Wedding Must Haves That You Don’t Need

It's almost wedding season again and if you're working on planning yours, here's some helpful information that could save you a bunch of time and money!

Planning a wedding is almost always overwhelming, unless you throw all plans to the wind and just take off to the courthouse. However, many women want a fairytale wedding that they've dreamed about since they were little girls...myself included.

While I was planning my wedding though, I realized there was a ton of stuff I just didn't need. Sure, it seemed nice, fun, pretty, whatever, but is it necessary? Not always.

Here's a list of things that you might think you have to have for your wedding, but it turns out, you don't:

1. An Engagement Party:

You're already getting a party with gifts and attention, it's called your wedding. Plus, you'll probably get two of those great parties because someone will likely throw you a bridal shower. I know you're excited and you want to tell the world, but save your money and skip the engagement party.

2. A wedding website:

It's not necessary because you can just include all of the info that you want people to know, on your invites! Plus, I don't know about you, but my older guests (friends of my parents, grandparents etc.) don't even have internet, so a wedding website was completely useless to them.

3. A wedding party:

Initially, I thought this was a 'must', and tried planning out a wedding party...there were two things I saw a lot of with this: drama and money. I wanted to save both so I nixed the whole idea of a wedding party and saved myself and my friends a bunch of money.

4. A wedding cake:

Sure, most people have a wedding cake...and most people end up spending hundreds (if not more) of dollars on it! Save yourself some money and go with something else! It's your day, you can truly do whatever you want, whether it's a wedding pie, cupcakes, or just a dessert table, it's your call!

5. An expensive wedding dress:

Remember, you will wear this dress for one day, and not even a full 24 hours, you'll wear it for like 8 hours.  You don't have to spend thousands of dollars on your perfect dress.  Try looking in smaller lesser known dress shops and look for dresses on sale or ones that are being discontinued.  I bought my dress at a local shop in Fall River, Gilda's Place of Bridal, it was a designer dress, but the style was being discontinued, so I got it for 70% off! Score!

6. Wedding favors:

Trust me when I say this, no one will notice or care that you didn't give them a favor.  Unless it's edible, like chocolate, they usually don't want it, and the favors you spent money on will sadly be left behind and get thrown away.

7. A Weekend Ceremony:

Save some moolah by getting married on a weekday!  You can save thousands of dollars if you get married on a Thursday or a Friday, or really any other weekday.  Sometimes that's not convenient for everyone though, so how about a holiday?  Maybe Memorial Day Monday or my personal favorite, the Fourth of July!