Budget

My first wedding in 1997 cost my parents about $22k. Got divorced after 20 years.

This time around, I’ve budgeted $10k but I’m fairly certain I’ll come in under $7500.

View Quoted Comment I'm a Michigan Bride too (Northern Lower Pen). A barn wedding sounds so cool.

12,000 is our budget

View Quoted Comment I’m in CT too, after realizing a night time wedding wouldn’t be possible for less than 20k for us, we decided to do a daytime brunch/lunch wedding which cut our budget in half we’re hoping to stay around 10k not including our rings and honeymoon. But nothing has been booked yet and the CT sales tax has already increased since this original plan, so no idea what the final cost will be.

My budget is about $16,000 - $17,000. Try to set a budget that is the most comfortable to you and your fh and take it from there.

Our budget is 10k(not including honeymoon, who even knows what we’re doing there lol), but I’m still trying to find every way to cut corners we can. We’re getting married in south jersey at an Arts and Music center where we’ve worked as camp counselors/instructors for the last few summers, and are very good friends with the year round staff who are our point people for the wedding—they worked with our budget, gave us great offers and helped us save a good amount of money. Our parents are also helping us pay for about 2.5k total, and my uncle has very kindly offered to pay for our DJ as our wedding gift.

Other than saving in our venue; we’re designing and printing out invite ourselves, we’ve found a delicious restaurant that sells catering trays serving 40-50 people and the most expensive one is around $200(we’re inviting around 180 people, his mom wouldn’t budge on removing people and around here pp catering is usually $50 a head, so we weren’t doing that lol), I’m ordering from FiftyFlowers and doing them myself with family, I’m also lucky enough to have family who do hair and make up for a living and giving me discounted rates, and one of my bridesmaids has even offered to help do everyone’s hair and make up.

I basically just put out feelers and saw who could help with what, or people just offered. My whole wedding is very DIY so I’m hoping the final cost is much lower than 10k. Everything is turning out to be kind of a “it takes a village” kind of vibe and I feel like it’s going to make a lot of fun memories.

Our wedding is going to come out around $13k-$14k for around 200 guests. We're getting married in a very small town in Alabama. We live in Nashville, and a wedding here would've been double-triple that cost. Our parents are paying for everything.

We are budgeting about 20k and inviting 200 guests

View Quoted Comment I love this idea. It is so fun and unique! I'm sure it will be a blast!

Budgeted 15k but ended up around 16.2k

I've been in a wedding that cost 3k, and a wedding that cost 20k. We went to a wedding last year that cost over 100k. You can really spend any amount you want, it just depends on what you can afford and are willing to spend.

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Same. It's a bit tricky to do. However, we have much appreciated help, and get a really good venue as well for an AMAZING price. Trying to not spend much money on attire. Not that important to us. The food was the hardest to source for a good pricey, but we are able to make it work!!

I live in new england near Cape Cod so I couldn't find anything for under 10,000 for 110-120 people. I'm around 15,000 now including my dress..but planned for a year ahead so I have time to slowly pay vendors and save as i go.

View Quoted Comment So it's now 24k or 240k?

View Quoted Comment I want to hear more if this so unique

We're living by the cheapest possible idea, but not compromising on things we want. It's probably going to be around $10K when it's all said and done, but we will see. We are still 6 mo out and many vendors are not paid for yet.

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This right here is solid advice. I set our budget at $5000, including my dress since we already have the rings. Not going to happen I don't think. However, that will only be due to my refusing to budge on DJ and Photography. I could careless about my flowers or makeup and my bridesmaids are refusing to let me pay for anything for them so I think I will be fairly close to $6200.

Definitely check the vendors and go with the average of 3-5 of them and that will give you a fairly accurate baseline for budget.

We are spending less than $12K. Started off wanting to do it for $5K, but the venues I wanted were at minimum $2500 without food or anything.

10k including rings and dress!

Our budget is 15,000. We honestly didn’t know where to set it at first either.