Budget

For everything including dress and rings our final budget is 12k for 60 people (not including honeymoon). Paying for it ourselves. We live/are getting married in a pretty expensive area. I had to get creative and really dig to find budget friendly ideas/vendors/venue.

The budget started at $80k for 140 people including the honeymoon, but now has more than tripled. I guess we didn’t realize how much everything cost. Luckily our parents have been very generous. I just hope I don’t regret it haha!

Our budget was $5,000 (not including our rings). We did have $1,600 which was gifted to us so that helped build some cushion. After paying for everything FH and I paid about $4,800 of our own money.

$1,300 for 30 guests is what we’re going to spend. Our budget was $1,000 so we’re over a bit.

Our budget is $5000 not including the honeymoon for 125 people.so far we're only at about a third of our budget since we have amazingly talented friends and family who are donating their services to make our wedding perfect.

Our budget is 13-15k (minus my ring) for 135 guests, and we are Michigan.

$6000. Not including our rings. That did include:

-Ceremony Venue
-Reception Venue
-Caterer (130 people)
-DJ
-Photographer
-My dress, alterations, accessories, under the dress garments, & shoes
-My sons outfit (ring bearer)
-My FH tux
-chair rental for ceremony (at an outdoor location)
-Invites, RSVPS, stamps

And some other additional stuff I cant think of right now.

So many things to consider! I'm in AZ with a 75 ct guest list or so and am looking at 20k total counting honeymoon, dress, rings, etc! I have 5 bridesmaids and 5 grromsmen and the wedding is next year December. Just see how much you can save every month and thats your budget unless you don't want to spend that much, then use as much as you want from that number!

We paid about 10k for ours. Most of the money came from my taxes, and the rest we just went with what we could afford payment wise. We never set a budget.

I may be the odd one out on this.

We have no parents left left so we are footing the entire bill. The things we want are just not in the budget if we picked a venue so we are having it at our friends house. BUT....

we are throwing a surprise wedding. We host an Easter gathering every year so we are “hosting an Easter event” and he’s telling everyone he’s surprising me with a proposal. That way we know they will come and be a bit more dressed up.

I will escape the party to go to go get my hair and makeup done inside and do some photos with my girls. We will announce that everyone needs to take their seats to pray before we eat.... they will think they are getting ready to watch me be surprised at this point.

Someone will ask where I am... my son will say “she’s inside. Let me go grab her”. And when we come out... BOOM! The music begins and the wedding starts.

The best thing about this is it is it cuts our budget down to about $2k. We will be making all the food. We will have a dessert table in place of a traditional cake. My dress was $300 and his tailor fitted suit will be $150.

If we are able to save more before the wedding, we will add in things like a DJ, photographer, etc. I have a few people who do photos who are in on the secret so they will be helping out with some photos.

Your budget doesn’t have to be huge to have a beautiful wedding.

Im not sure where you are all from but im from CT. My budget was 25k but flexible. Our wedding is in 6 days we are capped at 30k and some change!

If you are paying for it you have to be comfortable spending it. We don’t necessarily have a budget. We are paying for almost everything ourselves. So we are paying for things as we go, not getting married until 10/2020. We are looking around $15-17k for a Sunday brunch wedding for 150 people. Not including our rings or honeymoon. We still need to finalize catering, dress alterations, flowers and music. We are really hoping not to go over $17k. My grandfather paid most of our photographer, my grandmother will be gifting us $500 and my FIL said he will help with the catering but did not give us a set amount.

We’re spending $5,000-$10,000 not including our rings or my dress. We’re trying to do as much diy as possible

We’re only allotting $20k for the ceremony and reception (60 guests). Doesn’t include our rings, attire or honeymoon.

Like other posters have mentioned I would check out vendors in your local area to get a better idea of general cost, that way you can put together a realistic budget.

So before sending out pricing requests & establishing a guest list I was thinking we would spend around $10-$15,000.

With everything said & done we will be spending $25,000 (not including my dress & accessories which is about $2,500). Also not including our honeymoon.

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80k or 8k??

Our budget is less that $1,500. I can’t wrap my head around spending several thousands of dollars on a wedding.

It is all boiling down to how much I can save in the two year span before my wedding.

The goal is to save $30,000 before my wedding date. I would like to keep my wedding under $25,000 but just in case anything arises I don't want to be stuck.

We have already booked our venue and photographer. The venue is a large chunk of the budget (we live in the Seattle area) and venues are expensive but we found a beautiful venue within our budget.

Think about how much you can reasonably live without each month, set a specific number and adhere to it every month. My partner and I made a joint bank account that we move money into each month. The venue makes automatic withdrawals each month now that we signed a contract. Think about taxes too! In Seattle taxes are 10%, so for venues, caterers and big ticket items like that, 10% tax adds up quickly.... so try to take that into consideration when planning.

Hope that helps ☺️

Our budget was $25k but when looking at venues, we felt it was important to have it on a Saturday because of a lot of people coming from out of town (more expensive on a Saturday and that we were going to keep the 250 guest list ( we both have very large families). Because we felt these were important, we’ve had to up the budget to $33k. We’ll have some family
helping but we will be responsible for more than half. Had we cut 50 people and did it on a different day, we’d be at least $13k less. Very big number but again we prioritized!

I think it’s very dependent on the type of wedding you want and where you are located. I live in Michigan, will be having a barn wedding with about 115 people. I’m total (including dress, food, bar, venue, DJ, florist, photographer, videographer, photo booth, dessert table, decor etc..) I spent about $17,500.