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.

Use what you already have

Just because you are planning a wedding, it doesn’t mean that you need to go out and buy everything. Take a good and hard look around your house and see what you can use. Do you have a nice lace tablecloth that can be used for the guest book table? A great bouquet of silk flowers that can be used to dress up the venue? Expand your search wider to family and friends and see what you can borrow from them. You may end up saving a fair bit of money with just some careful pre-planning.

Spruce up those guestbooks

Wedding guestbooks are a great memento and heirloom for future generations, why not make yours more personalised. It may take a bit of time, but sit down with your partner and write down a quote or a funny memory on how you met or even a message of thanks to your guests on the top of each page.

Dress up the guest table book

Don’t just slap your guestbook down on a table and let that be it. Be creative in the presentation of it. It’s needn’t be anything expensive, even a small sidevtable or outside table dressed up with a lace tablecloth can be a nice touch. Placing some pictures of the wedding couple, from the present and when they were kids on the table can be a really good effect. You may like to add some rose petals or decorative wedding ornaments on the table too.

A Picture Frame Can Double as a Wedding Favour and Place Card

Place card holders can go beyond just telling your guests where to sit. Make your place card holders more memorable by turning them into wedding favours. One great way of doing this, is to slip the sheet of cardboard with your guest’s name into a picture frame that doubles as a wedding favour. Your guests will love this and you will save money and time.

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 what you want at a reduced price.

At a wedding I attended years back, the bride had chosen to decorate every third chair at the reception with seat covers. These seat covers were beautiful, with a floral bouquet entwined with this gorgeous gold ribbon, it was simply stunning. Had every chair been decorated, it might have been an overwhelming feature of the reception décor, so I was under the impression, decorating every third chair was an aesthetic choice.

It wasn’t until months later that I had learnt that the reason only every third chair was decorated (the other chairs were covered with a simple white cover) was due to financial restrictions, not aesthetics. This bride had her heart set on this particular wedding seat cover and wasn’t willing to compromise. Her then-fiancé suggested that she compromise and just get the elaborate covers for every third chair.

At the end of the day when planning a wedding you need to have a balancing act of achieving the look that you want whilst compromising with any financial restrictions that may be placed upon you. There is always more than one way to achieve a certain look, you just have to know where to look.

A new take on the wedding menu

Gosh I just love this idea!  Posted a while back on the Martha Stewart website, it’s a different take on the regular standard shaped menus.  Once you have finalised your reception’s menu, have your menu’s professionally printed into a circular shape to fit the indent of the dinner plates. You must choose the plates and table decor before printing the menus and take a sample of one of the plates to the printers so that they can get precise measurements.   Ideally, it is more visually appealing if the menu’s colour design matching the tables colour palette. Gosh it’s just so beautiful!

50 Great Wedding Centerpieces

Here at Daily Wedding Blog, we love table decor, after all it can turn a bland table setting into a warm and inviting space. So we were excited when we stumbled upon these photographs of 50 Great Wedding Centrepieces on the Martha Stewart website. Check it out for some inspiration!

Attention to Detail

Attention to detail is one way that you can make your wedding all that more special for your guests. In this new series of blog posts, we will highlight some specific ways that you can add small details to your wedding, that may not even cost you a cent, yet the results will be that your guests will have a more memorable experience.

Personalise your wedding guest book
Before your actual wedding day, sit down with your partner and personalise the pages of your wedding guest book. You may choose to write famous love quotes or you could even write memories about how the two of your first met, or memorable dating moments such as when your partner first met your parents.

Another great way to spruce up your guestbook is to include photographs of the wedding couple on a few pages. It could be photographs of your recent trip to New Zealand, of happy holiday Christmas snaps. You could even throw in a few photographs from primary school for nostalgia.

Not all your guests will be aware of how you met. Sharing a few back story details will make the wedding more special for your guests and will make your guestbook a great heirloom for your kids and it can essentially become a story of how mum and dad met. Your kids will also love reading messages from the wedding guests.

Wedding chair slipcovers

Slip covers are attractive looking fabric covers that you drape over ordinary looking chairs to spruce them up and give them an elegant formal look for a wedding. Depending on the number of guests they can end up getting a little costly, so it’s a good idea to do your research first.

Before booking anything have a good look around to see what slip covers are available to you. Does the vendor charge per cover or in bulk amounts? More often than not, they will charge per cover but they will have a minimum amount of covers that you must order. Not all slip covers will fit all chairs, so if you find a style of slipcover you like, find out what dimension chair it will fit.

If you do have the intention to buy slipcovers, it won’t matter if the chairs you buy are chipped or scratched. In fact, you will probably get a better deal by buying some chairs that are ‘not-perfect’ aesthetically. Alternatively, look into buying chairs that are already in decent shape and look good aesthetically. This may eliminate the need for covers anyway and may turn out cheaper depending on the price.

In future Daily Wedding Blog posts we will bring you ideas and how-to guides in making your own chair slipcovers, further reducing the cost, so stay tuned!

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