My friend is getting married. She is has little $. I need ideas for decorating cheap? colors are pnk/brwn.?

My best friend is getting married and they have very little money to plan and have the wedding. I need help coming up with great ideas for the wedding on a budget of $500. She already has her dress and all the bridesmaids are buying their own dresses. Guys are buying their own shirts. Help with flower ideas and decorating for the service and reception. Her colors are pink and chocolate brown. Any ideas for any part of the wedding would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks.

My friend is getting married. She is has little $. I need ideas for decorating cheap? colors are pnk/brwn.?
What about framed pictures of her and her hubby as centerpeices or decorations? Use a different picture for each table. You could scatter rose petals around it. Keep flowers to a minimum and consider buying them on line and arranging them yourselves.



Also, you don't give much detail on the size of the reception, but think about using an iPod play list instead of a DJ.
Reply:Artificial flowers all the way. This is what we are doing. You can get them for around .30cents each. Then use each bouquet as a centerpiece on every other table at the reception. Tulle is also VERY cheap. If you are having the ceremony and the reception at the ame place, focus on decorating the reception as that is where most of the time will be spent. Good luck!
Reply:To keep prices down and still get nice things here are a few ideas.



craigslist

ebay

goodwill ( the clear bowls that you see with floating candles are .99each - also sometimes you find new tings that people donate for whatever reason)

dollar store

walmart also check out there clearance aisle.



Good Luck
Reply:if the total weeding budget is $500 then the only way you cloud afford flowers is by steeling them from neighbour yard. Why don't you get balloons and not flowers? You could also cut off big branches from a tee spray paint it, put it in to a nice bucket, and hang off of it pictures, butterfly, flowers, beads, leaves..................





You could Gert all the girls and bake cakes and use them as centrepiece, or make candy apples and use them as deco



this is the idea

http://www.etherealdecor.com/crystal_wed...



http://www.manzanitacreations.com/



search manzanita trees if you like the idea. They could be used as centrepiece or if its relay big it could be used as alter
Reply:Start at your local dollar store such as Dollar Tree. They have tons of decorations - even for weddings - and it's definitely worth a trip to see what they have in store today. Look at sales at your local Garden Ridge, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc. and see what's on clearance. Consider asking a few friends or even family members for a small contribution ($50 to $100 per person) to help with the wedding costs. That would help you increase your budget.



Good luck!
Reply:Here's a wedding checklist that may help you out. And if it doesn't, at least it's funny!

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Reply:Here are a couple of sites that may help.



http://www.thebridesbouquet.com/



http://www.save-on-crafts.com/gifandpac....
Reply:to start with go to any of the diy sites for bridal... plan what you want there. then go check out your local dollar store for the materials. most dollar stores where I am at has alot of wedding decorations I got 99% of mine there.. and yes looks nice.
Reply:for my wedding we used silk flowers from the dollar store , and we had our reception as a picnic outside , was real cheap, but looked great and everyone loved the out door reception , beer and wine was actually biggest exspence, good luck
Reply:My wedding was pink and brown and it was beautiful! I suggest going to hobby lobby (if you have that store) getting fake flowers. That's what I did. I got the pink calla lillies, they looked real. They are really cheap. I got alot of pink and brown ribbon. I outlined the top of my brides table with both of them. I got a thick brown ribbon and a thin pink one and put the pink one on top of the brown. I could go on and on. I had a tight budget as well, but it looked like I spent gobs of money.
Reply:Get disposable camera's for the table, that way they will have loads of pictures and cheap too... since they can drop them off to have them developed.



You can go to a fabric shop and get pink tulle and use brown table cloths, you can find different styles of vases both large and small, paint them and place fake flowers in them to decorate. Then, head to nature. We spray painted pine cones and such for our wedding as decorations and it looked fabulous!



For the service, you can decorate with fabric or ribbon, and can usually find it all pretty inexpensive to boot.



We did white tulle down the sides of the pews in our church, and used 3 silk flowers in my colors and hot glued it to the tulle at each pew. We only did the first few pews that would be seating for immediate family members.



I hope this helps!