Expensive wedding ideas aren’t hard to come by — head to any wedding show and you’ll see $20,000 receptions, $10,000 photographers, and $5,000 dollars every turn. Cheap wedding ideas are harder to find; After all, why would anyone in the wedding industry want to help you spend less money?

If you know where to look, cheap wedding ideas are everywhere. Weddings are different from other parts of life. If someone gets a cheap purse, cheap shoes, or a cheap car, they will probably try to hide it or make it look more expensive than it is. However, when people have a cheap wedding, it is an achievement! Instead of trying to hide it, they brag about it.

Friends and family are your first sources for cheap wedding ideas. Ask about the locations, how they made their flowers or how they made such beautiful invitations; If you can get people talking about your wedding, they will be more than willing to share.

Look at wedding forums for more ideas. Message boards are full of regular people like you, whose weddings are constrained by their budget. In these close-knit communities, members share ideas and advice with each other.

If you want information from an authority, there are many wedding books available. Many of those wedding books are specifically geared towards those who want creative ideas for a cheap wedding. They are written by people who have planned their own cheap weddings, or who have inside knowledge about how the wedding industry works and how to avoid overpaying.

Once you know where to look, there are plenty of great sources for inexpensive wedding ideas! Your problem will not be to find ideas, but to reduce ideas!