$3500 Budget

I'm only expecting maybe 75 including the bridal party. And no I'm not a troll it's really me. I havn't given out the url for my website to anyone but my planner because it's not complete. I'm still waiting for my fiance's contribution.

A 350. wedding planner is either a rank beginner or terrible at what they do. I'm looking under the bridge and GUESS WHAT!!! I see a troll!!!

Visually... here's what a $35,000 will get you for 75 people

Visually... here's what $3,500 will get you for 75 people

HAHAHAHAHHA Kimi, you crack me up.

All I can say is wow... & Kimi LMAO!!!!!!!

I interviewed planners, and the cheapest one I found that was even close to reputable was $1200. I can't believe that a planner that's any good would even consider working for $350.

There are ways to save money, but you can't get the look of a $35,000 event for $3500. Heck, $3500 barely covers a photographer and a DJ, not to mention a location or food.

I did a midday Saturday wedding (without dancing, so no DJ), saving every where I could. I price shopped, got an inexpensive dress, used coupons, and got deals left and right. I only had 27 guests, and I still spent over $3500 in one of the cheapest cities to host weddings in the country.

I'm not trying to be mean, but you've got to be realistic in your expectations. Something is going to have to give. You're going to have to cut corners, and with a planner- you may not be the one making the decision where those corners are cut.

Lol I'd take the buffet food over whatever is on that dish at the $35k wedding.

Haha it's a salad in a cucumber bowl ;o)

Funny, there is no 'Glorious Events' listed as a business in MI...

Kimi- I was trying to figure it out! I was like...is that some kind of salad with super long carrot strings? Hm...cucumbers are cheap and lettuce is cheap. I bet you can do that yourself! It might not look as good, but hey!

I fell in love with lettuce wedge salads from Longhorn! I wonder if my venue can do that.

BTW-That's a huge effing cucumber!

Miss Tattoo the lettuce wedge salads drive me crazy lol, it seems like I have to do way more work to eat!

I think it's super cute that Glorious Events signed the guest book for her family...never heard of a wedding planner going that far. Troll troll troll troll :p

Why give someone $350 to coordinate your wedding - family members are doing work for you - what is SHE doing for you!! WASTE WASTE WASTE!!!!!! And Glorious Events signed her own guest book!! LMAO!! That sounds like an AWESUM coordinator!

My wedding planner is just starting out and she costs me 1200 dollars, and her DOC is like 500...I don't believe that your wedding planner is willing to work for only 10% of your wedding budget, even the wedding planners I talked to that worked that way it was only 20% of a wedding over like 45,000 dollars, which I can understand because at that price 4800 is just too cheap to plan such a luxurious wedding.... I say toll like most the other girls here...

On another note, if you really are a real bride like you say you are, I also agree with the brides that say you need to be realistic with your budget, when I first started planning I had it in my head I wanted a 10K wedding, but at this point in time I'd be happy to come out under 4 to 5k for the wedding, which includes my wedding planner in the budget.

Glenn, as I've told you SEVERAL times before I'm not using my school loans on the wedding, and we are getting an apartment and jobs in Anchorage...and she's 1200 dollars if I do her "full service" package so get over yourself and leave me the heck alone already...

I like it when people suggest being realistic, and then in the same post state that they're spending 25% of their budget on a planner. LOL

Exactly Analy, anyone who has a limited budget and wants to be realistic won't even think about hiring a planner.

@Briana. Did you GET jobs yet or are you still thinking about it? I lived in Anchorage and it seems to me that you could have capitalized on the tourist season that is now coming to an abrupt end.

Fins we are using our dividends to GET us to Anchorage being we do not have a way to get up there for interviews so we will get a place to live (which our dividends will pay for at least 4 months of rent and such) and be getting jobs after we get up there, we were never just "thinking" of getting jobs, we were actually planning on getting jobs, we just need to get up there first because it's pretty much impossible to get a job if you can't go to the interview. I know the tourist season is over, but the job market in Anchorage is still very vast(from looking on craigslist), and last time I was up there almost everywhere we went there was a help wanted sign up, I feel that it will not be hard to find jobs once we get up there.