For the diy brides, are you buying or renting your decorations?

View quoted message Thanks! It took a few tries to get it right, but it’s done! Haha!

View quoted message The sign looks so good!

Love love love diy projects. Adds such a personal touch to it all. It has saved us a ton of money. But also because we are having a small mountain wedding, that also saved us on cost.
I have done the centrepieces, favours, flower girl basket and all the signs myself. I’m also re using mason jars I already had on hand for flower vases.
Honestly, Amazon is your best friend if you want to do DIY projects! I just finished this “neon” sign last night!

I did try to diy in the beginning but for what I wanted it became more expensive to buy everything! And then trying to sell everything after. Also that stuff takes up space in your house that you may not have room for!

Look up maby studio!!! She is fabulous!
I’m getting all my decor through her for 1200 including set up and take down!
I had a list of all the decor I wanted and she truly cares about her clients , she immediately was like you do not need that much decor to achieve the look I want while still keeping my budget I had! I thought it was so kind of her to be honest and not try to scam me for more money!
Her prices are amazing! And I don’t have to have any stress of people setting up , taking down and how everything will look. You have to think about transporting and the decor to the venue and back home. Who your going to ask to help do that. Because at 12am when everyone’s had some drinks they may not be willing to help clean up! If there’s a wedding the next day you may not be able to keep all your decor at the venue and pick it up the next day. And that’s the case for me. My fiancé and I didn’t want to hassle friends and family to clean up the venue at 1am after a very long emotional day!

She sets up sample tables to show you, so you can see the vision come to life! Can not say enough great things!!! I’m so happy I get to just enjoy my day and not stress about the tiny details!
https://www.instagram.com/themabystudio/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
You tell her your budget and decor vision, she will stick to it and create something beautiful 🤍🤍

I’ve bought everything (which I’ll resell) and will be DIYing a lot. We did rent a backdrop from the same company that’s supplying the chairs though.
We also hired a day of coordinator to setup and take down

Personally, I went the rented route for a few reasons:

1. I dont really have the extra hands to set it up myself

2. I didnt want to have to deal with resell after (already have enough Im trying to resell hehe)

3. Honestly, just didn't want to have to worry about decor at any aspect of the planning

Overall, I think we are around $1500 for 9 tables and set up take down. And the bulk of our costs is take down and set up, but it was worth it for us.

Some things to keep in mind when it comes to DIY vs rental: do you have someone you trust to set things up, or do you yourself have the means to set things up (early access to venue)? do you have the space to store all the stuff you buy? do you want to deal with selling everything afterwords? Do you want to go through the process of FINDING what you need?

If you are looking for some decor rentals, I cannot recommend Ruby at The Maby Studio enough. She has been the absolutely best to work with!

We aren't having a lot of decor. What we are buying that won't be given to guests I am doing to try and sell it through marketplace and wedding sell/swap groups on Facebook.

We've bought all of our decor and will try and re-sell most of it afterwards through marketplace and our local wedding sell/swap groups on facebook.

I think it depends on how much decor... I bought some stuff and reselling from Facebook wedding groups. I also made things!!

I found it much cheaper to buy and resell. A lot I found on my local Facebook wedding groups (like the hurricane vases and votives). I even sold my partially uses candles. I got charger plates from a rental company closing, resold for the same cost. I did make our signs myself so it cost me maybe $5 per acrylic sign. I made acrylic name things for each place setting and sold the extras. Used bottles for our table numbers (painted and used my cricut) and then sold them after as well. Definitely worked out cheaper for us. Happy to answer any other questions. Everything cost us about $700 originally and after selling (I kept some stuff) our final cost was just under $200.

I think it depends on how much you want. I think I was quoted $30-45/ centerpieces ×10. A cardbox, a small curtain and one tablecloth was going to be over $1000. I decided I didn't care about the curtain as much I'm using the cardboard the venue has and I bought the table runners plus a nicer table cloth for head table and it was $150 instead. The venue does provide plain linen for free where I am. I also spent $15/ centerpiece and I have the option of selling it again once I'm done. I bought my centerpieces from marketplace. I found all my candy jar containers on marketplace for super cheap as well and I'll use it for decor plus my cupcake display with add a bit ( though the bakery will be setting that up for me) It really depends on how much work you want to do, how much time you have to look or make things, how many people can help you and what you want everything to look like. I'm happy enough for things to be pretty I don't need over the top. If you keep things to your capabilities and make sure you have your timing ok you can save quite a bit of money. The stress just isn't worth it for some people.