How much did everyone budget for their wedding?

About $25k. I’ve been creating my budget based on how much services cost on average in my area and based on what we’ve already booked.

Currently, we have a budget of 40k.

I think it's going to be much lower, though, possibly under 30k, for several reasons:

I budgeted 2500 for the venue, but the website says 2100 for the rental, plus it says there is special pricing for "micro weddings" of less than 50 people (which ours will be). It doesn't say anything about what that special pricing will be, and I'm not quite ready to be asking, but I imagine it will be less than 2100.

I estimated $150/per person for food and $2500 total for bar service, but we're having a daytime wedding, going the signature drinks route, so I imagine the bar tab will definitely be lower. I also suspect the food won't cost that much, but I wanted to be prepared.

I have a pretty high number for flowers, and I actually know the florist, who has already said they will only charge me for the flowers and any items that they don't get back (like centerpiece vases.) I do plan to give them a nice monetary thank you gift, so I'm keeping the high budget number to account for that.

My budget WAS 25k now im at 56k it will probably go up even more because my wedding was moved due to covid. Smh 🤦‍♀️

View Quoted Comment I am in a very similar situation. We never set a hard budget and we were not planning to spend this amount, but this is where we’ve ended up. We are so excited to have our dream wedding this June.

Im thinking 10-15k All inclusive but some of these vendors are beautiful and above that. Just getting started. Let the researching begin!

We are aiming for 4-5K... backyard wedding for about 75 guests, we have professional musicians and photographers in the family, no bridal party. We are spending around $6000 on landscaping the yard though.

$25-30k is most likely where we will end up. Initial budget was $35k, but through some selective choices, we’ve lowered the costs.

Mine is 12k and we are going pretty good staying with that budget

I am at about 8 K for the venue which is all inclusive..then add 2k for DJ and 1500 for photos. I did DIY boquets and centerpieces.. add all.my DIY decor and my total is about 12K ..my budget was 10 lol not too bad

We initially started off with a 12k budget and as we were looking at prices for everything quickly realized we couldn't do the wedding we wanted at that price. We set a new budget of 20k, when all is said and done it will probably be $18,500

Hi there,


This is always an interesting topic SO many different ranges of numbers. My fiancé and I are planning a wedding of 80 people. Our venue only holds 80 guests so honestly that helped tremendously, it actually turned out to be such a great number for our budget, any more people would be really put a strain on our budget. It couldn’t have worked any more perfectly. We are paying everything with cash so we knew our budget rather quickly. NO way were we going to start out our marriage with debt from our wedding. Our budget is 10k-12k. Our venue includes basically EVERYTHING at a reasonable cost-compared to other venues we felt 10k-12k was in our means and absolutely reasonable. Our venue is in the upstairs ballroom of a beautifully renovated historical tavern. We couldn’t be any more ecstatic for our day. At the end of the day it’s whatever works for you and your finance. Good luck to you!!!💕

Mine is going to be around $6k. That includes the venue (affordable), photographer, florist, my outfit, caterer, cake and desserts, and decorations.

When we first started planning we wanted to stay under $8k. But my Fiance and I have received a very generous amount from our parents (this was not expected) so we are around $14k all in now.

View Quoted Comment How many guests are you planning for?

We are planning to not go over $10K. And includes everything (food, dress, all inclusive venue, alcohol, rings, cake, tux) for a 100 person wedding. Honeymoon is not included but, I’m hoping that’ll get paid by our gifts/honeymoon fund.

We spent 26k but included every single thing from flatware to my wedding dress, venue, rentals etc

I came into planning thinking we would spend around $10k but now our budget is about $23k after wedding venue, floral, photographer, dj, catering, and such for about 100 people.

My budget is 25k-30k

Our budget is $32K, which is just below average for my state. Our parents are paying for the bulk of the wedding and were willing to pay more to be able to invite additional friends and family (I'd be okay with a 80 person wedding but were inviting 115 people). Full open bar all night was non-negotiable for us and good food is really important to us, so those factors certainly affected the budget/cost.

We are trying to stay under 17k including the dress. I will say it’s been tricky