BUDGET Wedding Advice from TIKTOK | Wedding Planner REACTS

Hi and welcome to Union Podcast. My name is Jamie Wolfer and I'm a wedding planner who absolutely loves to share how I got started and scale my business to above six figures in this amazing and occasionally extremely competitive industry. In this podcast, I share the tech, tactics, mindset and mistakes that got me to where I am today. No gatekeeping, no cloak and dagger, just full disclosure and a little humor along the way.

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Solopreneur, my goal is for you to be a better business person than I ever could have been and support you on this journey. I let's dive into this week's episode. In order to be effective in the wedding industry, sometimes it's extremely important to know what are the pain points of your audience. Today we're going to take a listen to one of my most popular YouTube videos in the audio form. Because every once in a while it's a good idea to step away from the video and let it hit that brain centered a little different with just the audio. You know what I'm saying? So let's take a listen.

Well, hello lovely humans. Welcome back to my channel. My name is Jamie Wolfer, your online wedding planner, and today we're going to be tackling the TikTok yet again. You see, I've been doing budget wedding advice since the beginning of 2018, back when TikTok was just a lip syncing app. Okay. So I've been around this game for a while. Why? Because I got married for less than $10,000 and it was really hard to find resources out there that inspired me to start my business, start this channel, and also something called the Master Plan, which allows me to be your online wedding planner and walk you through all the decisions you need to be making with live phone calls and budget spreadsheets and all that jazz. If you want to join me over there, I'll link it right here. So I think that makes me a little bit equipped to react to some of these budget advice TikToks. So without further ado, let's just jump right on into it.

My three biggest hacks to save you a sick amount of money at your wedding. Sick disclaimer. These three things are websites that you could shop at for wedding Items. First are two websites. They're called AliExpress and Alibaba. They're like a Chinese version of Amazon and they literally have everything at wholesale pricing.

Yes, but you have to buy them at wholesale amounts. Never. Just keep playing.

Tell you that 50 to 75% of my wedding items came from these sites. I am not kidding. Like, my flowers.

Flowers.

All my silk flower arrangements, my arches, my candelabras, the fans that I bought in wholesale, the glow sticks that are custom with our name, everything that would have cost me a fortune if I either rented it through vendors or bought it on Etsy. Literally saved me so much money. And do you want to know what the best part about it is? I could have rented my silk florals or arches from someone, but I bought them for less money than it would cost to rent them. Or, like, this same money, and I sold them. So I made money off the stuff that I would have rented and just immediately lost the money for. So it does take time. It's not the quickest because it's coming from overseas, but if you plan in advance, this will save you so much money.

Notice that everything she listed beyond florals are not necessary. Like, I mean, candelabras, sure, but, like, you don't have to buy them from overseas. You could get some here. Thrift stores are fantastic places to get for candlesticks. I have thrifted so many brass candlesticks over the years, you guys. I have a metric ton of brass candlesticks. They're stunning. I love them so much. But when we're talking about stuff like custom glow sticks. Hold on, let me rewind and make sure. Like, I just want to drink. Initials, fans, custom names at each plate, personalized glow sticks, et cetera. All of those are superfluous. They're great. We love them. They add some dimension to your tabletop and to the overall experience. But the best way to save money on these is to not buy them. My dad would be so proud of me right now. My parents used to say the best way to save money is to not spend it. And here I am on the Internet telling it to thousands of people. Look what you've done, Doug and Robin. Are you so proud? So, I guess in a nutshell, yes. Those are places where you can buy those items at a cheaper rate if you're buying them in bulk. My suggestion would be, if you're really balling on a budget, to do, like, a third of the things she listed.

Facebook marketplace. And if you think I'm the type of person to buy things secondhand, I'm not. But for my wedding things like candles, where I'm literally going to use them for what stuff? Seven hours. And if I buy, like, 20 of them brand new, it's like 300 bucks. And I could go buy a hundred on Facebook Marketplace for less than $100. Of course I'm gonna do that.

Okay. Love this plan. Love that journey for you. Love Facebook groups. You should join mine. It's absolutely massive. It's over a hundred thousand people. I'll link it over there. Sorry. I just love that group so much. You guys are. It's literally the best. The budget minds that come together in this group. Love you. Two pieces. Just be careful when you're buying used candles. Make sure there's enough burn time left on them. We're not talking about little tea lights.

Okay.

We're talking about pillar candles here. Even tapered candlest will look a lot different if they've been used. Okay. Okay.

Literally crazy how candles and wedding items go like hotcakes on Facebook Marketplace. The key to Facebook Marketplace is also, like, checking buying groups that are in your town. So I live in New York. I cannot tell you how many wedding groups there are that just buy and sell items. It is crazy. It's so competitive. Like, if you're a second too late, the item's gone. But there's so much that I bought and I saved because I got it on Facebook Marketplace and I was able to sell all my wedding items so quickly by reposting them.

First of all, I'm choosing to not take it out as a personal offense that she doesn't shop secondhand. That's fine. This dress is from Goodwill. I got it for $8. Isn't it so cute? Thank you so much. I'm a huge advocate of shopping secondhand. Like, most of the items in my home. Not most, a lot of them. Maybe 50% secondhand. Love it so much. I think it's great. It's great for your pocketbook. I don't why I don't use the word pocketbook in normal sentences, but here we are. It's great for the environment. And then you get like, cool, unique pieces when people would be like, where'd you get that from? You're like, oh, I thrifted it. So that's a journey that I would.

Love for you to have.

Now imagine you having that for your wedding items. So good. So, yes, Facebook Marketplace is a great place. You're gonna have to train the algorithm to kind of do that for you. Facebook groups, like buy, sell groups are another really, really good idea if you have one that's local enough to you. Like, I'm in the Waco, Texas area. I don't think we have a buy, sell, trade group for wedding specific items. I think I would have to go to either Dallas or Austin for that. And Then does the cost of driving there outweigh the cost of how much you'd save to get it? Yada, yada.

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All right, third website.

Third website is Amazon. And before you say anything, I know this is obvious, but it's not because there's a little hack to Amazon. So if you buy things within a 30 day period before your wedding, which I would highly recommend you wait to do, you're gonna see there's a lot of stuff you purchase that you're not gonna use or you got extra because you didn't want to run short of go return it to Amazon. It's literally a joke to return all your wedding items or right back to Amazon. Maybe things that you, I don't know, took out of the box, you lightly use them or like didn't even use them, return them like Amazon. Don't come after me for that. But I literally made thousands of dollars back from things that I bought in bulk and never ended up using from Amazon. Key theme here is spending money on things that you could actually make your money back on. So yeah, I could have rented certain things from certain people or purchased certain things from certain vendors, but instead I got them on my own so I could easily resell them afterwards. And I think if you have that mentality, you could save so much money on your wedding.

Okay, I'll give credit where credit is due. The whole reselling thing, brilliant. If you have mental capacity for it. I did not. I do not. I suck at returns. My husband has to do them for me. If you are a bad returner, then you understand where I'm coming from. This whole selling on Facebook marketplace thing for me, not very effective at it.

Okay.

I'm going to tell you, honest, I'm not. So if we have things to sell. My husband was sick because he. Because he can. But also to be fair, that social media for me and I get a lot of notifications on Facebook because of.

What I do here.

So it just gets a little overwhelming. That's the excuse we use. So the husband does all the Facebook marketplace shopping and selling and stuff. The whole returning to Amazon, that's just like a moral gray area when you say lightly used. But I get where you're coming from when it comes to like returning things that you have not used. But what items would those be? Because I feel like we've already ordered so much decor and like fun dance floor items and customized things. From the first website that.

What.

What else is there? What else is there? So do with that what you will. The whole Amazon situation. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go on to the next video.

10 Ways to Save money in your wedding budget that will not impact your guests experience. From a seasoned wedding professional, a mobile bar owner, and a frequent attendee of weddings. As a guest, everything I'm going to share with you are my opinion, so you totally don't have to agree. But from my experience, these are things that your guests really won't notice if you don't have. There's some alternatives to the standard or traditional and then just some overall guidance to save you a couple bucks. Wedding is not cheap at all, so anywhere you can save is great. Let's get to it. Don't get cake for everyone. Easy enough. I'm talking about that big tiered wedding cake. Unless you are doing a plated cake service and dropping cake at each seat, not all of your guests are going to eat wedding cake. I typically recommend a smaller tiered cake for cutting and pictures and then having a sheet cake in the back that the kitchen can cut. Serving it on a dessert table or scrapping wedding cake for everybody and doing an alternative dessert, cookie table, mini desserts, you name it. People just want something sweet.

I'm sorry, did I just get vindicated on the Internet? I did. I think I did.

I think I did.

I get so much hate every time I tell people, yo, chill on the cake, okay? Because not as many people are gonna eat it as you think. Let's walk through the dynamics of a cake, okay? A tiered cake. A tiered, gorgeous, five, seven layer monstrosity that is literally out of a magazine. We love to see it, okay? But that's really expensive. And if we're talking about budgets, then that's all in it, okay? Or you make room for it. But it, in my opinion, it shouldn't be. Here's why. Your honor, allow me to present my case. Number one, not everybody likes cake. So if you get enough cake for all your guests, there will be some leftover that is not consumed. I've seen an entire, on multiple occasions, an entire layer of cake tossed into the trash because there is no box to take it home in. There's no Saran Wrap. The kitchen staff is not equipped to package it. We have no way of sending it home unless someone just wants, like, sit with it on their lap. Like, we got. We got nothing. Number two, what else is there? Oh, not everyone likes cake. Part two, dessert tables as you all know I've worked with Amy a ton of times in the past. She's wintreats on Instagram, recently moved to the Nashville area within the last year or so. Is she technically in Franklin? I don't know. I feel like. I feel like a bunch of people from California moved out there, and those all kind of blend together. But if you're on the hunt for someone to do dessert tables in that area, call her. Here's the deal. Something that she says is, like, you want to get food to please a myriad of palates. You want something with berry, you want something with chocolate. You want to kind of vary things up a little bit, because that way you'll please a myriad of tastes. If you are just offering one thing, one item, even if it's one cake that has different flavors, if people don't like cake, they're not going to consume it. So if you want to up the chances of people consuming the dessert you've spent a lot of money on, add some variety in there. The sheet cake idea, we love to see it. Just bear in mind, if you're serving cake and not like dessert, multiple, like, little mini desserts, you will need napkins, forks, and plates for everyone who's consuming for all the slices. Basically, you'll also need someone to cut the cake. And if you don't have a catering staff to do this, you need to figure out who's doing that ahead of time, which might end up being your mom or your photographer, but typically vendors who don't have a food handler safety license. The thing that. That I don't have, so I don't know what it's called, you can't. You technically aren't allowed to cut the cake. So obviously I'm team dessert table. Next step up from that would be sheet cake in the back if you have someone to cut it and plate it for you. And then last resort would be like.

A tiered cake number two. If you are leaning towards real flowers, think about doing a smaller or petite bouquet for your bridesmaids. Nobody is staring at the bridesmaids bouquets.

I am, to be fair. But I really like real flowers, so I really like bouquets. But that's not everyone's niche. So if that just. If you just heard that and you're like, I feel it off the hook. Good. Okay. But just for the record, there are some people who do look at the flowers. Okay. Not saying you have to do them, but they will be appreciated if you do.

I've even seen people doing beautiful single stems and there are people out there that are like, that's cheap. Nobody cares. Like I said, nobody is staring at the bridesmaids bouquets. And you know what one of the number one left behind items are at the end of the night after a wedding reception. Bridesmaids bouquets. And one of the most things that I find on the ground, Groomsmen's boutonnieres.

Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The second photos are done and they start, like, hugging people. If I'm the person that attaches the boutonnieres, I tell people I'm like, hey, just think, like, side hug, okay? Like, okay, don't do full frontal assaults because you will squish the flower. But at a certain point, maybe two beers in. The groomsmen obviously don't care anymore. The boutonniere no longer matters. All the photos have happened and they will literally just like, shred apart like sad confetti all across the dance floor. So she's right. She's right. And the bridesmaid bouquet is being left top tier. Top tier. Yeah. This gal knows what she's talking about.

This list. Skip the boutonniere for the groomsmen. Have them do a pocket square or have it just plain number three. Scrap favors completely. I've said it before, but favors at a wedding are not mandatory. If you have them, fantastic. They can be a larger, unknown, unnecessary spend in the budget. If you are going to do favors, I highly recommend doing something edible. Those are the favors that are never left behind, and they also can double as a dessert for your guests.

Okay. Love to hear it. Love to see it. Favors are waste. I see so many left behind. This is something I've talked about for a lot of years, although I do. I will. I do need to clarify. Something that y' all have taught me over the years is some clarifications of cultural experiences. There are some cultures that expect to get favors. If that's your culture, do it if. If you want to. If that's a cultural tradition that you subscribe to. Okay, not forcing you to do anything. But try as I might, I'm not aware of all wedding cultures around the world. One person, I'll never forget this comment said, well, she's clearly never been to a Nigerian wedding. And I went, no, I have not. I have not been to a lot of different cultural weddings. So take all that with a grain of salt, but don't we love disclaimers.

Because Internet number four is kind of common sense. But avoid printing menus and ceremony programs if you don't have to. Or if you don't have a big wish to have those things, they are not needed. If you're doing a buffet or stations, typically the food will be labeled up on those tables. If you are doing a plated meal at each seat, you could always do a table menu. Maybe on the front side will be a table number. On the back side will be a communal menu that your guests at your table can look at or you just don't have a menu. Guests have already placed their entree selection. They know what's coming their way. If they are unsure, they can ask the staff or the culinarians to clarify what's being served.

The fact that you said they already placed their or like they know what they're getting. And culinarians, not that I don't work those type of weddings myself personally, but culinarians. You mean the taco truck, ma'? Am. I mean, she's right. She's right for the demographic that she likely works. I just think it's funny when we're talking about budget advice. Culinarians, I love it.

Having ceremony programs and not having printed food menus is not hurting your guest experience.

And also this is one of those, like really small things, right? Because in the grand scheme of things, printing up programs, if you're doing it, you know, through your local printer shop or printing them at home, it's not that expensive. Obviously if you're getting them custom made by someone, we're having a different conversation. But if you're diying these, it's not that big of a deal. But say it with me. The best way to save money is to not spend it. You know, if you decide to skip the garter toss, then you're not spending money on the garter. If you decide to skip hard alcohol, then you're not spending money on the hard alcohol. You're like, I'm like trying to come up with things. Yeah. The best way to save money is to not spend it. And those are things that you don't need. But in the grand scheme of things, that's a. It's small savings, but it's a savings.

Skipping the champagne toast. Now, if the champagne toast is included in your catering package, that's fantastic. Then do your champagne toast. If it is not, it sometimes is anywhere between four to eight dollars per person. To pour a champagne toast. On top of that, you have to rent champagne flutes for guest.

4 to $8 per person. Do you know that if you like, go to the champs section, you got your eyeballs and you like, look down a little, you can find a whole bottle for like $8. Okay. That's the level of, that's the level of budget we're working with here. Okay. The champagne pour is a very orchestrated thing. It requires bartenders and or servers to pour them, ideally as close to the toast as possible. So that's a lot of action happening for a lot of glasses in a very short amount of time and then getting them all passed out. So we're talking about a lot of labor here and a lot of budget weddings don't have availability or servers to do this amount of labor. So for a lot of us, this is a non issue. But if you are considering it, just bear in mind, if we're talking four to eight dollars a person, that's a lot.

Scrap it and you allow your guests to toast with whatever they're drinking for the night. You are saving yourself quite a bit of money.

And not to mention a lot of people don't like champagne, which I don't understand. I love champagne. My mom's drink of choice is champagne, so whenever we go to her house, she always has a bottle. And it's just like, it feels like a tiny celebration every time we hang out. But like. And some people don't drink at all. So just toasting with what you have is a great idea.

Number six, repurpose, repurpose, repurpurpose. Take whatever flowers you are using at your wedding ceremony and use them where you can phony backdrop and put it behind the sweetheart table. Any florals hanging from the chairs, use them at the escort table, use them at the bars. Any floral arrangements on the ground. Double S centerpiece. Work smarter, not harder.

People caveat to this. And this is actually shout out to. Oh, gosh, what florist was this that told me this, told me this. Probably posted on her stories about it. She's like, okay, yes, you can repurpose. Some of us florists prefer that you don't. Or at least warn us if you're going to, so we can design the item accordingly. So if you have a cage which is like, it's like a literally a plastic cage with floral foam in it, you have a jumbo cage on your arch that's going to be undone and then placed somewhere, let's say on your sweetheart table or on your head table. Yeah, stuff like that is totally possible. But obviously if it's been arranged to be horizontal and now you're placing it vertical, there could be gaps in the design once you set it on the table. So this is just a helpful little hint conversation to have with your florist. And also who's moving all those items. You just want to make sure you have a plan for that. It's great. We love that. We love repurposing bridesmaids bouquets. If you go for a bigger one, obviously, single stem, I guess you could repurpose that. That if you want, you can absolutely plunk those down into a mason jar, and that can double as more decor for your reception space. And that could be a suggestion that you give to the bridesmaids so that they could be doing the labor on that. But bridesmaids bouquets are typically a little bit taller because they need, like, the stems to hold on to. So that would mean that the vase that they go in would need to be a little bit bigger or be one of those situations where it, like, falls over just a little bit, doesn't look quite right. So just kind of work through some of that. Keep some of that in mind. One thing that we did for our event is I found a bouquet holder on Amazon, y'. All. I can't believe I've never shared this. How have I never shared this? We've been doing content for so long. I've never brought this up. That literally, because I did a cascading bouquet, and I used one of the floral foam, like, mini bouquet cages to make it, and that had a plastic handle in it. I literally slipped it into this, like, little bouquet holder on the front of our table. So then it was able to. We had, like, the greenery draped, and it was able to kind of like anchor the center of our tabletop. So there are ways of doing this, but you just have to be strategic about how it's designed and who's doing it.

Number seven, diy. All the easy things. Table numbers, a cards and gifts sign, or bar signage. Those are things you want at your wedding. You can purchase templates off Etsy, off Canva. You can create, print and put in a frame, and it does the same thing as a big acrylic sign. Truly doesn't matter. And your guest experience is not going to be impacted by your wedding signage.

I completely agree. In fact, if you don't know what wedding signs you need to have, I'm gonna go ahead and link my wedding sign guide right up here for you to download, because it can get a little bit confusing. There's, like, needs optional, total. I forgot what the categories are. Download it. It'll be a surprise for you and me. But sometimes you don't know which signs you're supposed to have. You know, the overall thing is just a little confusing. So, yes, I love diy. I love Cricut. I've partnered with them in the past. Not partnered with them right now, but. Cricket, if you hear this, you want to hang out, call me, okay? I miss you.

I love you.

You are looking for an excuse to purchase a Cricut machine? Enter here. Great. I. I think there's so many things that you can do with this. I personally, here I am talking about budgets, and I'm like, you should spend several hundred dollars on a machine that cuts things and writes for you. Listen, it's so. But it's Cricut. It's so much more than that. It's so much more than that. But it doesn't have to be that hands on, like she said, getting templates on Etsy, super simple to do. Make a couple adjustments and then send it to your local printer and have it done that way. Or if you have a talented friend who can kind of put stuff together for you, maybe you can say, hey, in lieu of a wedding gift, can you do this for me? Which, by the way, bartering.

We love to see it.

We love to see it.

Number eight. Opting for a seating chart over individual Escort cards. Printing individual escort cards. Making sure the right entree selections on there. Getting them in alphabetical order, folding them. Not only does it add up quickly, it also is more stress. If you create one singular sign on, like, a foam core board and put it on an nasal, it's more cost effective and less stress.

Yes. But again, kind of back to the whole, like, menu program thing. Yeah, obviously, if we do a bunch of that, that really does add up. Escort cards, in the grand scheme of things, if they're pretty simple, they're tinted like that, they're not a lot. They're not a lot. Cost wise. They are a lot, though, mentally, administratively. That's a lot of things going on. Someone's setting those up, alphabetizing those. It is a lot more stress. She's correct. Correct. The one one bound pick I have with this little tidbit of a device is if. Please don't use a foam core board. Please, please, please do not use a foam core board, because someone's gonna drop it. Okay, Someone. Or the wind's gonna pick it up and blow it away. This is why one of the handiest tools in my wedding kit, my emergency kit, is blue painters tape. Because signage goes flying. Because people just don't prepare and they're not thinking about it. And it's okay, but the amount of foam core boards that corners are bent on, probably 50%, maybe even higher. But also, buying acrylic sheets is not that expensive these days. So if that's the vibe that you're looking for, like, totally do it. Like, it's become so popular that they're a lot more accessible than they used to be. Just don't do foam core. Okay.

9. And I will preach this because I work at a venue. Ask your venue what is available to you or what is included in your rental and use that to your advantage. If your venue is offering tables, chairs, dance floor staging, you are saving easily 3 to $5,000 in rentals. You don't have delivery fees, you don't have setup fees. Do not sleep on your venue. Maximize your space to the best of your ability.

Yes, but your venue should be telling you so if you book it and you're like, oh, wait, you have chairs. They didn't do the tour. Right? So yes, now you could say, hey, is there any chance you have a decor closet where things are stored that, like, we can use for our event? I've had a couple of venues like that where they're like, hey, we've had people just leave things because they're also bad at returning things after they purchase them and they try to make their husbands do them, but they didn't want to do that either. So it's just, here's a closet full of table numbers and signs, etc. I had literally a handful of venues do this and it was great. And the brides that we've worked with have totally taken advantage of that. I have to ask if they have chairs or tables, you know, like that. You should already know that. But that's okay. It's still good advice. Like, if your venue has it, use it. Unless you don't like how it looks. That was my case with my venue. I hated the chairs. Hated them. They were conference style. And the suggestion was to use those, like, stretchy fabric things to go on top of them. No, ma'. Am. No, ma'. Am. We rented chairs and then we borrowed tables from the local church and put them in a U haul because your girl needed a U haul for all of her DIYs. So take advantage of what the venue has to offer. But ideally, you shouldn't have to ask.

In the Last 1. Number 10. Be very thoughtful in your guest list. When you are thoughtful and really thinking of who's going to be there to celebrate you, your guest list will shrink. We all know weddings get Very expensive because of the price per person. Less people, less money. Not only is it going to save you money, it is going to enhance every single person's experience at your wedding. Because everybody there is going to be your number one fan. It's easier to make connections because their connection is you. Here it is, people. I've shrunk myself so you can save your screenshot. These 10 things are my recommendations. Happy wedding planning.

Number one, budget killer. Number one. Way to just blow through your budget. Have a giant guest list. Because obviously, if you think about it, they're sitting in a chair at a table with a tablecloth and a centerpiece, eating dinner, drinking the drinks, having dessert. And so the more people you have, the higher those costs are going to be. A lot of your budget is contingent on your overall guest count, the amount of people that are attending. I do think that even if you have 150 people, the common denominator is still going to be you guys. Right?

Like you as a couple.

So just because it's smaller, that doesn't necessarily mean the case. But this is. That's me nitpicking. This is my favorite bit of advice from the entire thing. And if you're listening to that, going like, I don't know how to be thoughtful about my guest list, you should probably go watch the video I made about guest list rules. That will kind of help you decide. Okay. But I'll leave it at this. You can either let your guest list dictate your budget or your budget dictate your guest list. I've seen a gorgeous wedding done for 320 guests at no more than $20,000. It sounds like a lot, but that's 320 guests. I've also seen an $80,000 wedding with like 20 people. So obviously we've got some pretty giant variations here. I have so many more of these. I was hoping I could fit more than two of these into this video, but here I think it's time to call it on this one. I have tons of budget saving hacks on my channel. I highly suggest you jump on down there, hit subscribe. I'm here to help you out, help you plan easy and stress less because you deserve to have a stress free wedding day. Now I have compiled those budget saving tip videos into a little playlist for you. I'm going to go ahead and link it right here if you are interested. So you can check it out after this is done and then figure out what you want to do from there. How about you? What is one of your favorite budget hacks that you were implementing for your wedding, let us know down in the comments down below. Help each other out because who knows, you might inspire someone to make the same choice that you are making and save a little bit dough on their event as well. So that's all we have for today's video. Guys, thank you so much for watching. If you haven't done so already, jump on down there like this video if you like the video and subscribe to this channel for more tips and tricks for the modern day bride. And until next week, bye guys.

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