Comments on: The Frugal Wedding: A Celebration of Love

By: Juliane

Juliane — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:20:15 +0000

I am a very delicate girl so I was more than content with the small and quiet wedding by the sea we had in October. I wore a simple, classic dress (pictures on my blog), after the ceremony we had coffee and cake at my parents’ house and in the evening there was dinner with the closest relatives in a restaurant. The only thing we sort of splashed out on was the hotel which was this one: http://www.grandhotel-heiligendamm.de/en/

By: charlene

charlene — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:47:52 +0000

I had a simple but special wedding. I dont think its right to spend a fortune with the divorce rates

By: j m. smith

j m. smith — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:52:24 +0000

The first time my husband and I got married (3years ago) we made a run for the courthouse when about 4months into our wedding planning we found out we were expecting. Well, we’ve been together five years now, the hubs is a real “good old southern boy”, and although he wanted to leave the napkin color picking to me, he also always saw himself sharing his wedding day with his family. what did i do? planned a surprise wedding. matter of fact it’s july 3rd of this year. we have way less money then we had then, so it’s a shoe string budget, but i’m a crafty girl, and the theme is carnival so fun times abound. plus, it’s about us and our love, having family there i just a bonus. check out the blog if you’d like to get some ideas for your own.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:17:39 +0000

I was the same about the dress, but when it came to it couldn’t find one I liked, but I did find a fabulous coat that made me feel really glamorous and thats what I ended up wearing after dreaming for years about my perfect wedding dress!

By: Daisy

Daisy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:15:54 +0000

Our wedding cost us $1500 (AUD) including clothes, rings, registrar and certificate, food, cake, car and photography. After having a wedding like this I don’t understand those people who will choose between their parents paying for their wedding or receiving a deposit on a home – and they choose the wedding!! Our families let us know they weren’t in a position to help us hugely with our wedding, and neither of us was willing to dip into our home deposit savings.
So we got married in the park next to the courthouse (the registrar didn’t have a problem with this, seeing as he only had to walk 100 metres from his office). Paying for the actual ceremony was the mos expensive part, and my husband’s family all put in and gave us this as our wedding gift.
We used a trainee photographer who wanted a wedding for his portfolio, and basically just paid him for his time and a cd of all the images so we could (and do) print whatever photos we needed and liked at our leisure. This was my families wedding gift.
I wore a coat over a skirt and nice blouse, and my husband wore a suit jacket, a nice shirt and his denim jeans (yep, thats us).
We had our “reception” in a family Italian restaurant, so lots of filling pizza and pasta.
Our rings are simple and elegant and after shopping around a bit we managed to get both rings at a locally owned jewellers for the price of one ring at the bigger chain store jewellers.
I don’t regret it one moment, and when I look at our wedding photos they speak volumes about who my husband and I are as a couple and as individuals.
Good on you Glendy and Henry for sticking to your guns!

Here’s the link to the photobucket album if anyone wants to look :D
http://s335.photobucket.com/albums/m442/daisyfinlay/wedding/