ones that you want will be available for you when you are ready to pick them up. If you didn’t want to use them as your bridal flowers, they... [Read more of this review]

Compromising Can Save You Money

When planning a wedding, you are more than likely going to be faced with decisions brought upon by financial restrictions. There might be something that you really want to have at your wedding that you simply cannot afford. Before cutting it out from your wedding all together, consider whether there is a way to compromise with yourself to still have... [Read more of this review]

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