creative thinking - getting help - personal touches - beating the budget - planning tips

JENN WARE AND AARON APPS
AUGUST 15, 1999
MOUNT VERNON, WA

How do you organize a one-of-a-kind wedding without breaking the bank? According to this couple, using your own time and talent to create the day of your dreams is more than a cost-cutting step. Besides saving big on the usual wedding planning expenses, Jenn and Aaron say that the satisfaction that came with bringing their own ideas to life was priceless.

Inventive Ideas
With enough creative energy to give Martha you-know-who a run for her money, Jenn and Aaron planned on making their wedding day as personal as possible from the start. Even the wedding date was significant. It was the same day that Jenn's grandparents were married, 52 years before. Filling their wedding with special touches like this was very important to them both. "We really wanted our wedding to be unique and to reflect who we are, how much we love each other and how excited we were to be getting married," says Jenn. "Besides, traditional planners don't even offer a wedding like the one we wanted!"