10 New Budget-Friendly Winter Wedding Ideas

Winter weddings are gaining popularity these days. Weddings are no longer restricted to spring or summer time. You can have the absolutely romantic wedding of your dreams in winter. Don’t let the cold weather stop you. Instead, use the topographical beauty of the snow capped mountains and trees in your wedding pictures. Such beautiful scenery will surely create wonderful memories of your wedding that you’ll cherish for a lifetime.

A winter wedding reception should typically be held indoors. You can implement some of the most innovative winter wedding reception ideas without hurting your budget. You simply need to be creative and crafty at times to be able to make your own décor pieces. A DIY wedding reception can be innovative as well as cost effective.

You need to allocate a certain amount of your budget to each and every wedding item you are going to buy and then form a total wedding budget. For this, you would need to research the market regarding various accessories and their price ranges. You would also need to talk with a lot of people like confectioners, florists, etc to get some of the best deals.

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In the winter, you can experiment with the décor as well as your attire. In fact, the décor can be really cost effective if you use fewer flowers. This is because in the regions with snowfall, very few fresh flowers would be available and they would also be very expensive. However, it is difficult to imagine a wedding without fresh flowers. Hence, you can use some Daffodils, Anemone, Amaryllis, blue Touch-me-nots, etc. in your décor. They are available in winter and hence would be reasonably priced. You can also use Holly, Tulips and Jasmine.

One more option is to use artificial flowers. You can use a few fresh flowers and some flowers made of silk in your bouquet. Silk flowers also look quite beautiful. You can use edible sugar flower decorations on your cake. Many of these flowers are available ready-made with most of the confectioners.

Using plenty of silk and crepe fabric in your decorating is another good option and would be very much in your budget. These fabrics look good on the main wall, pillars, etc. they add plenty of grace. You can use pastel and bright shade combinations like red and pink, white and bright pink, etc.

Christmas style decorations are also a good option for your winter wedding. You can actually put up a Christmas tree and decorate it just the way you decorate for Christmas. Keep this in the center of the hall. One more idea is to surround this tree by gifts and favors and let the guests keep one favor for themselves. You can have some special small gifts if there are any kids in your wedding. This would be fun for kids and would seem more like a Christmas gift. The gifts need not be expensive but should be useful items.

One more option is to fill in your décor with plenty of candles. This looks good especially if you have your wedding in the afternoon or evening. It gets dark early in winters. Hence lighting of candles early in the evening after 4pm would also be a good option. You can make your own candles at home. Also, there is plenty of variety in the market that would surely fit your budget.

It is essential that you have a budget planned for your wedding irrespective of the season you are getting married in. It is possible to have a dream come true wedding absolutely in your budget if you plan it well. Probably, the only drawback of a winter wedding is that you need to start preparing well in advance. You need to contact the wedding planners, confectioners, decorators, etc well before you might think you should approach them.

Some of these people are part time wedding planners and hence work only in the traditional wedding season (spring and summer). In winters you would find them doing something else or a full time job. Hence, it might be difficult to track them down in winters. However, if you do it all on time, it is possible to get the best deals out of all of them.

Author Bio:

Hi, I am Sophia Joseph. I am a wedding planner and blogger. In this article I am sharing an idea about winter wedding and how to plan a cheap wedding or planning your wedding in a budget.

One last thought:

If you decide to go with fresh flowers for your winter wedding and are wondering which flowers are considered winter flowers, take a look at flower delivery and look at the winter flowers page for lots of pictures and examples of winter flower bouquets that can be delivered to your wedding.