10 Money Saving Tips: How to Cut Wedding Costs Smartly in Malaysia

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Tips 1: Start your wedding planning as early as possible. It gives you more time to visit wedding expo in town. Compare the wedding photography, wedding celebration party and wedding dinner packages as many as possible. Each of the packages may have their own selling points. Find the best package for yourself at affordable costs.

Tips 2: Confirm your preferred gowns for photography and dinner section as soon as possible before it’s were selected by others if you are too late. It might end up paying extra costs for choosing better gowns from their “VIP selections”, convinced by their sales person.

Tips 3: Be careful on the total poses allowed for your wedding photos albums are sufficient if you don’t want to pay extra money to upgrade your package at the end of the day. Example: 20 poses are allowed to be used in a 20 pages album. That means each page will have 1 pose of your photo only which is insufficient for designing purposes.

Tips 4: Request for free DVD wedding photos slides show to be included in the package. Else, I’m sure there will be someone among your friends able to do it free for you or DIY.
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Tips 5: Consider your wedding ceremonies to be held at school/college’s multipurpose hall or the best restaurant in town for your wedding dinner instead of do it at resort or hotel ballroom. It saves you lot money.

Tips 6: DIY Backdrop for Wedding Dinner if not provided.

Tips 7: Make a call to confirm your guests’ attendance to fully utilize the seats.

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Tips 8: Ask help from friends to be your wedding photographer and videographer. I believe they are more than happy to do so. Don’t forget to reward them at least an angpao ya!

Tips 9: Buy gold ring instead of diamond or white gold type, which are normally much more expensive.

Tips 10: DIY on the wedding car decoration. Ask around your friends and relatives, and don’t be surprised, you will find out there are many of them did that before with many new ideas.

How is your perfect wedding look like? Welcome to share with us your special wedding ideas!