The cost

Yes! We are paying for everything ourselves and lucky we have most of the big things taken care of such as dress,venue, photographer, DJ, and invitations, but it's the little things that are adding up quick! My wedding isn't until November but I am still freaking out about the cost. I still have so much to take care of.

H-e-double hockey 🏒 sticks no!
I’m frugal as all get out and opted for a courthouse wedding. $75 for license, $25 for ceremony. No stress no drama and wedded = priceless.

Constantly. It is the most stressful part of planning for me! Going into it I had no idea how much everything costs, it's crazy! But, we somehow are making it work! Started planning in November, wedding is in October, and we have about half paid (5,000 out of 10,000) and both my mom and his have offered to chip in some to help us get there. It's super stressful but it'll all be worth it!

OMG YES!!!!! Its stressing me out..I know what I want and I guess what I think is simple maybe isnt
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Always! You’re not alone! We’ve stayed in budget and still it’s stressing us out. I’ve lost much sleep over it. The good part about it is it’s made us realize how great we work as a team and how we handle the stress together. I picked the right guy!!! Also, the extra we spent for our honeymoon means there’s time to chill and relax once it’s all over. It’ll all be worth it in the end.

Yes, I'm so uncomfortable with how much everything costs.

And my PIL & mom are helping us, but it's so stressful just thinking about how much they're contributing. I don't even know how to sound grateful for their help because I don't want them to have to spend any money on us.

I feel like $20k (still below the national average) is so much money just for one day. I originally wanted to elope, but I feel like everyone really wants it.

Normally I would say "Absolutely!" I mean, I get anxiety over costs of things even outside of the wedding. But with wedding planning, I actually didn't have any stress over it at all. We were super realistic with our budget, and refused to go over on ANY item unless we came in under budget on another. In the end we came in significantly under our total budget, which was awesome. Being so aware and inflexible when it came to the budget helped me to lower my normal money anxieties.

View Quoted Comment Same here. So i found a park. They require a $50 deposit. & this park will give u the money back after its cleaned up... So basically the wedding spot is gonna be free... Im in Newnan, Ga.30263. Its Greenville Street park on Greenville St..

You are not alone.

A little stressed, yeah. I am a student, moving after wedding and also planning this at the same time. Stress atm is mostly surrounding photographers.. we are going to a really small place where we know no one and all the photographers want thousands of dollars for nonsense packages we don't want/need. The hotels on the islands are overpriced too (like 5x the price of luxury accomodations elsewhere). At this point we will just bring my prof camera and tripod. . I think it will be all fine but yeah the cost of the entire thing is stressing us out.

Regularly. Thankfully my mom and dad have been amazing about chipping in as much as needed. I told them we wanted to pay for some of it ourselves, but my mom has basically been like, "we want you to have the day you want" within reason of course. We've been really thrifty and doing a lot of sales and yard sale stuff. She's been hugely helpful in me keeping perspective and not freaking out!

WOW!!!! So many replies about being stressed. That’s sad, especially when this phase should be joyous. But some couples bring it upon themselves. They should only have a wedding they can comfortably afford instead of a budget-busting event that they’re stressing over. FH and I only set a $20k budget ($15k with $5k of wiggle room, if needed). That’s it! If our plans don’t fit into that amount, it’s getting nixed. We refuse to stress and spend too much on a 5 hour event and have debt afterwards. I’ve probably said this in reply to multiple WW posts, but it’s true.... Weddings and wedding planning is only as hard as you make it.

I am exhaustingly drained from the numbers! With what we are going to pay for the wedding can be a good amount for a house down payment. I just keep saying to myself “its going to be worth it”

Of course! We are paying for everything ourselves as well. We also just bought a house last year but we prioritized the house first than the wedding. Would rather have the savings go to the down payment than blow it on a day of partying. It's also a good thing that we are pretty good savers (I think) and are able to build up our savings to cover the wedding. And yes our engagement will be a little longer.

Yes and no. I was realistic from the start that a 10k wedding in my area was going to mean giving up basically any kind of detail (flowers, dj, video ect) but also my fiance is finishing his education and seeing all the bills at once definitely causes stress. But it only happens once, we won't be in debt over it, so I'll survive.

Oh yeah, but the first thing we did was make a hard and soft budget. Shoot for the soft budget and stop at the hard budget. We've done a really good job at staying within the soft budget but it hasn't come without stressful moments. We lucked out with our venue because it includes a lot of stuff that we won't have to pay for outside of the venue cost.

Everyday! Focus on 1-5 “must-have’s” and then go from there.. there’s definitely a lot of ways to save on other “less important” items.

Yes... I'm feeling this hard today as I'm assessing photography options. Everything is just so much more expensive than you realize...

You definately aren't alone! We chose a wedding over a house and even renting a home we may have to wait to move for a few months. Its stresses me out because I live with my parents with fh and we want to have our own place being husband and wife -.-

My wedding is considered inexpensive by bridal standards, and I still concerned about budgeting especially with such a large family plus children as guests. I have to prep to keep everyone entertained under 12 which is more money!!!