A blogger has revealed how she planned her entire wedding day for £500 by making the cake herself and sewing a skirt to wear at the ceremony.
Rosie Scott, 29, who lives in London, said trying to pull off the celebration became a 'bit of a challenge' to see how cheap she and husband Aaron Piper could do it.
The crafty bride managed to keep costs to a minimum by watching tutorial videos online to learn how to bake the cake and buying decorations in charity shops.
She even asked her parents to bring back cheap wine for the big day after a holiday to France and used a staff discount to buy a floral dress to wear at her reception.
Rosie Scott, 29, spent less than £500 on her wedding to Aaron Piper, pictured together, by not wearing a traditional dress and making her own decorations such as paper flowers
The crafty bride, pictured with husband Aaron, also saved on her cake and only spent £40 as she asked her sister to make it and watched tutorial videos to learn how to do a three-tier cake
It was recently revealed that the average wedding in the UK now costs £30,355 with happy couples often shelling out around £523 on the cake alone, according to Stork.
To try and help combat the high cost of having a wedding, the baking brand has launched a limited-edition DIY 'bake by numbers' cake kit for £49 on Amazon.
Included in the kit is everything needed to bake including all the ingredients, faux flowers for decoration and even a wooden spoon.
Rosie explained how she asked her sister to make a Victoria sponge cake with coloured icing flowers for her wedding celebration party on September 1 in 2013.
Rosie, pictured centre with two friends, used her staff discount to get a pretty floral dress for the day at a bargain price of £20
Rosie and her sister placed colourful roses at the base of each tier on the cake, pictured, to hide any imperfections. She said that everyone 'loved' how 'pretty' the cake turned out to be
She said: 'I asked my sister because she's great at baking, but she'd never made a multi-tiered cake so we watched tutorial videos together to work out how to do it.
'We decided to just put colourful roses around the base of each tier - they hid any imperfections and were also a super simple way to make a big visual impact.
Registry office ceremony: £130
Village Hall hire: £100
Cake: £40
Food: £50
Dress: £20
Decorations: £20
Crockery from charity shops: £30
Fabric for skirt I wore at the official ceremony: £30
TOTAL: £420
'The roses were made just with icing and food colouring then each petal was pressed out with a finger and thumb.
'Nothing fancy needed at all! Everyone loved how colourful and pretty the cake was and they couldn't believe my sister had made it herself.'
Rosie also made all the decorations for the wedding party, held a couple of weeks after her official ceremony on August 16, herself.
She said: 'I made loads of paper pom poms to decorate the hall with and lots
