Let’s be honest. No bride wants her wedding to be remembered as cheap. And even if you are on tight wedding budget and can’t afford much, you certainly don’t want it to be obvious to your guests. Fortunately, if you play your cards right, no one has to know you’re on a smaller budget.
Experiments confirm that how something is presented influences its perceived value and a person’s experience of it. For example, a ninety-nine pence cake will look and taste like a ninety-nine pence cake when it’s wrapped in cellophane and purchased from the late night garage next door.
But, when presented with a flowery dollop of icing on a lacy doily and attractively plated it can magically transform into a lovely, rather impressive ten pound gourmet delight.
Just like the cake, with the right presentation, your budget wedding can slip under the radar by appealing to your guests’ visual senses as an upscale event. When your wedding decor makes a grand statement, your guests are more likely to see your wedding as a high caliber affair and are less likely to notice any places you had to scrimp and cut corners.
How to Pull Off Inexpensive Wedding Decor
The simple fact is that much of the wedding decor that YOU, as a future bride (or groom) can purchase from a site selling wedding supplies online is the exact same stuff that the wedding designers who charge hundreds of pounds a day buy, they just don’t want their clients to know that.
Those fancy shiny chrome balloons that look so very classy? Yep, you can buy those online and for a lot less than you think. The same goes for beautifully coloured chair sashes, themed glassware, fancy wedding favour boxes, beautiful paper decorations that match your wedding colours and much more.
The trick then is to put it all together in the most appealing way. However, with the help of Pinterest – was there ever a website created that was as helpful to brides planning their wedding than Pinterest is? – and a few friends and/or family members willing to put in a little work you can use the inexpensive wedding supplies you purchased online to create something pretty spectacular that no-one will ever realise is ‘DIY’.
