Wedding help...............?

Question

we are having a nice outdoor wedding and a indoor reception at a hall thats only going to cost us 150.00 for 5 hours,,,our color is light blue and yellow i have 240 wedding favor bags,,,120 yellow and 120 light blue,,,i got them off of ebay for about 11.00 all together,,,,i love sunflowers and its a summer theme wedding,,,,,we were thinking about maybe finding someone we know to get married in there yard, thats still up in the air the wedding a few years away so we could save and slowly plan,,,,,,,my mom and i are going to make the invertaions we are both very crafty that way,,,,,and so it my furture sister in law and mother in law,,,,,,,we are also going to buy and prepair the food, to save money, and my moms going to make the cake,,all i have to do it buy everything to make it,,,,,,we dont have much money and we both have big familys,,,,so our small wedding might be big,,,we are also having 5 to attendents each,,,,,sibling and a few friends,,,,,,,,we are figureing that i will pay between 200.00 and 600.00 on a dress which i can pay,,,,,but we are figureing that we will only have about 1500 to 2000 to spend on the rest of everything we need for the wedding,,,,any suggestions please help, oh and we are also using our 2 dogs to carry the rings,,cloe and blizzard both huskys please help

Answer 1

Google "Oriental Trading Company" and you will see that they have a lot of wedding stuff for really cheap. I used them for some of the stuff on my youngest daughter's wedding this past spring. Looks like you have everything else taken care of.

Answer 2

Why not make the dressed yourself and save a ton of money.  Surely there is someone in the family who can sew and not charge you to make them.  Or, don't have as many attendants or ask them to pay for their dresses.  Especially if you are having them made.  If I were you, I would leave the dogs out of the ceremony.  They are unpredictable and you don't need the possibility of something going wrong while you are saying your vows.  Don't have a sit down meal for your reception.  Just have two cakes and some nuts and punch.  Your cake and the grooms cake.  A great punch idea is White Grape Juice and 7-Up.  Very inexpensive and very tasty.  If you are real concerned about how many people are going to be there for the reception, you might consider finger sandwiches.  I would not go overboard on the food.