Other budget tricks: send electronic save-the-dates, shop sample sales for dresses, have the wedding on a nontraditional day, offer a signature cocktail instead of an open bar, and cut a small cake during the ceremony.
The owners were excited to see 20 people pile into their tiny shop sampling different coffee blends and pastries.
Their sound is a collision of candy-striped melodies, charity-shop samples, old-school hip-hop and squalling guitars.
However, during the sampling period all the yams in the shops sampled were from Ghana.
(The Jis are adept at shopping sample sales and snapping up floor models).
"Most commonly, brides who are trying to save money are still going to wedding dress shops but buying ex-shop sample dresses at big reductions, often around 70% of the retail price.
Billed as "chat with a female slant" the topics veer towards the superficial, mainly men, kids, diets and shopping (sample question: do you get jealous when a friend loses weight?) But then daytime TV is not known for its innovative formats.
Getting Started The key to shopping sample sales is to keep an open mind, advises Ella Goldin, founder and president of Chic Inspiration, a personal shopping consulting firm based out of New York City.
Now, she shops sample sales, warehouse sales, and second hand stores to stock stylish inventory.
Descendants of the Halsey family, who began farming the Water Mill area in the 17th century, run the Milk Pail on Route 27, where you can shop in the country store, sample cider and doughnuts, and pick apples grown on their farm overlooking Mecox Bay.
