Budget! Let's talk

We are going over budget. Way, way over budget. Like, I don’t think we are even acknowledging a budget any more LOL

Before we postponed, we were looking to be a bit over our initial budget. But after we postponed, we made some changes to our wedding, and oddly enough, ended up right within our original budget! We had downsized our wedding for our new date, which helped us save a lot, though also added a videographer and day-of coordinator.

We went about 5k over budget and would have gone further over budget, but we had a decent amount of declines and opted out of getting a videographer.

My mom asked us early on what our budget was and my husband said we had none. However I had a number in mind and needless to say we exceeded it substantially.

Well, we're definitely over our preliminary budget, but after the initial blowing of the budget, I'd say it's leveled out quite well. I still try to operate within the category budgets, as much as possible, to stay accountable. We'll see. lol

We're I think about 3K under budget at the moment!!! I'm quite happy about it but also still have alterations so I know that number will go down some.

We’ve gone way, way over budget. I just don’t think I knew the price of things these days and didn’t quite guesstimate well at the beginning lol

Yes we definately went over budget 😩. When you create a budget it sounds good, but when you begin to put all the parts together of the wedding, that amount quickly changes😩

We went over budget by a few thousand dollars. Not too insane, and we were able to save enough in time to not have to put anything on credit cards. We were hoping to recoup some of it with gifts but we mostly just got cash and blew it all on our honeymoon!

We ended up about $16k over budget but it was totally worth it!

We didn't have a hard total budget at the beginning. More like an imaginary number. We had budgets for different vendors, for example $4000 for food and drink, $1500 for the dress, etc. We stuck well to the vendor budgets but didn't really have set budgets for things like decorations or favors and I felt like we ended up spending more than what we expected for the entire wedding.

I honestly didn’t have a budget but I think we did pretty good. But then I hear if other wedding expenses and I think we spent wayy to much. But at the same time we did a destination wedding and had flights and shipping fees and the house we rented for everyone to stay in. But we had a marvelous time and I would definitely do it over.

Way, way over lol

Ha ours doubled 🫠

I stayed on budget did a lot of my shopping on line and finding good deals on the stuff I wanted had a beautiful wedding

We were over budget by about $5000. Forgot to factor in tips!!

Do not do Milwaukee photo booth deals everything seems legit but then they don't show up n no refund I waisted money I thought because I looked it up on wedding wire it wasn't going to be a scam n it was

I was actually under budget. With my husband purchasing his outfit items individually instead of at one place we saved over $400 bucks on his and his groomsmen and bestman. We did somewhere local so we didn't have to rent a hotel room. Making all of the decorations and printing our invitations at home, saved us so much money. Overall we were under budget by almost $1000.

I was under budget by $600

I had a budget range in mind and ended up 17k under MAX budget partly due to declines during a Covid surge. My favorite part of planning was finding cash and budgeting. Least favorite: convincing my husband to keep in budget. Looking back, I could have spent more because we forewent optional parties, and used separate money for our honeymoon 6 months later.