Wedding Cost Poll

Here is mine...

Overall Cost: $8-10k counting week stay in resort and flights

State: St Thomas

Number of Guest Invited: 32

Length of Reception: 3 hours

Alcohol: Yes - Open Bar

Overall Cost: we're sitting around 60k. Excluding resort rooms, plane tickets, bridal dress, all that goes with that, honeymoon and activities during our week long wedding. We are having a disney world wedding. And invited all our guests to join us for the week, especially both families to join together and do things together.

State: disney world orlando fl

Number of Guest: 47

Length of Reception: 5 hours not including ceremony, fireworks dessert party, or grown up after party

Alcohol: open bar for reception and dessert party. 7 hour total.

Overall Cost: $75,000

State: Los Angeles

Number of Guest: 250

Length of Reception: 6

Alcohol: Yes (approximately $3,000)

Overall Cost: $30K

State: CA

Number of Guest: 185

Length of Reception: 5 Hours

Alcohol: Open Bar 1st hour, the rest of the night is free Beer and Wine only

Overall Cost: 15k budget

State: Kentucky

Number of Guests: 200

Length of Reception: 4 hours

Alcohol: beer and wine only

Overall Cost: $10,000

State: Ceremony and luncheon in Massachusetts; at-home reception in DC.

Number of Guests: 13 for ceremony and luncheon; 60 for at-home reception.

Length of Reception: Luncheon 2.5 hours; at-home reception 5 hours.

Alcohol: At the luncheon, we served wine plus a champagne toast, and told the restaurant we would cover any other alcohol guests ordered. At the at-home reception, we had an open bar.

Overall Cost: 80-90k

State: California

Number of Guest: 200

Length of Reception: 6 hrs

Alcohol: Open Bar

Overall Cost: $30,000 (It may be a little over but def not over $35,0000)

State: Califormia

Number of Guest Invited: 117

Length of Reception: 6 Hours

Venue: Twin Oaks Garden Estate

Alcohol: Open Bar all night

Overall Cost: $25,000 including wedding rings, excluding honeymoon and e-ring

Location: Victoria, Canada

Number of Guest Invited: 138 (expecting about 100)

Length of Reception: 7 Hours including cocktail hour

Venue: Golf Club - ceremony outside on the lawn, reception in the banquet hall

Alcohol: Open bar including beer, wine, and liquor

Above post is in Canadian dollars but it is similar to USD

Overall cost: a little under 20k

State: Nebraska

Number of guests: 125-130

Alcohol: yes, beer and wine, cash bar for liquor

Over all cost with honeymoon 30k

State Pennsylvania

Guests 170

Reception including cocktail hour 6hrs

Alcohol yes full open bar.

7K

120 people (95 adults 25 kids)

5- 12pm

Open bar

Indiana

Overall Cost: $15,500 (I don't believe a dress should go under the wedding budget but it cost $1,667 alterations are unknown, the second dress cost $289, and for both dresses there are custom skirts made to attach to them at certain moments and price for both together is around $1,00)

State: GA

Number of Guest: 100-120

Length of Reception: 5-7

Alcohol: Yes, brought in by us.

Overall Cost: 42,00

State: Pennsylvania

Number of Guest: 150

Length of Reception: 5 hours

Alcohol: yes, open bar

Overall Cost: $25,000

State: Florida

Number of Guest: 225

Length of Reception: 5 hours

Alcohol: beer and wine and signature cocktail

Cost: 20k

State: Maryland

Number of Guest: 105

Length of Reception: 5hrs

Alcohol: yes

Overall Cost: $20,000 is the budget and we're teetering around that amount; including rings, excluding honeymoon and e-ring

State: New Jersey

Number of Guest Invited: 125

Length of Reception: 5 hours

Venue: banquet hall

Alcohol: Open premium bar beginning at cocktail hour

Overall Cost: Budgeted $3,500 (honeymoon not included...his parents are paying for that)

State: IL

Number of Guest: ~160 invited

Length of Reception: 6 hours

Alcohol: Beer provided - cash bar otherwise

Cost: I honestly do not know, I stopped keeping track at $65K. I would have to say about $70K, not including rings or HM

State: Destination Wedding in Key West, FL

Number of Guests: 90

Length of Reception: 4.5 Hours

Venue: A pier on the water of a hotel

Alcohol: We would have had WW3 on our hands if we didn't have alcohol - yes, we had a crap-ton AND we went to the bar every night we were there.