She tells me thats about average for a "good" wedding, from the floral arrangements to the event cordination, each was averaging 3500. I was told not to be surprised if it runs more than 60 grand!!! HOW MUCH WAS YOUR WEDDING?
2007-03-03 06:42:04 · 22 answers · asked by chaseki 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Thanks everybody for your input!
2007-03-03 06:50:31 · update #1
I think what she is spending is normal...especially if it's held at a hotel...
2007-03-04 01:27:22 · answer #1 · answered by Gosh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wedding wasn't even $5,000 and we had a very nice wedding. If you're spending $50,000 on a wedding either you've got too much money or not enough brains.
Do you realize what 50K could do to get a young couple started in life? That is a half of a first home (1/3-1/4 of a second home), a great start to a retirement fund, or college to a good school for the first born child.
2007-03-03 06:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by penhead72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am getting married in 4 weeks and I didn't/haven't/wouldn't spend that much on my wedding. The most expensive thing we are paying for is our food, which will cost $2275.00 and thats with 125 guests. Our floral arrangements are only costing us about $315.00. Your sister has expensive taste...or didn't shop around. I didn't have an event coordinator...I had the help of my mom and stepmom. Quite frankly...we needed to keep a tight budget, because we paid for everything ourselves, but a nice wedding can run as cheap as 5 grand...or less. It doesn't need to be something you are paying on for the rest of your life.
2007-03-03 07:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't laugh, because its true, but in 1965 my wedding cost $4500 and that is total..everything. It was held in a beautiful wedding hall, sit down dinner, with a 4 pc. live band. 150 people. We had beautiful flowers, at church and on each table in the wedding hall and bouquets, corsages, boutinieers for the men. Also 2 limos. But your sister is right, because weddings today cost a fortune. Especially on the eastcoast of the U.S. like New York, Connecticut, New Jersey. But frankly it has gotten out of hand and weddings can be done a little less expensive if everyone shopped around a bit more and cut a few corners. But that is a special day for brides and they spare no expense.
2007-03-03 10:43:43 · answer #4 · answered by cardgirl2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our wedding was: FREE
Photographer: FREE
Cake: FREE
Videographer: FREE
Flowers: FREE
Honeymoon breakfast in bed: FREE
We got married at Breezes Club at Turks and Caicos. It was just the two of us. On the beach. Very romantic. I found a deal on the internet and the whole seven day "wedding-moon" was about $4000. (all meals, drinks included)
It honestly makes me go crazy when people spend so much on a wedding. I have a theory that the more you spend on the wedding, the shorter the marriage will be.
2007-03-03 07:44:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wedding is probably going to end up costing about $15,000 by the time I am done!!!! There will be 300 people, an ungodly amount of food, a photobooth....Oh and we don't have to pay anything at all for the ceremony except the officiants fee!!!! So its pretty much just for the reception except for the obvious things like my dress, the photographer, the limo ETC.
2007-03-03 06:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by Soon2BMrsCarlson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously someone who thinks a "good" wedding is judged by a 50,000 dollar price tag isn't invested in the real reason for a wedding - the marriage!!! I'd much rather get married by a JP and be in love and happy for the rest of my life. I guess the more the wedding costs, the more the divorce will cost! :P
2007-03-03 07:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by hoosieraa2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have done a lot of weddings ... the national average is about 25k, for now, but is growing steadily. If you are in large cities, that price is probably going to be much higher. I have done them for as little as 15k to as much as 100k+ so it really depends on the couple. I'm sure your sister's wedding is going to be beautiful!!!
2007-03-03 12:23:28 · answer #8 · answered by VAWeddingSpecialist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know something? On my sister's wedding day (and her wedding cost about 60 grand) I e-mailed my then-girlfriend and said, "Promise me, if we ever get to this point, that we will not do this. I'm overwhelmed and my entire job is to escort my mother to her seat."
Our wedding, to be held in Las Vegas, is going to cost less than $2000. We're also going to renew our vows in September (for the friends/family who can't make it to Vegas) and I expect that to cost less than $5000.
Now, granted, we're getting a lot of help (a friend is making the cake for cost, another is doing the wedding dress for no charge, pictures done by a friend who is a professional photographer who is giving us a sizable discount as his wedding gift ...) but no, it doesn't have to cost so much.
As for my sister: she admits, in retrospect, she spent way, way, WAY too much money, especially for something that's over in six hours.
2007-03-03 06:48:28 · answer #9 · answered by JohnD 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No the average for a wedding is around 30,000 which is about what mine will cost. over 50 grand is not unusual but it is over the average.
2007-03-03 09:35:40 · answer #10 · answered by Educated 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my wedding was about $3000...50 grand could be used as a really nice payment on a house. I would rather have that than a huge, flashy wedding that only she and her husband will really ever remember. is she nuts?
2007-03-03 06:58:41 · answer #11 · answered by Jenn ♥Cadence Jade's mum♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋