Whats your budget breakdown?

We are still getting a few things, and making final payments as we are 28 days out! Ours is in Buffalo, NY, and guest list is 130 (not an exact count as rsvps are still coming in)

Venue/catering: 11,000 (includes tables, chairs, room rental fee, 2 passed apps and a station for cocktail hour, 4 hr open bar, and 3 course meal, and late night snack)

Ceremony venue: 525 (includes set up and break down, and rehearsal, venue is naturally pretty so no cost for decorations)

Officiant: 250 (includes rehearsal)

Photography: 3500 ( engagement photos, rights to photos on online drive, 10nhours day of coverage, 2 photographers, and a 10 by 10, 45 page album)

DJ: 1400

Dress: 712

Alterations: 75 (only adding some beading, its tea length so no hems)

Suit/Tux: 35 (only had to pay rental fee since we had over 6 in the party renting, the other guys paid 130 for suit which includes pants, jacket, shirt, tie, shoes, pocket square, vest, cufflinks.)

Flowers: 150 (did sola wood flowers and arranged them myself)

Cardbox/signage/misc ribbons: 75

Handfasting cords: 30 (made our own, just bought the ribbon off amazon)

Shoes: 55 (2 pairs, heels for ceremony, and flats for reception)

Hair/makeup: 65 (only paying for hair. My SIL is a makeup artist and doing the makeup for the wedding and is not charging me as part of a gift, otherwise its 130 for both)

Food day of: 130 (lunch for girls and guys while getting ready)

Bridal party gifts: 300 (for 11 people, we bought like it was their bday, ordered off Amazon etc)

Cake: 400 (maybe less after counts are in, we did cupcakes and a small cutting cake)

Rings: 1000 (mine was 900, his is probably going to be around 100)

Invitations: 160

Hotel Suite: 250 (first night is 50 for the suite and we paid for the night before)

Total as of now: 20, 112. Hoping to stay under 22k. Which we think is doable. Our parents are helping us with the reception cost and photography cost as wedding gifts.

We’re working with $15,000 for a destination wedding in Park City Utah, everything is nearly paid for an we’re coming in at just about $1,000 over. Intimate 30 invited and 25 confirmed. Everything includes taxes, additional fees, delivery and pickup, set up and design fees. So they are total prices. And we did decide to budget flights and hotel into the cost of the wedding budget. I’m a planner and have this all itemized in a spreadsheet 🤣🤣

Venue (all day) 500
Catering & Open Bar 5200
Florist 700
all attire (tux, dress, lingerie) with alterations and accessories 1100
Videographer 850
DJ 995
cakes (2) and dessert (whoopie pies) 390
Jewish ceremony items 200
Misc reception items 150
Wedding Party (4 total) and parents gifts 300
Decor rentals and all custom signs, photo booth, guest book 480
Rentals for catering and everything else 995
HMU, Spa, Tan, Sugaring 600
Flights (we also took a wedding planning week that’s budgeted in this) 580
Loft rental 250
Rabbi 1000
Gratuity 200
DOC 665
STDs, Invites and vendor thank you cards 300
Ketubah 475
Utah License 50
Grooms gift and experience 125

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My sister owns a catering business and is only asking me to pay for the ingredients of the dishes. I also only have 80 guests.

65 guests total:

Venue - $4500

Reception Decor - $200

Ceremony Decor - $35 (wine box)

Catering - included in venue cost

Photography - $1000 for wedding, $175 for engagement

Flowers - $240 (bouquets, boutonnieres, petals, flower crowns, flower girl baskets, cake topper)

Favors - $100

Cake - included in venue cost

Dress - $700

Shoes - $60-80 (haven't bought these yet)

Grooms suit - $200

Bridesmaids Dresses - $150

DJ - included in venue cost

Invitations - $370 (includes Save the Dates and programs)

Officiant - $90

HMU - none, doing my own

Total: $7740 (will probably be closer to $8000 by the end of it)

I don't know exact numbers yet, but

the venue was 275 with a 200 deposi

dress was 299, but haven't had alterations yet

food will be about 463

tux will be about 135

buying my MOH's dress for about 50

flowers will be about 75

still deciding on decor

DJ will be 400 if we can come up with the money

Nashville, TN wedding, around 75 guests

Ceremony venue - 800

Officiant & other ceremony fees - 800

Reception venue - 500 (with food & drink minimum met, includes suite for bride & groom)

Catering & Alcohol - ~3,000 to 4,000, depending on final guest count (2,500 minimum)

Flowers - 1,179

DJ - 850

HMUA - 800 (wedding party, moms)

Dress - 943

Photographer - 1,145 (8 hours)

Decor - 200

STD's - 200

Invitations - ~125

Cake - 640

Ours broke down like this:

Venue (ceremony and reception + decoratiosn tables and chairs) - $3200

Photographer ( full day coverage) - $1200

Catering (dinner and dessert) - $1450

Bar (includes mixers but we provided our own alcohol)- $510

Alcohol - $200

DJ (ceremony and reception)- $700

Transportation (to and from venue for guests) - $625

Flowers (I did sola flowers I made myself) - $150

Dress - $1900 after taxes

Shoes - >$25

HMUA - $170

Total: $9420

Additional expense we decided to cover:

Our Lodging for wedding party and their plus ones, we got a 9 bedroom cabin for a week. 3 day before wedding, day of wedding and 3 days after wedding this was a big expense we decided to take on but it was important to us and it was about $5700

Venue: $3500 (with adding an extra hour, dance floor, lighting package, and chair rentals)

Catering: $10,200

Photography: $2500

My Dress: $2900 (Before Alterations) Alterations TBD in the middle of them now

Shoes: $70

Jewelry: $100

Grooms tux was free with the amount of rentals we have

Wedding Bands: $1300 (BOGO through our jeweler)

Florist: $1100

Photo booth: $800

DJ: $1895 (unlimited time and uplighting)

Officiant: $150

Venue Décor: $800 (DIY centerpieces, signage (6 signs), guestbook, card box, favors, other venue décor)

STDs: $60

Invites/RSVPs: $100

Cake/Cupcakes: FREE (FMIL is making for us)

Honeymoon: $1600 (not including what we will spend while on honeymoon)

HMU: $200

Total: $27,275

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The Golf Club at South River in Annapolis, MD

Sure if you don’t mind the budget of a small wedding!

Venue : $250(discount, includes tables/chairs)
Food : $550(includes china)
Cake and dessert table : $250
Photography : $350(discount)
Decor : $300
Flowers : $120
Live band : $600
Attire for B&G : $1400
Invitations : $90
Hair/makeup : $200(includes mom’s look too)
Wedding accomodations : $300(our room and hotel for oot parents)

Venue - $3k (FMIL paid)

Reception Decor/Ceremony Decor - $200

Catering - $1700

Photography - $1k

Flowers- $900

Favors - $5

Cake - $200

Dress - $500

Shoes - $175

Grooms suit - $0 (He’s wearing his dress blues)

Bridesmaids Dresses - $200

His ring- $1k

DJ - $1k (FMIL paid)

Invitations - $200

Officiant - $0 (wedding gift)

HMU - $50 (I’m doing it myself)

Total: 10,000

Venue-$7500 (includes apps salad meal, open bar, ceremony fee, cake, uplighting, champagne toast, linens, drapes, I think I'm missing a few more)
DJ-$1700 (includes fog, uplighting, monograms, photobooth)
Videography/Photgraphy-$1890 (full day footage & 5 min video)
Florist-$1200 (centerpieces, corsages, bouquets, boutiners, halos, petals & flower baskets, and cake topper)
Officiant-$150
Ice sculpture- $372

Still working on the dress pricing and a decorator for a few smaller items (including save the dates & favors, servers, memory table decor, guestbook alternative station, etc.)

So I just have to say that I don't know where everyone lives but I am jealous of these prices.

I’m in a suburb of Philadelphia
Venue all inclusive and covers food, alcohol, cake, linens, chairs & centerpieces will be between $11,400 (minimum) or $24,000 if everyone invited attends (but we are anticipating about $15,000
ceremony fee: $1,000
Officiant: $500
DJ & Photo booth $1690
Decor: $500
Hotel shuttle service: $300
Invites: $487
Save the Date: $327
Postage: $310
Dress, veil, headband: $1300
Dress alterations: TBD
HMU: $980 (for me - all girls & travel)
Florist: &1000
Groom tux: $240 (really not fair that his cost is so much cheaper lol)
Photographer: $1500
Junior grooms party clothes: $250
My shoes: $80
Dance lessons: $1300

Seeing it in writing is making me a little sick.

Our breakdown is a little different since our venue is almost all-inclusive. FH and I are also paying for our attire on our own so it's not included in the overall budget.

Venue (DOC, catering, alcohol, photography, DJ, officiant) - $9500

Upgrade to Pasta Bar and Hors D'oeuvers - $1854

Upgrade to Photography Package (Engagement Photos) - $695

Upgrade to Photography Package (Wedding Day) - $1495

Cake - $700

Floral - $2410

Extras (Hotel for the night before/night of, limo for Bride & Groom, Save the dates w/ postage, Invitation Suites w/ postage, Favors, Cake Topper, Cake Cutting Set, Champagne Glasses, Reusable Starbucks cups for families, signs, seating cards, welcome bags) - $2870

So Far... Just under $20,000; excluding attire, honeymoon and wedding bands.