You can have a nice wedding w/ $5K. We had our wedding out of town and still managed to be under our budget.

Where do you live? When are you getting married?

We got married on the beach only cost us $150 for the officiant.
You can find a park in your area to have an outside wedding or a beach if you are close to one.

Our cake was $150 from the grocery store...it was 2 tiers and able to feed 150 people..we only had about 75 there plenty of left over

I had artificial flowers...for my bouquet, maid of honor, flower girl and 2 boutonnieres for the guys cost me $175

We did get a deal on food. My brothers best friend own an italian restaurant so we booked the party room and had a buffet dinner we only paid for food and drinks no alcohol. $1000 again this was for 75 people and had tons of leftovers.

I did buy favors but this is not required I wasted money honestly no one took them.

We did buy gifts for our attendants...a bracelet for my maid of honor and a flask for the best man $100 they were engraved.

Invitations we got online from www.invitations4less.com they were wonderful to deal with

My mom paid for my dress so I did not have to worry about that expense.

We did not have a dj as it was only close friends and family. After dinner the wedding party and friends went out dancing instead.

As for pictures a family friend is in photoghaphy school she did our engagement pictures and all day at the wedding before and after for $500 (we did not discuss $$ we thought she did so well and sent her $500 she was more then appricative). You can either get someone from your family to do pictures or contact your local college and see if they have any photoghphy students who would be interested.

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