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You can find out if there is another wedding ceremony before or after yours and you may contact another bride to see if she wants to participate in decorating the site. Use help of your family members to help decorating. Buy flowers from wholesaler, especially if the flowers are in season. Often out-of-season flowers are harder to find and are more expensive. Use pew bows for both ceremony and reception decorations. Decorate every other or 3rd pew or aisle chair, or alternate between bows and swag of ribbon. Reserve first few rows for immediate family by placing bows only on those pews. Get big bows for altar decorations, it's much cheaper than flower arrangements. Put your reception table centerpieces on columns at the church and move them to the reception. The altar arrangements can be placed on the head table at the reception. Alternate big and small bows at the pews. Do not use aisle runner, just have your flower girl sprinkle the petals as she walks down the aisle. Use less fresh flowers. Mix in silk flowers here and there.