Introduction

Wedding on an extreme budget:

My husband James and I got married on June 12th of 2012. We had very little money for the affair, plus we both find it highly distasteful when people spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on ONE day. So we went for simplicity and DIY ingenuity plus a lot of help from our friends to make our wedding as cost effective as possible.

I wanted to break-down for others how a wedding can be done on around $2,000 and still be elegant and lovely. When I searched for budget weddings in planning my own, they were still talking about budgets starting at $5,000 to $10,000. Well, in my mind you shouldn't spend on one day in your life enough money to make a down-payment on a car or a house...