Here’s what Huffington Weddings has to say about Wedding Freebies:
“While the idea of getting a super-pricy wedding element for free sounds fabulous, some wedding freebies are to be avoided at all costs: unwise ‘cheap-outs’ usually turn into wedding disasters.
Like Uncle Charlie, who promised to shoot your wedding video for nothing, then didn’t get any footage of your First Dance because he was outside talking on his cell.
Or Aunt Sally’s homemade wedding cake that melted and crashed to the ballroom floor because she didn’t know to put supports inside it.
Or Grandma slaving over a hot stove during your cocktail party, a sweaty mess with burns on her hands…and still not churning out pigs in blankets fast enough for your crowd.
With the average wedding cost soaring over $20,000 these days, every bride out there is looking for ways to save on her wedding budget, while still having the perfect dream day.
And, scarily, there are some brides out there who go way too far with the price-cutting, inviting catastrophes with the ultra-regrettable theory “If it’s free, it’s for me.”
But free is a dangerous game when it comes to your wedding.
There are just some things you should never try to get for a big, fat $0 in your wedding budget spreadsheet.
Because the adage is true: you really do get what you pay for.
And it gets worse: some freebies with $0 attached lead to huge expenses when you have to undo the disaster, if not utter heartbreak when your day is ruined.”