Make Cheap Costumes for Halloween Parties

Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas for Married Couples

Sep 4, 2009 Genna Cockerham

It is easy for married couples to make cheap costumes for Halloween parties with these homemade Halloween costume ideas for him and for her.

Invited to a Halloween or costume party and not sure what to wear? Married couples can use clothing and accessories they have on hand to make cheap costumes. Stand out in the crowd with these homemade Halloween costume ideas.

Adult Halloween Costume Ideas

Dressing as a bride and groom is an easy and cheap costume for married couples. This costume idea has some flexibility as the couple can go as a bride and groom, bride and groom zombies or a bride and groom from a different era. For a simple bride and groom costume, he wears his best suit and tie or a tuxedo. She can wear a white dress, carry a bouquet, and make or purchase a veil. The more they look like the stereotypical couple on top of a cake, the better.

For a bride and groom zombie couple or newlyweds from a different era, search thrift stores for discounted wedding dresses and polyester suits. Add face paint to look dead for the zombie costumes and distress clothing for a risen-from-the-dead look. Buy Halloween wigs and add sticks and leaves to hair for authenticity. Match baby blue suits with wide lapels for him with antebellum wedding dresses for her for a wedding picture out of the 1980s.

Add Halloween Props for a Cheap Idea

Dressing as Miss America with a nerd or geek is another way to use clothes that are on hand to create adult couples’ costumes. For this homemade Halloween costume, she wears any very fancy or formal dress. Add Halloween props like a crystal tiara, costume jewelry and a satin sash that reads, “Miss Texas” or another state.

Her husband dresses up like a nerd. For his costume, start with short pants, athletic socks, a button-up plaid shirt and a mismatched bowtie and blazer. Add Halloween props like tortoise-shell glasses, buck teeth or a calculator. He escorts Miss America for the night and walks around grinning and winking.

Halloween Skeleton Costumes for Couples

Halloween skeleton costumes are easy Halloween costumes to make. Find or make a template for a set of skeleton bones. Trace the bones onto pieces of white felt and attach to black sweatpants or leggings and black hooded sweatshirts. Each partner paints his or her face to look like a skull. Use no-sew fabric glue to affix the felt to the clothing or sew on for a more durable costume.

Cheap Costumes for an Adult Couple

Dressing in togas is a popular last-minute costume idea for Halloween. Married couples can use this idea to go as Romans with laurels on their heads or adapt this idea to go to costume parties dressed as gods. For example, he can be Zeus by wearing a toga and carrying a lightening bolt cut from cardboard and wrapped in aluminum foil. She can dress as Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, by wearing a toga and giving out Hershey kisses all evening.

Another last-minute Halloween costume is to go as a person and his or her shadow. In this case one partner wears last year’s Halloween costume. His or her partner dresses in all black with black face paint and mimics the other person’s movements and poses all night. Standing behind the other person is only required when someone is trying to guess the couple's costume.

The best homemade Halloween costumes for married couples use accessories or clothing that the couples already have on hand. Adding Halloween props and wigs enhances the costume without adding a lot of cost to the costume. Adult couples' costume ideas include a bride and groom, Miss America and nerd, Halloween skeletons, Greek or Roman gods and a person and his or her shadow.

For more Halloween ideas, read Fall Craft Makes a Candy Corn Decoration.

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