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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 23025" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Congratulations!</p><p> :smile:</p><p>Since you have a lot of time, I'm sure you can come up with all kinds of ideas. </p><p></p><p>My daughter and sister in law pulled together a lovely family wedding in just a few months time without spending a fortune, so it can be done. They splurged on some things, economized on others. They were living in the town where his family lives and had the wedding there, so his family did most of it. Her dress was the BIG splurge, and his mother and aunt bought it for her as a gift. But it's a <em>really</em> nice dress! </p><p></p><p>My sister in law made their invitations himself on his computer and they're beautiful! You can buy the blank card stock for the invitations and the matching envelopes in a stationary store. You can't tell the difference and it cost them a fraction of what having them printed would have cost. She had only one attendant, her cousin as Maid of Honor, which saved on flowers too. They couldn't get a decent professional photographer on short notice, but several family members (including the uncle with the GOOD camera!) took pictures and then we pooled them - they ended up with lots of lovely photos.</p><p></p><p>They had LOTS of help from family and friends, which really made the difference. Instead of an expensive restaurant meal, the rehearsal dinner was a big BBQ at his grandmothers house for the wedding party and anybody else who wanted to come, with family members contributing the food. Much nicer and lots of fun too. And a low-key way for both sides of the family to get acquainted, since we were meeting for the first time.</p><p></p><p>The reception was held at a large hall that is part of the church, which also provided the perfect excuse NOT to serve alcohol! :blush: Saved a TON of money that way, plus it kept a few of the guests from "over-indulging", if you know what I mean, so they didn't have to worry about that either! And instead of serving a sit-down meal, they had the wedding cake, punch, and lots of snack-type things, also provided by family members. Some of his aunts also did the decorating in the reception hall and provided most of the utensils, etc. </p><p></p><p>One thing they did for the reception that I LOVED ... was a long row of pictures of the two of them, about 10 or 12 pictures each, hers on the left and his on the right. On the far ends were baby pictures of each of them, then pictures of each as toddlers, then in elementary school, etc. They each get older as you go toward the middle ... their H.S. graduation pictures, then her nursing school graduation picture and him in the military ... then in the very middle is a lovely big picture of the two of them together, their engagement picture. I had made it through the whole ceremony without tearing up, but then that darned row of pictures got to me! sister in law did those on his computer too, just scanning old pictures, making them all the same size, then printing them out. Cost next to nothing, and it was lovely!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 23025, member: 1883"] Congratulations! [img]:smile:[/img] Since you have a lot of time, I'm sure you can come up with all kinds of ideas. My daughter and sister in law pulled together a lovely family wedding in just a few months time without spending a fortune, so it can be done. They splurged on some things, economized on others. They were living in the town where his family lives and had the wedding there, so his family did most of it. Her dress was the BIG splurge, and his mother and aunt bought it for her as a gift. But it's a [i]really[/i] nice dress! My sister in law made their invitations himself on his computer and they're beautiful! You can buy the blank card stock for the invitations and the matching envelopes in a stationary store. You can't tell the difference and it cost them a fraction of what having them printed would have cost. She had only one attendant, her cousin as Maid of Honor, which saved on flowers too. They couldn't get a decent professional photographer on short notice, but several family members (including the uncle with the GOOD camera!) took pictures and then we pooled them - they ended up with lots of lovely photos. They had LOTS of help from family and friends, which really made the difference. Instead of an expensive restaurant meal, the rehearsal dinner was a big BBQ at his grandmothers house for the wedding party and anybody else who wanted to come, with family members contributing the food. Much nicer and lots of fun too. And a low-key way for both sides of the family to get acquainted, since we were meeting for the first time. The reception was held at a large hall that is part of the church, which also provided the perfect excuse NOT to serve alcohol! [img]:blush:[/img] Saved a TON of money that way, plus it kept a few of the guests from "over-indulging", if you know what I mean, so they didn't have to worry about that either! And instead of serving a sit-down meal, they had the wedding cake, punch, and lots of snack-type things, also provided by family members. Some of his aunts also did the decorating in the reception hall and provided most of the utensils, etc. One thing they did for the reception that I LOVED ... was a long row of pictures of the two of them, about 10 or 12 pictures each, hers on the left and his on the right. On the far ends were baby pictures of each of them, then pictures of each as toddlers, then in elementary school, etc. They each get older as you go toward the middle ... their H.S. graduation pictures, then her nursing school graduation picture and him in the military ... then in the very middle is a lovely big picture of the two of them together, their engagement picture. I had made it through the whole ceremony without tearing up, but then that darned row of pictures got to me! sister in law did those on his computer too, just scanning old pictures, making them all the same size, then printing them out. Cost next to nothing, and it was lovely! [/QUOTE]
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