Your event on a budget

So you’ve got a big celebration coming up, and you want it to be special. Only thing is, since the economy took a turn for the worse, the pennies are kinda tight at the moment, and getting some wedding catering is never cheap. Heres how you event can go off with a bang, without putting a bigger hole in your wallet.

• Cook the food yourself. Now with an event you’ve got hundreds of things to organise, and if someone has been hired to take care of it- that’ll help. BUT, you gotta save the pennies, and your not liking the prices the outdoor catering firm has quoted. So although it may be abit more of a burden, and another thing you will have to do, the easiest and cheapest way is to do it yourself. This could prove to work in your favour as you now have total control over your events food. So you can make a vegeterian dish for the only vegeterian there.
• Draft in favours. Seeing as your now holding the event yourself, your gonna need to call in those favours to get this done. Those favours your owed? Time to call them in, because you need all the people to help out that you can get. Get everyone who can help to help. This is not the time to be proud and try doing it all by yourself.
• Use a cheaper brand when shopping. If you dont mention it many of your guest wont even notice that you’ve swapped for a cheaper brand. The stigma over buying a cheaper brand or supermakrets own should be gone at this stage, especially when we’re in a recession. This will save on some more pennies, allowing you maybe to buy more or put that money saved into something else.
• Use you house as the venue for the event. Probably not what you had in mind, but it can still be a memorable party. You can now put that money back into the bank and smile about the fact you’ve saved afew more pennies. For a bigger event you could even, as long as you permission, use a location out in the countryside, for a touch of class.