Step 4: Flowers

Flowers can cost a ton of money. To eliminate this large chunk of your budget, consider silk flowers. Many stores, such as Michael's, JoAnn's or Hobby Lobby, sell beautiful silk flowers for a nominal fee. If you don't like the idea of silk flowers, how about mixing and matching? Instead of having all silk flowers, try limiting the quantity of real flowers you order from the florist. Have the florist use real flowers for your bouquet and your bridesmaids' bouquets, and even get a few gallons of fresh rose petals, but don't think that you have to have thousands of fresh flowers everywhere in order for your wedding to be beautiful.