judasmachine
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Geezuz you guys are freaking nuts. My wedding cost a total of $1500, of that I paid like $500. The honeymoon though that's another story.
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
If we could have afforded it we would have spent more, the biggest disappointment was in not getting professional pictures and relying on friends. I also think a honeymoon would have been nice. However, I did the best I could to have a decent day with the budget we had to work with.
Originally posted by: Dobbs
I think it was something like this,
Round trip plane rides to Vegas for two: $75.00
Marriage license cost at City Hall: $55.00
Little White Wedding Chapel drive through wedding: $100.00
First pull on a random dollar slot machine out of boredom while new wife in using the restroom +$1200.00
Telling your friends you were married in Vegas at a drive through wedding by a guy that looked like a 70's pimp, and probably was in the 70's : Priceless
Originally posted by: piasabird
$0
Weddings are for vane people.
Justice of peace works great.
Originally posted by: J0hnny
Well, the wife-to-be is kinda of setting the budget:
Location fee: $7500
Catering fee for 150 guests: $24000
Open Bar fee: $5000
Floral Designer: $8000
DJ/Lighting: $2000
Officiant: $500
Photography+Bridal Makeup Package: $5000
Limo: $500
Vera Wang Dress: $4000
Tux Rental for Groom and groomsmen: $600
Wedding Planner: $4500
Total of $61,100
Our wedding is in Manhattan. Yes, this is ludacris but it's the bride's day, not mine.
Originally posted by: mugs
~$20k
$10k reception (location + food)
$500 wedding location
$1k her dress
$3k photographer
$1-2k florist
$1k band for reception
$1-2k - various miscellaneous items - my tux, the wedding rings (not her engagement ring), pastor's honorarium, rehearsal dinner, etc, etc.
We saved a lot of money on the honeymoon because we didn't have to pay for lodging or a rental car, so that was $2000 for a week and a half in Maui
Edit: Her parents paid for pretty much everything
If you want to save a lot of money, obviously don't get an expensive caterer, have a friend with a decent camera take pictures, do the flowers yourself, use an iPod instead of a band, etc, etc)
Edit: Oh, our wedding was awesome. Great day, beautiful location, and we have awesome pictures to remember it with.
Originally posted by: J0hnny
Originally posted by: J0hnny
Well, the wife-to-be is kinda of setting the budget:
Location fee: $7500
Catering fee for 150 guests: $24000
Open Bar fee: $5000
Floral Designer: $8000
DJ/Lighting: $2000
Officiant: $500
Photography+Bridal Makeup Package: $5000
Limo: $500
Vera Wang Dress: $4000
Tux Rental for Groom and groomsmen: $600
Total of $57,100
Our wedding is in Manhattan. Yes, this is ludacris but it's the bride's day, not mine.
oh yeh, and the trip to Tahiti will be another $3000
Originally posted by: eakers
What was your wedding like?
About how much did you spend on your wedding?
Were you happy with it?
Do you wish you had spent more or less?
Spending $10,000 seems like its way too much to me and apparently, most weddings cost a lot more than that . Why spend 10k on a mediocore wedding when I could have an amazing vacation or a small car with the same amount of money?!
Originally posted by: LolaWiz
How only 3k for tahiti?? All the places we looked it was mostly double that. Is that including air too?
Originally posted by: erub
Originally posted by: acemcmac
I'll be fvcking damned if more than 5-10k is going to be spent on any wedding on my behalf :|
I can think of a thousand events in my life that I'd consider to be more important than a wedding involving me. Weddings have evolved into self important, egotistical, meniacal dick measuring contests of which I'd want no part of.
Don't even get me started on baby showers, wedding showers, housewarming parties, etc.
Quite simply, you are wrong, read this article about nonreligious arguments for getting married
most importantly, read this:
Fourth, to better appreciate just how important marriage is to the vast majority of people in your life, consider this: There is no event, no occasion, no moment in your life when so many of the people who matter to you will convene in one place as they will at your wedding. Not the birth of any of your children, not any milestone birthday you may celebrate, not your child's bar-mitzvah or confirmation. The only other time so many of those you care about and who care about you will gather in one place is at your funeral. But by then, unless you die young, nearly all those you love who are older than you will have already died.
So this is it. Your wedding will be the greatest gathering of loved ones in your life. There is a reason. It is the biggest moment of your life. No such event will ever happen if you do not have a wedding.
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