Just Curious .. The Cost of a Wedding?

Question

I am planning on getting married, I want to get married at a park/resort type of deal, but I am a detailed person... Those of you that are married.. How much did your wedding cost and where did you do it....

Answer 1

Details, the more you want the more it will cost, but you can get around the cost by doing alot of the details yourself. Get your attendants family etc together one day with all of your supplys and make the flower corsages, center piece, etc. use both silk flowers & real flowers, get them on sale when they are 50% off at Hobby Lobby, keep all receipts in case you do not use it so that you can take it back for a refund, get a picture of your cake you want, and take it to the local bakery Wal Mart, Homeland etc, they can do it for a lot less than a designer bakery, it is cheaper to buy the material of your wedding dress and pay to have a local seamstress to make it than to buy one, use alot of tull, ribbon, rope lighting and greenry around the stage flooring and banisters, it makes for a very romantic setting vs candles, have a few candles but they are very costly, you ocan even get a archway and drape tull, greenary & rope lights and this is beautiful, make your center pieces with the bubbleswtih ribbon, birdseed or rice, etc vs candles or flowers, you might sprinkle confitte & flower peddles as well if you serve food, use finger foods, such as rolls, thinly sliced meats, veggies & fruits vs a meal meal. Set you food table up with a table cloth or skirting first, then place items so that you owill have different levels for you food to set on. but first after you set these bowls out for the food to set on cover it with another talbe cloth, then come back with a silafaine type colored paper, cruch it up and put it inbetween the bowls along with greenary and some more rope lighting, put disable cameras at every other table for your guest to take pictures of the blessed event. There is so much you can do with just the things you have around your house you can use, or even your friends house to make your special day special and help cutt the cost of your wedding. Even your church usally has items that can be used, ask friends for their left over items to use or rent at your wedding. I did my duaghters wedding for $5,000 and it was just beautiful, but very simple and plenty of romance. Good luck and remeber it takes time to put a wedding together, but do not make a career of it. 3 to 6 months is plenty of time for a wedding and if it does not go as planed you will be the only one who knows it, so set back and take a breath put it together and make it happen. A good thing to have in the dressing rooms is bottal water, snacks, static guard, and a lint roller. If you know somebody who has mirrows this is a beautiful setting for the cake to set on. You can rent these items as well, but cheaper to remove it from the wall at somebodys house. Open the mind of imigination and put it on paper and go with it.

Answer 2

Yes, I am married. YOU determine the price of your wedding. A park is usually free. Can you make your own flowers? Or maybe have a friend who could? Call around and price things, just like buying a car. Go online and find people who may be selling her wedding dress--she only had it on for a couple of hours. The less people you have in your wedding the cheaper. Meaning less dresses and tuxes. Have other friends or family serve at the wedding--the food, put someone over the gifts logging in as you open them and so forth. Good luck and have fun.

Answer 3

Mine was around 2k. 50 people. The reception was a grassy area next to the church. Church and priest was no charge. The food was $750. My friend made my dress and so just cost for fabric. There is a great fabric store with silk at $4 per yard. We bought my husbands and stepsons shirts and pants from Russia. That was another $300. Wedding crowns $250. Adds up fast.

Answer 4

It depends on how many people you invite and whether or not there's a meal served. Even at a park/resort, you need to pay the official performing the ceremony.
My wedding was "over the top", but fortunately money was no object.

Answer 5

$9500-that incorporates the marriage, rings and honeymoon. the marriage by way of itself replaced into $6500. right that's some theory of what I spent on issues: Decorations: paper lanterns, an arbor, etc-$one thousand My gown: $950 truffles: 4 tier groom's cake, 4 tier bride's cake-$3 hundred entire flora: orchids, roses and calla lilies-$250 for 5 bouquets, corsages etc. photos: $3 hundred for approximately 1200 photos! music: a buddy performed the piano, and we offered a CD for the reception, which value approximately $15. We had no exterior distributors. each thing replaced into achieved by way of acquaintances, that's why we've been able to have our dream wedding ceremony for thus little money! Plus, we did no longer have a band, alcohol, limo etc, which additionally helped plenty! EDIT: I forgot to assert what twelve months it replaced into. It replaced into September 2007 in Texas. We had 500 travelers.

Answer 6

I am getting married June 2008 at my Grandmother's historic home in PA. We are going to try to keep it all (ceremony, reception, honeymoon) under $15-20,000. I am also a detailed person, but I found that if you go to craft stores and get stuff on sale, read a lot of wedding books (from library for free!), and watch martha stewart videos on creative ways to do neat little detail oriented things with paper, ribbon, candles, and other crafts...you can have that extra special/unique wedding for a reasonable price.

Answer 7

A little over $25K....and we skimped out a lot! With lots of regrets. Our wedding was at a banquet facility in NJ (where we live) and was your typical stuffy traditional wedding. It was a lot of fun, but there was nothing unique about it.

I have a friend who got married in a park, it was really beautiful. She thought she was going to spend less than I did, but when you factor in the cost of the lights, chair, tent & table rentals, it's almost the same price.

Answer 8

we were togather for many years before we finally got married 17 to be exact now with 2 kids a home to pay for a cat and a dog we finally decided we better do it we spent little doing most of it ourselves and spent under 3,000.00 most of the cost going to her dress and cake !lol

Answer 9

My wedding cost $75,000
we had it near the water
we paid $200/pp

Answer 10

Got married in my hometown church, reception for around 200. Cost about 15K