Would you spend over $100,000 on a wedding of you dreams?

Question

I just watched a wedding show on TV where the bride and groom had a wedding costing $122,250..To that I say caramba !

Answer 1

Hell NO! That is just insane!! That's a big down payment on a future....which will hopefully be the rest of their lives! Why waste it on 1 day!

Answer 2

You can get married in the courthaouse for as little as the cost of a license (roughly $300 total where I am). I attended a wedding this weekend in the range of $250,000. So you generally work with what you have by creating a budget first and then figuring out what you can spend on what. Unless you want exactly what I am having, in the exact same venues and area, my budget is useless for you. But you asked... We've so far spent roughly ~$25k. We'll probably end up spending ~$30k in the end. I am paying for everything for my BMs, their dresses, hair, makeup, jewelery, etc. We're having a church ceremony followed by a vintner's reception at a local winery for 170 people. We're doing tons of fresh flowers and a lot of handmade accents. We're having a DJ and hired an amazing photographer. We've got the typical limo. Our dinner is a formal sit-down five-course French style meal preceeded by hot and cold plated and butlered h'ors d'ouveres. Plenty of options on the menu and the dessert is a Viennese sweets table (our cake will be boxed for the guests to take home). We're doing larger favors than normal in that we're giving a wine and cheese basket to each couple that includes a bottle of personalized wine from the winery, a selection of artisan cheese and some gourmet chocolates accented by a set of handblown glass grapes for decoration (we have snacks and drink baskets for the non-drinkers/underaged as well). Our wedding will create a very luxurious atmosphere for our guests which is what we are aiming for. Good luck!

Answer 3

Yes I would!
But only if it included buying the property on which i held the wedding. Preferably this property would have a large land area and is palatial.
No way would I spend it on just a wedding. Really, food and flowers can't cost that much, they must have gone for the most expensive on everything.

Answer 4

what a waste of money. I would have taken it and invested it long term. So many of those " Platinum Weddings" end in complete disasters. I keep in mind a person in Jamaica who had a $6.2 million JA wedding, food flowin by helicopter into Central JA, only to find his wife in bed with another man 6 months later. I would have said, buy a long term investment like a house or secure stocks and bonds before I do something like that. My friends know that if I ever say I would spend that kind of money on a 1 day event, they can slap me because I must have absolutely lost it.

Answer 5

Heck no there's a lot of things I can do with that money: travel, put a nice down payment on a house, etc. I agree that that is a huge amount to spend on one day. I think $10,000-$15,000 is probably sufficient to have a nice wedding. Then put the rest away.

Answer 6

No way would I ever drop that much money on a wedding. I'd rather get married like I am, at the courthouse and a reception dinner after, and use the money to invest in something we need or a fun vacation or save the money for something else.

Answer 7

Nope...had the wedding of my dreams last year when I married for the second time.....simple court house ceremony with a party at my sister's afterwards....I made the salads, orderd the meat/cheese, relish & condiment platters, my second daughter made my wedding cake...three tiered carrot & cream cheese cake decorated with calla lillies....friends brought the booze....all for about one grand....122,250......whad are they, NUTS!????? Use it to buy a house outright without having the mortage hanging over ya!

Answer 8

I watch that show on VH1 and I can't afford what some of those couples do. If I had $100,000+, I'd pay off my mortgage.

Answer 9

Yes, if we could afford to have such an extravagent wedding then heck ya! This is one day that you will remember for the rest of your life and hopefully your only wedding day if things work out! So why not go all out if you can afford it :)

Answer 10

That's a whole lot of money. I can't even figure out HOW you would spend that much. Even with the fanciest of things it's incromprehensible to me that it could add up to that much.