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  • Consider having a morning wedding with a lunch or brunch reception. This can be very elegant, and for the same money, you don't need to give the appearance of "scrimping."

  • Have the servers pour wine during dinner. If you just put the open bottles on the table, you will find heavy drinkers have requested extra bottles to be opened, while some tables will not have touched the wine at all, and it will be wasted.

  • Unless it's really part of your family tradition, don't be talked into a full-blown sweets table at 10 pm. No one needs all those extra calories! Have the caterers put out some nicely presented fresh fruit and the wedding cake.

  • Speaking of cakes, you don't need to buy a full cake. Many bakers can give you a single layer of "real" cake, with a fake base, and a sheet cake with plain white royal icing, for less than the cost of a multi-tier real wedding cake. You use the fake cake for the cake cutting pictures, take the real layer home to enjoy for your anniversary, and the caterers cut up the sheet cake. No one will really know the difference!

Evelyn

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