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Wedding Budget Savers

By Clotilde MenendezFor http://www.craftybegonia.blogspot.com/

In no time at all it would be June, the favorite month for weddings. Are you planning a wedding on a

budget? It is suggested by some planners that to save money you stay away from expensive flowers such asroses, lilacs and orchids and choose the simpler flowers such as daisies, carnations, mums, baby's breathand gladiolus. Avoid a wedding date that is near a big flower-buying holiday. You can also ask your flowerarranger to use less flowers and insert a lot of bows in between the foliage as "fillers" in "pocket" spaces,making the bouquets less expensive. If you want to save some more in the church decor, why not make thisinexpensive heart CroMander and use it to decorate the pews? You can use satin ribbon or 2 strands ofwhite and gold or white and silver number10 cotton crochet thread, add pearls and glass beads, gold orsilver beads, and sew a pretty white satin or metallic ribbon to hang it from and you have saved moneyright there, use white ribbons to tie in between one pew and the other and decorate the center aisle wherethe bride will walk through and you're done!

This is a picture of a regular pomander or kissing ball these can be used as bridesmaid bouquets, as abridal bouquet and also as centerpieces for your table. If you know a great crocheter, or if are one yourself,you can make yourself something similar to this but all crocheted up with seed pearls and even Swarovskicrystals, using a florist pomander ball as the core of your CroMander. You cover all of the florist ball withcrochet as if you were going to make the head or a doll, fasten it off. Then you make your roses or IrishCrochet flowers and sew them onto the crochet-covered ball, add seed pearls, bugle beads, anything youlike. At the top, you place a beautiful ribbon with a bow and you are done. If you want the ball to lie on thetable as a decoration or if you would like to make several to lie in a row on your reception table, then makesmaller bows, not leaving any part that will hang. If you want to add leaves, you can make them all beaded


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up with glass beads or with green pearls. At the end of this ebook, youll find a link to how to make asimple CroMander which will give you the basic steps on how to make yours. All you need to do is to use alarger ball for the inner core of the CroMander, and use thread to make it as dainty as you would like, suchas number 10 white and gold cotton thread, for example, or number 10 white and pearl cotton thread, it youwould like a translucent sheen.

Use silk or dried flowers instead of fresh ones in table centerpieces and add ribbon bows and some heartCroManders also. If you are using little girls as your bridesmaids, you can use the original pattern for theround CroManders, using large, florist balls as the core of the CroManders, and then fill them with IrishCrochet Roses with seed pearls or glass beads at their centers. These crocheted pomanders with a ribbonsewn to the top will be delightful and delicate and at the same time, way less expensive than a regularflorist pomander! You can also give them away as keepsakes as reminders of your special day. If you areplanning your wedding on a budget, you must cut cost somewhere, especially if you are thinking abouthaving site flowers for the ceremony, a gorgeous bridal bouquet, wedding party flowers, flowers for yourparents and his parents, and reception centerpieces and floral displays. If you run that up, it can take a bigchunk out of a limited budget. If you are afraid that Irish Crochet hearts might look rather home-made,don't be! It all depends of how good a crocheter the person who makes them for you is. My mom and Imade all the blue roses for my sister's wedding favors and they were gorgeous! Talk to the person, tell herwhat you want and you'd be surprised at what lovely things could be made for you. If you consider thatthere are people spending anywhere from $1275 to $2751 on flowers alone according to a site on the

internet, these kinds of arrangements look better and better. Besides, as I said, you can make them asexquisite as you want to, going from simple little seed pearls all the way to Swarovski crystals at the centerof the Irish Crochet roses, you could even do the leaves all beaded up!

According to an online wedding budget calculator, flower expenses could run like this in the USA on 2009,(these are the highs and the lows for a fabulous wedding):

New MexicoFlowers: $1275 to $2108Gifts and Favors: $640 to $1059

Washington StateFlowers: $1576 to $2602

Gifts and Favors: $791 to $1306

MontanaFlowers: $1316 to $2192Gifts and Favors: $660 to $1102

North DakotaFlowers: $1352 to $2253Gifts and Favors: $678 to $1132

MinnesotaFlowers: $1643 to $2713


OregonFlowers: $1424 to $2373Gifts and Favors: $715 to $1190

IdahoFlowers: $1317 to $2196Gifts and Favors: $661 to $1102


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WyomingFlowers: $1444 to $2405Gifts and Favors: $724 to $1208

South DakotaFlowers: $1383 to $2306Gifts and Favors: $694 to $1158

IowaFlowers: $1470 to $2449Gifts and Favors: $739 to $1230

MichiganFlowers: $1626 to $2673Gifts and Favors: $816 to $1342

New YorkFlowers: $1730 to $2796Gifts and Favors: $869 to $1404

MaineFlowers: $1474 to $2456Gifts and Favors: $739 to $1233

OhioFlowers: $1543 to $2556Gifts and Favors: $775 to $1284

PennsylvaniaFlowers: $1565 to $2574Gifts and Favors: $786 to $1292

Virginia

Flowers: $1726 to $2785Gifts and Favors: $866 to $1398

West VirginiaFlowers: $1285 to $2142Gifts and Favors: $646 to $1076

IndianaFlowers: $1528 to $2543Gifts and Favors: $767 to $1277

IllinoisFlowers: $1677 to $2751


MissouriFlowers: $1430 to $2359Gifts and Favors: $719 to $1184

KansasFlowers: $1525 to $2511Gifts and Favors: $766 to $1262


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ColoradoFlowers: $1708 to $2785Gifts and Favors: $858 to $1397

UtahFlowers: $1463 to $2431Gifts and Favors: $735 to $1221

NevadaFlowers: $1569 to $2615Gifts and Favors: $788 to $1313

CaliforniaFlowers: $1726 to $2771Gifts and Favors: $866 to $1391

ArizonaFlowers: $1485 to $2449Gifts and Favors: $745 to $1230

TexasFlowers: $1421 to $2333Gifts and Favors: $713 to $1171

LouisianaFlowers: $1235 to $2057Gifts and Favors: $620 to $1034

MississippiFlowers: $1213 to $2022Gifts and Favors: $609 to $1016

Alabama

Flowers: $1342 to $2235Gifts and Favors: $675 to $1123

GeorgiaFlowers: $1398 to $2307Gifts and Favors: $702 to $1158

South CarolinaFlowers: $1351 to $2251Gifts and Favors: $678 to $1130

North CarolinaFlowers: $1459 to $2420


As you can see, crocheting your pew decorations, your wedding favors and the decorations for your tablesettings will be a big help. That will free up money for the fresh flowers that you would like to add to thewhole decor and for your bouquet, your parents' and your future parents-in-law corsages, etc.Variations: You can buy silk flowers and take them apart and hot glue some of the silk flower petals allover the CroManders and then sew the Irish Crochet roses on top. You can use silk flower leaves as foliagealso to make the foliage "fuller."


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If you would like the free pattern for the pomander-style CroManders, which you could make a lot largersimply by using a florist circle as the core of the ball, here it is:http://craftybegonia.blogspot.com/2009/03/cromanders-part-2.html

If you would like to use the heart CroManders to decorate the church pews and to scatter around as part ofthe decor, here is the free pattern:http://craftybegonia.blogspot.com/2009/04/heart-cromander.html

Free instructions on how to make pew bows:

http://www.save-on-crafts.com/makeabow.html

Think about putting a spray of Irish crochet roses in the middle of the bow. Lovely!

Whether you are making your own flowers or taking the pattern to someone else to make them for you, canfind a selection of books on Irish Crochet complete with many flowers and leaves, including roses, free todownload as PDF files for you to print at this site:

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm

For great FREE tutorials, become a follower of Craftybegonias Blog:

http://www.craftybegonia.blogspot.com/

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