Getting married is an expensive proposition these days. Wedding supplies can be expensive if you don’t know where to look. Between the bride’s dress, the venue, catering, centerpieces, sparklers and all of the little details, many people spend $25,000 or more on their wedding.

Luckily, with a little creativity and common sense, there are many ways to cut expenses. A lot of it requires shopping around for the best prices, and occasionally, doing something yourself instead. Here are a few ideas of where you can find your wedding supplies, and often save some money at the same time.

Wholesale suppliers: Wholesale suppliers are a great way to purchase what you need for your wedding. Especially if you are having a large wedding with lots of guests, it makes sense to buy wholesale, and you can save a lot of money on wholesale prices. Wholesale is also a great option for wedding venues and wedding planners, who are buying supplies for many events instead of just one. Items like sparklers and centerpieces, as well as tablecloths and linens, can be found at discount prices.

Discount retailers: People love to save money, and as a result, there are many discount retailers where you can find much of what you need for your wedding. The stuff you find at these retailers isn’t necessarily cheap, either. Chances are it is actually very high quality. Discount retailers often purchase name brand overstock, irregular items, or last season’s stock and sell it at a discounted price.

Shop around: Don’t forget the value of shopping around! Even when you are getting your supplies from wholesalers or discount retailers, comparing prices is a good idea. Sometimes you might be able to find the same items, or something similar, for a better price from another retailer. Use shopping comparison websites, but don’t forget to do your own searches, as well, using local sources such as Craigslist and other websites, such as Etsy and eBay, where third-party sellers may offer better prices than large retailers.

Buy used: Some supplies for your wedding can be purchased used, with no one being any the wiser. For instance, linens for the tables can often be purchased used for a good price; if you rented linens, they would have been used and cleaned already, anyway, so the idea of “used” linens shouldn’t turn you off. Vases are another item that can be purchased used, often for a sizeable discount.

Do it yourself: Certain supplies for your wedding can be had for less money if you make them, or arrange for them yourself. For instance, handwriting the addresses on invitation envelopes, or printing them from your computer, can save you the money of hiring a calligrapher. With special paper and a good printer, you can also print your own invitations; wedding invitation envelopes can be purchased separately. Making your own favors, table centerpieces, place cards, and so on are other great ways to save money on your wedding.

The best way to save money on your wedding is to look for savings everywhere you can. Some things you won’t be willing to cut corners on, such as your dress and perhaps the venue, so it is important to look for the best prices in all the other departments. Wedding supplies like sparklers and centerpieces offer a lot of great ways to save money, if you are willing to do some price shopping and get creative about how you find what you need!

Everyones wedding day is unique and special, but there are certain flowers that we all die for when talking about that special day. And even thou many of us might use the same flowers we all used them in different ways, that is what makes our special day unique.

Through this article, I will take you down a very special garden so that you can pick some of the most wanted wedding flowers for you special day.

What would the world be like without roses? They are well known to inspire love and love and beauty, they also impose great elegance. From experience, roses are easy to work with. They allow themselves to be used in different types of arrangements such as kissing balls, centerpieces, bridal or bridesmaid bouquets. You can never go wrong with roses, especially these days when rose varieties keep increasing.

Along the same path, we have tall calla lilies which are beautiful and elegant. They do not require much effort since because they are beautiful just as they are. Commonly used for bridal bouquets, calla lily flowers only need around half a dozen callas wrapped with a stunning ribbon and you have yourself a beautiful bouquet. Mini callas are also well known to fit perfectly for grooms boutonnieres. Most brides go for the classic white callas, while others take risks and use more colorful ones. Either way, all calla lilies add elegance and beauty to wedding portraits.

If you have always dreamed of beauty and elegance for your wedding, but you are under a budget, ranunculus flowers are the perfect choice. They will not only suit your budget but also are the closest choice to roses and peonies. They also come in many different colors, open beautifully, and look extremely sweet and romantic.

For a vintage or an antique wedding, gardenias are the most wanted. These majestic flowers inspire purity, love and devotion. Moreover, gardenia flowers embellish your wedding flowers and decor to a platinum level. For white colored weddings, these flowers will scream elegance. If you wish to add a little bit of color, they go well with roses or colorful anemones.

Anemone flowers are the latest trend for weddings, and are simple, amazingly beautiful and unique in their kind. These flowers have gained a strong position in the wedding flower business lately. The white anemone with the black center is the perfect choice for an all black and white wedding. For a more spring or summer like wedding, anemones also come in bright stunning colors.

Most, if not all of these wedding flowers, are extremely popular by diy brides, wedding planners and florists. That is why they are qualified as the most wanted flowers for wedding.

These days, not as many wedding dresses have trains, at least in America. Many brides have realized that extra fabric on a wedding dress ends up costing them a little more. That, plus the fact that they cant see that part of their wedding dress all that well, and it drags on the ground, has made the train an extra accessory that some brides decide to eliminate.

However, theres nothing as elegant as the train on a wedding dress. Every royal bride has a long train as an integral part of their wedding gowns; that shows the regality of the bride, who deserves to feel like a queen on her special day. Wedding trains bring glamour, especially if it looks like it was part of the original design, as opposed to an add-on.

In general, there are six types of trains that wedding dresses can have. Lets take a look at each one.

The royal train is the longest of all trains, and of course, by the name, you know this is the type of train that the royals will have as their wedding dresses. Royal trains are extreme; they go back at least 10 feet, and obviously were planned to be there, as the silhouettes theyre attached to are blended so that the gown is seamless. This will definitely make the bride the center of attention.

The next train is pretty long also, and its known as the cathedral train. This train extends between 6 to 9 feet, and, as the term indicates, this was the traditional wedding train for religious ceremonies for centuries, and is still worn by todays brides for mainly Catholic ceremonies.

The next train that comes into religious favor is the chapel train, which only extends from 4 to 5 feet. This train was also a traditional religious train, but not for as extensively religious ceremonies as the cathedral train.

The court train comes in around 3 feet, and traditionally this was for weddings of lesser royals such as duchesses and countesses, though it was regal in its own way.

The sweep train is one that barely touches the ground, kind of sweeping the ground but not by much. This is probably the most popular train with todays brides.

The last train is more of an attachment than originally part of the wedding dress. Known as the watteau, it attaches to the top of the wedding dress at the shoulders, then falls to the length of your dress, or further.

Of course, wedding dresses dont have to have trains, but it just adds so much glamour to the occasion that we hope more brides decide to return to the days of long and elegant trains.

A good advice for making a wedding romantic and truly special is to make the ceremony debt-free and low-key as possible. Couples should save their money and not pay much attention to wedding advices features in magazines. Love is basically between the couple that will be getting married so its best they focus on each other.

A morning wedding followed by a luncheon reception is ideal, as it will give the couple enough time for their honeymoon, starting a new life and have enough energy to perform immediate post-wedding activities. Over 200 guests waiting at an expensive sit-down dinner will not add anything special to the romance.

A morning wedding will also help the couple save money and their eager energy and more than half a day to savor the moment of finally getting hitched.

Etiquette in a morning wedding

A morning wedding can be formal, semi-formal or informal. The bride can be outfitted with a short wedding dress or suit. In a formal morning wedding, the bride’s gown should touch the floor and veil fingertip or slightly below the middle knuckle of the mid finger. A fingertip veil becomes more attractive when it is used with an elbow length blusher. For a semi-formal morning wedding, the gloves and blusher veils are optional.

The groom’s attire is typically composed of a business, sportcoat or morning suit in accordance to the level of formality. In a semi-formal morning wedding, proper etiquette dictates that the groom can sport a dark stroller or suit without black or gray tails. In a formal wedding, a morning suit, which is composed of gray pinstripe trousers, ascot, gray vest and a cutaway coat, is suffice. The groom also has the option to wear a tuxedo if he wants to.

The groom and bride’s attire should complement each other. If the bride is wearing a casual short wedding dress, then the groom should wear a business suit or sportcoat instead of a tuxedo.

Regardless whether the wedding is during the morning or late in the evening, there is a certain etiquette that should be followed in the ceremony.

– Bridesmaids and groomsmen should assist in the ceremonies if the morning wedding is not held strictly in private.

– The bridesmaids should not have dresses that is not too eye-catching but will match the wedding dress. In addition, they should be younger than the bride. The dresses can contain more ornaments and should consist of light, graceful fabric. Flowers should serve as the main decoration.

– The wedding dress should be simple but elegant and can be decorated with few ornaments or jewels that come from the parents or the bridegroom. The dress needs to have an attractive veil and garland.

– The bride needs to be assisted by her bridesmaids in wearing the wedding dress, receiving visitors and locate themselves at her left side. The first bridesmaid for easy access should keep the bouquet and gloves.

– The clergyman should be received by the groomsmen and led to the couple that will be married. They will also serve as assistants for the bridegroom, during the occasion.

– Guests should wear something light and fresh. A breezy dress or a light-colored suit would be appropriate. Those who are fond of hats are in luck in a morning wedding, as wearing one will complement the ease and energy of the ceremonies. Dark suits and dresses should be avoided.

The Wedding Breakfast

If the bride appears during breakfast proper etiquette dictates that she sits beside her husband at the center table, while the father and mother occupy the top to bottom and greets the guests coming in. Once the cake has been cut and every one has eaten, which include offering a toast to the new couple and giving acknowledgements, the bride and groom meet with their friends and eventually exit from the ceremony.

The newly-married couple can start in their wedding journey at around two or three o’clock, while the rest of the guests and family member depart from the reception area shortly after.