
There are thousands of articles spread across the internet which list, in great numbers, all the things you can save money on at your wedding.
This article is not one of them.
I’m going to try and turn the tide a little and encourage you to empty your wallet on a few select products or services and I will tell you why – a wedding is a luxury.
You truly don’t need to have a wedding to get married.
You can sign the paperwork with a celebrant at a cafe, or if you’re really into government buildings, there is always the registry office.
There’s also the option of running away from wedding planning and eloping. All good options.
But if are having a wedding, I’m going to make the assumption that you’re not planning a terrible wedding. I am sure you are planning a good wedding, maybe even a great one!
So with that in mind, here’s a list of things, in my opinion, you should scrape your final dollars together for.
A marriage celebrant.
First up I am going to suggest you need me, or someone like me.
My role in your wedding is being your marriage celebrant – I’m the human who holds your wedding ceremony’s vibe by the balls.
A wedding ceremony is the thing that everyone’s actually invited to, it’s the moment where you go from being not married, to being married, and it deserves to be awesome.
So splurge on a celebrant that ‘gets you’, a celebrant who understands why you’re getting married and what that means to you. Get a celebrant that you would have a drink with even if you weren’t getting married.
My grandma always said ‘you should start how you want to finish’, so start your wedding with awesome.
Music.
The table settings and decorations won’t save your wedding if the music doesn’t complement the feel of your ceremony and reception.
Even more than that, if there are awkward gaps, or the uncle in-charge of playing the iPod doesn’t know how to use the speaker system, it can really ruin the vibe. Worse is an empty dance floor when all you want to do is party.
I’m always 50/50 on the live music versus DJ debate – they both bring different things to a wedding – so I’ll let you choose whether you go for a band or a disk jockey…but for the love of God, don’t go the iPod route.
Late night snacks.
Thankfully in Australia we have pretty high food standards so most bad wedding caterers have been run out of town by A Current Affair, but often a missing piece of the catering puzzle is the late night snacks.
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I’m curious to know, how many people here watch their wedding video? We didn’t do one, I’m not sure if any of our friends did. Do you only dig it out when the kids ask questions, or do you watch it often? Was it worth the money, or is it something that’s nice to have, but you probably wouldn’t bother if you did it again?
We watched it once (ours, not yours Rush). We only had one because a friend did it for free as he was trying to start a business out of it.
It was not good. I understand there's a limited amount you can do to make me look good, should not have had that issue with my wife!
Once after a big family dinner at my parents home, I was going through a stack of old VHS tapes. One of them was labelled as my sisters wedding. This was about ten years after the case. They'd never seen it; and had actually forgotten they even did it.
Did you watch it then?
I gave it to them. But they didn't have a VHS player. They talked about converting it to DVD; but I reckon it's still just sitting on a shelf somewhere.