was it considered cheap or expensive for where you live?
My wedding will be just a little over $7,000. This is expensive in my hometown but it's CHEAP for where we live now!
I know theres alot of different opinions out there...where someone in California could have a wedding for 10,000 dollars where it would be cheap there but expensive in ohio or west virginia or someplace like that..
No offense to anyone in wva, ohio or california, im from ohio and was born in wv!
2007-12-31 05:54:42 · 19 answers · asked by ? 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Being formerly from WV myself growing up in the Ohio Valley, I think you still did fairly well only spending $7000. My wife and I (which just got married less than a year ago), we decided to do a destination wedding with a group of 22 family and friends. It was an awesome time. Most of our money though was put into pictures. Total on our wedding was probably around $5k, and $3k of it was spent in special albums and pictures. I think you did a great job if your budget came in under $10k. After I told the cost to friends and family in WV of our wedding, they were shocked that we budgeted so well, however prior to seeing our photos, they thought we spent too much there. Those photos where worth every penny. By the way, our destination wedding was in SC. Good luck on everything!
2007-12-31 07:50:56 · answer #1 · answered by chrisncisme 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
25k for us hosting 200 guests for a very traditional wedding, nothing fancy-dancy. For our area, pretty average.
2008-01-01 08:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For our Southern California wedding we spent just over $10,000. That's was for a casual style wedding with a lot of DIY. Our biggest expenses were the DJ and the photographer which took up half the budget. It turned out great though, I can't see how we could've had a better wedding even if we had spent more money.
2007-12-31 16:25:32 · answer #3 · answered by mysteryperson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ours will be just under $20K. However, we have a unique situation in that we're having one event in Austin, TX - where we live - and one event in India, where my fiance is from. (It's much easier for the two of us to go there than for his family to try to come here.) The $20K includes everything for the Austin wedding, plus our plane tickets to India and some of the costs of our reception there. We're spending about $14K for the Austin wedding and about $6K for the India reception.
The Austin wedding will have around 150 guests, so the $14K is actually a little below average for a wedding that size in Austin. We're getting married in February which is considered off-season for weddings, so everything is a little less expensive this time of year. Austin is not expensive compared to cities in the Northeast or California, but it's definitely more expensive than much of the rest of Texas. A $14,000 wedding would be considered very expensive in the small town I lived in as a kid.
We're only having a reception in India - not another ceremony - which is why we're only out $6,000. Also, the US dollar goes a lot further there than it does here. Another factor is that my fiance hasn't lived in India for the past 13 years, so the reception will be very small (still 200 guests!) by Indian standards.
2007-12-31 16:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by SE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tiney is right in chicago its about that much without honeymoon plans yet. Were spending 25k -30k
2007-12-31 15:51:19 · answer #5 · answered by HOPEFUL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wedding is in Mass. We are spending about 35K total...which I think is about average around here.
2007-12-31 15:40:05 · answer #6 · answered by just me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am also from Ohio, near Akron in a very small town called Atwater. My family who still live there have all stayed under $5,000.
My wedding will be either in Florida or Alabama (my fiance and I live in Key West and his parents live in Alabama). So far the cost of the reception halls we are interested in both exceed $30,000. His step mother has offered to pay for most of our wedding, we're hoping to keep it under $50,000, and hoping that it stays under that. However his step mother (who is extremely wealthy) has been very persistant on us having the best of everything. ALTHOUGH, I'd be perfectly happy with a small ceremony on the beach...
2007-12-31 15:28:22 · answer #7 · answered by Meggie Smalls 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in CA and I recently read somewhere that the average wedding here is about $20,000 now.
My brother's (also in CA) was about $8,000 but there was a lot of DIY!
I am embarrassed to admit mine will be about $55,000 which is out-of-the-question expensive for my family and where I grew up but on the low end for his family who are from the middle east (and they are paying).
2007-12-31 15:11:19 · answer #8 · answered by iheartbayley 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well we're having 220 people and it's running us about $15,000 but that includes--Limo (5 hrs), Decorator, Candy Buffet, Favors, 3-Meat Meal & pizza, Videographer, Photographer, Cake, Open top shelf bar package, Ice Sculpture, Rehearsal...so everything...I'm sure everyone will think we paid wayyyyy more...which is a good thing...lol!
I'm a budget gal and you know I made alot of things myself for the Wedding. :) I believe the average is around $20,000-25,000 where I live for that many people.
2007-12-31 14:59:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm from WV and mine was less than $5K. We had the reception catered by my family with food from Sams, and hired a family friend to serve, got invitations that you print yourself, and I got my dress from David's on huge sale. We got a family friend that is professional photographer, not wedding photographer, and he gave us the photos and his work as the gift. If you want to have a budget wedding, people don't have to know. Ours was classy and inexpensive, and we even had a band at the reception.
2007-12-31 14:55:55 · answer #10 · answered by #2 in the oven 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋