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"Some guests REALLY don&amp;#x27;t need the free champagne! There are some things that are so present at every wedding, it&amp;#x27;s easy to forget that we don&amp;#x27;t NEED, say, a garter toss to make our marriage official. Here are three nonessentials you can easily ditch to create a little wiggle room in your wedding budget. CHAIR DECORATIONS I&amp;#x27;ve been to 70-something weddings in my day, and I can&amp;#x27;t tell you what the bride was wearing at most&amp;amp;#8212;never mind what the chairs were wearing. I can tell you that I&amp;#x27;ve never thought, post-wedding, &amp;quot;The ceremony would have been beautiful if the chairs had a few more flowers&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Those giant chair bows really MADE the reception, right?&amp;quot; A CHAMPAGNE TOAST People who want to drink champagne {like me! } can order it at the bar. There&amp;#x27;s no need to give every guest a glass of bubbly when at least half of them won&amp;#x27;t touch it. Let your guests toast your marriage with whatever&amp;#x27;s on the table, whether it&amp;#x27;s water, whiskey, or Diet Coke. (The champagne doesn&amp;#x27;t guarantee the marriage will last longer, I promise!) DINNER MENUS If your guests selected their entree on the RSVP card, there&amp;#x27;s no need to remind them that the chicken&amp;#x27;s on the way. And letting them know that there&amp;#x27;s a salad course or that the side dish is green beans isn&amp;#x27;t going to affect, well, anything. Even if your guests get to pick their meal at the reception, I&amp;#x27;m confident that your waitstaff will be capable of asking, &amp;quot;Stuffed salmon or filet of beef?&amp;quot; If you&amp;#x27;re worried your wedding won&amp;#x27;t be legit without a dinner menu, leave one oversize menu on an easel by the dining area instead of printing one for every place setting. What do you consider &amp;quot;nonessentials&amp;quot; at a wedding? Are you ditching anything traditional? We skipped the wedding cake, which my mother-in-law considered sacrilegious. Thankfully, our marriage doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be any worse off because of that. Photo: Courtesy of Universal Studios Entertainment."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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