7 Surprising Ways to Save Money on Your Dream Wedding

When I dreamed about my wedding day as a young woman, I pictured hours holed up in a Starbucks somewhere, latte after latte consumed as I pored through my wedding-specific binder full of detailed plans. I pictured my new husband whisking me off to a tropical honeymoon, a day of love captured forever for our future children to see. I pictured a wedding that would make the hundreds of hours of watching "A Wedding Story" on TLC with my college roommate completely worthwhile. What I didn't exactly picture was planning a wedding for 500 people. In less than two months. During my senior year of college. While pregnant. But as the saying goes, such is life. Or maybe that's not really a saying, but it should be. Because boy, did I get a fast lesson into what true love and marriage are really about, and it's definitely not a day or a binder full of seating charts. With some help from the people that loved us most, my soon-to-be husband and I were able to pull off the wedding of our dreams, complete with more roses than I could count and not one, but two chocolate fountains. To pull off such a huge wedding in such little time with the budget of two college students, we did have to get a little creative in the ways we saved money. Click through for 7 surprising ways to save money on your dream wedding! -By Chaunie Brusie

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