We are on a tight budget and don't really have money to decorate the room....

Hi Eleanor we are have the same predicament as you. I haven't given a thought on how to decorate either :)

I had a tight budget, i opted for the following:
chair sashes (but no cover)
old whiskey bottles with the cheapest flowers for the guest book signing area and to decorate round the seating plan
cheap paper tablecloths in matching colour scheme for the cake table from wilkcos.
fake petals on the tables round my small centerpieces to make them look bigger
top table/sweetheart table I bought a little sign off ebay and got some material for a special tablecloth in a super sparkley fabric
seating plan was just a canvas, some pegs and card which was under a tenner in total. If you wanna see pictures let me know :D

Lots of fairy lights (not coloured) looks really romantic, my friend had them and filled space looked great. You can get them from ebay

Try places like B&m, home bargains,pound world. They have some lovely stuff in like hanging hearts and banners all for really cheap prices and they look lovely

Make your own bunting. Cheap bits of fabric and a bit or elastic or rope. I got some pompoms of ebay for about £1,50 each. Balloons are can get a helium tank for about £20 from argos.

Collect twigs and spray paint them in your colour scheme, stick in jam jars with matching ribbon on the lid thread. Origami is lovely, and homemade too.

What's your colour scheme?

Balloons with some cheap white tulle over the top xx

Tonnes of candles - super cheap and effective x

I bought little wooden hearts from eBay and sprayed painted them silver, then strung them up with ribbon. I also bought balloons and some helium - much cheaper to do it yourself. Xx

Jam/glass jars are brilliant, can be decorated cheap enough to match your theme and colour scheme. Then filled with sprayed twigs, tealights or something else you fancy they look quite effective, especially grouped in different sizes

I only had balloons and a balloon arch. Cost £85 and it was awesome. 3 per table and the room looked full of decor. :)

I bought lots off ebay 2nd hand. Plan to sell it on again after.

I bought my chair covers off eBay I got 100 for £50 also got the chair sashes from there. I am making bunting both fabric and paper heart shaped. I bought fairy lights in the January sale. I bought my table clothes off a lady who was selling them and I am making my pom poms for ceiling. Again I have bought balloons from ebay. I would say to look on ebay for wedding decoration joblots as many brides sell of all there items as a joblot instead of separately

I'm using wine bottles and wooden roses that are one ebay really cheap with some mirror plates and skeleton leaves to scatter around the tables

Have these as your center pieces.... it's £1.50 for the paper lantern lamp shade.. you can buy a pack of led candles from Poundland and possibly make a paper flower (large one for the top of it) also you could get the tissue paper from Poundland x

I paid £30 for 100 chair sashes on Wish. Brilliant quality and will add a little colour to the room. Get crafty and make as much as you can yourself, such as centre pieces. Myself and my sister are going to make a cupcake tower instead of a wedding cake. Always check with the venue as to what they may have spare to borrow. Our venue is letting us use their fairy lights and wooden table decorations.

Ask guests to make decorations in your chosen colours, they love it when they feel involved and you will have decor from people who love you

Old wine bottles and vases filled with flowers very cheap and easy and will brighten any room! Scatter crystals etc also very very cheap, if you know anyone handy with a sewing machine make some bunting, likewise get the family to raid the Christmas decks and borrow all the fairy lights! table runners are so cheap on eBay too, just a few small things make such a difference

Oh and carboot sales I've bought quite a bit from them.

We bought cheap frames and printed off pictures ourselves. Used bottles we had recycled and fortunately had some guys at work cut us some logs up. We bought little battery lights off ebay for about £10 for 12 tables. It looked beautiful and even better on the evening. Be thrifty! It looks so much better

We're making lots of our decorations ourselves. We're having a book theme so a lot of ours will be made from book pages (I didn't want to take any books out of circulation so spoke to a local charity shop and made small donation (£5) for some books they were going to throw away anyway).
I bought a glue gun from Amazon (£9) and looked up some 'how to' guides on Google (Free) You could use a kind of paper that fits better with your theme. Here's one of the decorations that will be hung from the ceiling/light fittings at our venue.

If you order a bouquet of balloons for each table it adds something to the room and it's not too expensive either x

my mum made all our stuff this is how she turn a village hall into a nice reception for us :) she decorated it with white sheets,made the table decs etc x

F

You can make bunting and tissue paper pompoms quite cheaply. Also have a look on any Facebook wedding sale sites and eBay

We had home made bunting, centre pieces etc don't have a pic of the fully decorated but the centre's are easy to make . Alot of the stuff we got from ebay including the flower girl and bridesmaid dresses. Xxxx

Pinterest have many ideas. Best way is planning first on colour scheme, layout of the room. Then add your creations.

My advice is look on Pinterest. I ended up overwhelmed by ideas huni. xXx

Home bargains do a box of 24 fishbowls, led battery tealights and Scatter crystals that you could make centerpieces from they also do bunting, table confetti, wedding bubbles that can be used as favors and all really cheap prices x

bed sheets as table cloths, jars for tea lights/flowers (buy from the supermarket, homemade bunting using curtain fabric from charity shops or off cuts

F

These were my centrepieces, just recycled jars which I glittered and laced then the top table I had loads of different sized candles which looked really effective!! I hired the log slices from my florist for £2 each! xx

You can make loads, tea lights in old jars is a cheap one and looks lovely, just scrub the lables off and tie some twine around it ... Inexpensive and looks lovely 👍 good luck X

To make the room look more interesting, you could ask some family and friends to dig out Christmas decorations for some fairy lights!

Balloons are a great way to fill the space! Bunting can be roughly made and still look 👌

Or big pieces of fabric that you can hang from the ceiling somehow? Can be cheap stuff from a market but will look effective! xx

Use Pinterest there are lots of ideas on making things. That's what me and the H2B are doing. Makes it more special.

Have a look on Pinterest at diy wedding decorations on a budget loads lovely ideas ❤️

I've got latins for £2 in ikea and 40 candles for £1.60

Poundland do punch bowls which you can fill and put foam roses and lights in.

Home made bunting? X

Lee Furgusson

I got a stack of Pom poms off amazon - some were £1.60 for a pack of 8, dirt cheap

Tbh.. no one really cares about decorations. Ive never been to a friends wedding and walked into the reception and gone 'this is decorated beautifully' or 'oh they have no decorations' im having none at my wedding. As long as the bar is there and open i'm not bothered x

Have a look in Home Bargains. They do a lot of things in there that aren't too expensive and even have a wedding section.

Bunting!

Get family and friends to save jars for you to decorate. Buy tealights and flowers from supermarket to place in them x

Buy ends of fabric from any craft shop also Amazon has baloons paper lanterns ext really cheap x

This is what we did to decorate the room, as we had a low budget. We painted tins to make into candle holders with hearts punched in, decorated polystyrene balls with cut out flowers and put them on sticks in tins, put stones in the bottom of fish bowls and little led floating candles in the top.

Carla Feltham

Loads off balloons will transform it and a cheap way

Photos and banners? Like the flag ones in your colour scheme x ebay would be a good start ...got loads for my 40th alice in wonderland theme for about £100 x

We used balloons for the church and reception - was £250 for a company to supply and set up. Could probably be done cheaper if you did DIY

Make Ebay your friend and grab bargains when you can xx

Laura Grace Davies some more ideas...

I recycled glass jars and bottles, the twine was £1 for 25 metres and the ribbon and little gems were 1.99 for 100. Probably cost 25p to make in total. Fresh flowers look nice but fake/silk would look lovely too and they are slightly cheaper. I have also bought small picture frames that were on sale to use for table numbers. I would take a look on pinterest there are loads of cheap DIY ideas on there