Wedding Venues On A Budget - Nine Top Choices For Chic

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Have a wedding budget that's all soda-pop-and-bread, but you can't stop swooning over a champagne-and-truffles kind of celebration?

Never fear - you're about to learn how to combine "beautiful" and "affordable" in your wedding planning, because you'll discover 8 smart, creative and fun ways to pull off a blockbuster wedding on a really tight budget!

1. Choose a wedding venue that offers discounted space on a weeknight or weekday and get a contract for 25% to 50% off, depending on the facilities they offer. These times are typically in low demand, so most vendors, especially in small towns or remote/suburban locations, are likely to be open to a better rental rate for their venue.

2. If you're having a religious church or temple ceremony, try and plan it around a festive time, such as a major holiday or after someone else's wedding. This way, your place of worship will already be decorated for the main event, and you'll only need to add in some wedding trimmings or small wedding accents to complement the existing decor.

3. Opt for romantic, cost-effective and simple touches, if you're planning to ...
... wed in a church or similar religious venue, by saving on artificial lighting and air conditioning costs. Plan for a short and intimate ceremony at dusk inside the premises, and get married by candlelight! It's gorgeous and offers great soft lighting for flattering photographs. Plus, it's romantic and easy on the pocket!

4. Call up your favorite restaurant and ask for frequent diner benefits. If you can't rent the full restaurant, you can book a private room, or even the back garden if the landscaping is pretty, for hosting the ceremony and maybe a bit of dancing!

5. Check with the local city park authorities if they issue permits for hosting wedding celebrations. Some have fountains, covered patios or arbors that can be easily made over into cheap and beautiful wedding venues with a bit of clever outdoor wedding decor, like paper lanterns, snow spray, reflective wall art and so on.

6. Other great budget wedding venues you can ask about are local theaters and performance halls. Apart from being unique and dramatic, these can provide a historical or contemporary backdrop for planning theme weddings. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is an awesome wedding venue for local residents who get a discount on the rental rates! Or, if you live in a town offering one of those retro movie theaters, plan your wedding ceremony here to add some unusual variety-show charm and get married on stage!

7. If you were lucky enough to go to college at one of those campuses full of beautiful, architecturally-significant period buildings, why not find out about cheap hall rentals? Rates are usually reduced for alumni! Ivy-fringed halls, grand chapels and even some modern educational buildings, like those refashioned from renovated industrial structures, make for unusual and affordable wedding venues!

8. Need to keep a wide variety of wedding guests busy at your wedding? Why not plan it next to a fairground or amusement park (avoid peak hours for best prices) to ensure that your wedding guests are suitably entertained and that affordable refreshments are close at hand, too!

9. For a cool mix of history, local lore and adventure, arrange a nature ramble to the old mill or barn owned by family/friends and host the wedding there. Or book the famous microbrewery in town and prepare to offer your wedding guests an 'ale' of a time!!
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