Wedding Ideas For Spring on a Budget

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Bridesmaid Dress Cameron in Fog. By: Kennedy Blue

If you’re looking for wedding ideas for spring on a budget, you can start by choosing a non traditional wedding venue or menu. You could plan a dinner dance at a church hall or community center. Or to save a ton of cash, consider a brunch, a cocktail party or even a desserts only wedding reception. Once you’ve chosen your venue and menu, you can find spring wedding invitations, decorations and flowers to fit any size budget.

Affordable Spring Wedding Ideas

If you’re on a tight budget, the best place to start saving money is on your wedding venue and your wedding meal. Spring is perfect timing for lighter, less expensive wedding food.

Brunch Wedding Reception

Sunny and romantic, brunch is a great theme for a spring wedding. One of the biggest expenses for your reception will be the catering. If you’re trying to save money, breakfast or brunch food costs a lot less than dinner. If you plan a brunch wedding, you’ll save on alcohol, too. Most guests won’t expect a full bar at a daytime reception. You can offer mimosas or a champagne toast and still save a bundle.

Cocktail Party Wedding Reception

If you want to have an evening party, but your budget’s too small for a full dinner, you can plan a cocktail wedding reception instead. As long as you don’t invite your guests at meal time, you can serve appetizers and cocktails. The reception will need to either end before dinner, or start after dinner. You’ll still have time for a grand entrance, wedding cake and an open dance floor.

Desserts Only Wedding Reception

For the smallest budgets, an afternoon reception can be planned with desserts only. If your reception happens between lunch and dinner, it’s fine to serve only light refreshments. With a cake and punch reception, you can celebrate your new marriage with a short, but fun wedding. 

Bridesmaid Dresses Cameron in Wisteria. By: Kennedy Blue

Outdoor Wedding Ideas For Spring

Another way to save money is by renting space at a local park with a pavilion or gazebo, and planning an outdoor wedding. An outdoor wedding is usually casual or semi-formal. This type of wedding will help keep all of your costs down.

When your wedding is less formal, you can offer buffet or family style service instead of individually plated meals. You can choose an affordable menu, too. As long as it’s tasty and filling, it’s ok if the food is less formal.

A wedding menu that includes chicken, pasta and salad is always a favorite. If you’re having a casual or rustic wedding, you could plan an I Do BBQ for a fun reception. To save even more money, you could DIY or semi-DIY your wedding food, instead of hiring a traditional caterer.

Bridesmaid Dress Allison in Rosewood. By: Kennedy Blue

Affordable Spring Wedding Flowers

If you’re using live flowers, choosing types that are local and in season will help you stay on budget. If you’re using silk or paper flowers, you can choose any blooms that match your wedding colors. 

Some Popular Flowers For Spring Weddings:

• Peonies

• Ranunculus

• Sweet Peas

• Cherry Blossoms

• Lily of the Valley

• Roses

• Calla Lilies

• Tulips

• Hydrangeas

• Lavender

• Eucalyptus

• Babies Breath

• Daffodils

• Daisies

• Carnations

Spring Wedding Bridal Bouquet or Bridesmaid Bouquet. By: SongsFromTheGarden

Dusty Rose, Blush Pink and Cream Bridal or Bridesmaid Bouquet. By: JOYQFLORALINC

Custom Colors Bride and Bridesmaid Bouquet Sets. By: DaisyMillerCreative

Spring Wedding Colors

You can use any color scheme for a spring wedding. The ones that work the best are those that highlight the lightness and freshness of the season. Classic choices like sage, blush and lavender are all great choices for spring.

For an easy color scheme, you can choose a spring color like blue, pink or purple, then add white. Or you can choose a color combination, like sage and pink, blue and blush or lavender and grey.

Bridesmaid Dress Milly in Sage. By: Kennedy Blue

Wedding Themes for Spring

If you want a simple theme for your spring wedding, you can choose your style and add a color. Decide if your wedding will be formal, semi formal or casual. Then add your favorite spring time color to your invitations, bridesmaid dresses and bouquets.

If you want an easy way to make decisions for your wedding, you can pick a theme. Choosing a theme like roses, wildflowers or butterflies will give you an easy way to choose all your wedding items. When you’re looking at things like invitations and decorations, having a theme will make it easier to narrow down the choices.

Some Popular Spring Wedding Themes:

• Spring garden

• Cottage garden

• Cherry blossoms

• Wildflowers 

• Greenery

• Lavender

• Butterflies

• Bicycles 

• Birdcages

• Love birds

• Rustic birds

Dusty Rose Bird Wedding Invitations. By: michellerayewedding

Spring Wedding Invitations on a Budget

Your spring wedding invitations are the perfect way to introduce your wedding colors or themes to your guests. If you’re looking for cheap wedding invitations, choose a design that fits all the information onto one card. Ordering only one piece for your wedding invitation will be less expensive than ordering a whole suite. 

Sonnet Wedding Invitations. By: Minted

Secret Garden All In One Wedding Invitations. By: Minted

Ideas For Cheap Spring Wedding Favors

Wedding favors aren’t a must have. But if you’ve got room in your budget, they’re a nice extra for your guests. The most popular wedding favors are edible treats.

Some couples set up a candy bar and provide small bags for guests to fill themselves. Or you can make treat bags ahead of time and set them out where each guest can take one.

Personalized Wedding Favor Stickers. By: StickEmUpLabels

50 Personalized Chocolate Wedding Favors. By: PartyArtForever

Spring Wedding Decorations

Flowers and greenery are perfect for decorating a spring wedding. If you’ve got a smaller budget, you can find less expensive pieces of decor.

If you can’t afford an entire floral display, you can make decorations from inexpensive fabric or chiffon. Then use flowers and greenery as accents.

Banners and balloons are another great way to fill lots of space on a small budget.

Flower and Ivy Garland - Silk Flowers and Greenery. By: HandcraftsInStudio

Tissue Paper Flowers - Spring Wedding Decor. By: PartyTouchesUK

Dusty Pink and White Balloon Arch Garland Kit. By: LetsPartyCreations

Cherry Blossom Spring Wedding

Springtime is cherry blossom time! Festivals around the world celebrate the seasonal blooms. The romantic pink cherry blossom is the perfect accent for everything from wedding invitations to decorations and bouquets.

Cherry Blossom Wedding Welcome Sign. By: ArtHomeBoutique

Cherry Blossom Wedding Invitation Suite Template. By: EternalStationery

Cherry Blossom Artificial Flower Garland. By: ChicChicFindings

Bird Themed Spring Wedding

Birds are always a welcome sign of spring. For a unique and pretty wedding theme, try using bluebirds, lovebirds or rustic birds. You can find invitations, favors and even cake toppers with birds in every style.

Delicate Garden - Bird Invitation Suite. By: AmiraDesign

Personalized Lovebirds Cake Topper. By: DoTheDeco

Personalized Bird Seed Wedding Favors. By: LovetheEarthCandles

Wildflower Spring Wedding

Wildflowers are a perfect theme for a spring wedding. The blooms are a beautiful accent for wedding invitations and decor. You can even send your guests home with some wildflower seeds to plant in their gardens.

Wedding Invitation Template With Wild Herbs and Flowers. By: LovePaperEvent

Personalized Rustic Wedding Cake Topper, By: LexingtonHillDesigns

Plantable Wedding Favor - Seed Paper. By: ADaytoRememberStudio

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Collage of photos from a spring wedding.

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