as poignant as an acoustic guitar playing a beautiful ballad!  Call your local high school or college for musicians. 

 

Recruit someone you know to sing during the ceremony.  If you don’t know anyone who sings, find a place where they’re having karaoke and pick the singer you like best.  Offer them a small fee to sing at your wedding and – VOILA! – You have a vocalist to make your day special!

 

You want to be sure to have plenty of photos to remember your special day.  Unfortunately, a professional photographer can be a real budget buster!  Read on for tips on how to save with wedding photography.

 

SMILE PRETTY

 

Pictures are priceless, and you want to be sure you have plenty of good pictures of your special day.  Unfortunately, if you’re on budget, professional photographers can eat up most of your money.  While they are definitely worth the price, they’re not always feasible for people who need to save some money.

 

So how can you get beautiful photos of your wedding day without breaking the bank?  Let me tell you what we did.

 

With my first wedding, we were definitely on a budget and in no position to pay the $900 a professional photographer was asking – and that was in 1985!  My mother worked for a local newspaper and asked the head photographer there if he would be willing to take wedding photos for us. 

 

We paid for the film and developing, he took the pictures, and he got to eat and party at our reception.  The pictures were beautiful and we made our own albums at a