{"id":1371,"date":"2015-08-20T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/blog\/\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:04:05","slug":"save-wedding-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/blog\/save-wedding-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Save On Your Wedding With Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest day of your life is supposed to be like something out of a fairytale, but what they don\u2019t tell you in fairytales is the cost of a wedding.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really REALLY expensive, probably not as much as the recent wedding of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/australias-best-wedding-but-what-did-it-cost-20150817-gj0lxv.html\">Salim Mehajer<\/a>, which gathered a plethora of media attention for requiring police assistance, estimating to cost at least $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>But for us regular folk, a <strong>wedding costs on average $36,200 <\/strong>according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneysmart.gov.au\/managing-your-money\/budgeting\/simple-ways-to-save-money\/how-much-can-a-wedding-cost#text\">ASIC<\/a> and apparently in major cities such as Sydney, a more realistic average that couples should be considering is $70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the high cost of weddings couples tend to put off buying a house, face scrupulous budgeting impacting on their social life or even moving back in with family to save every cent.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst there are some costs that can&#8217;t budge, such as venue locations, there are lower cost alternatives to the traditional wedding suppliers for photography and flowers etc. <strong>Airtasker has seen a steady rise<\/strong> in the number of wedding tasks and we&#8217;ve been able to compare traditional wedding supplier prices with tasks completed on Airtasker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wedding-Savings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airtasker.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wedding-Savings.png\" alt=\"Wedding Savings\" width=\"702\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/24065419\/Wedding-Savings.png 702w, https:\/\/airtasker-seo-wordpress-blog-assets-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/24065419\/Wedding-Savings-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what about those extra special personalised touches? 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