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What is your recpetion budget?
Overall budget, (not including rings and honeymoon)?
Well, it's hard to say...it keeps growing. :(
Our reception venue states we need to spend a minimum of 10k (that's only food and bar). All our reception vendors(DJ, pianist, flowers, cake) combined will add another 7-9k.
Photographer, chapel and dress--another 9k. Ohhh mannnn
our grand total is just over 17,000. I cannot believe we have saved that much in about a year! That includes everything, since our wedding is pseudo destination (3 hours away) that includes the gas we have spent driving up and back, the wine for the wine tasting party we had to choose the reception wines, our rings (not my e-ring) and the money I spent going down to San Fran with my Bridesmaids to shop for dresses.
I would say the reception minus photography and no apparel is 6-7 thousand depending on what you count. (food chairs building rental etc) Our honeymoon is not included because it was supposed to be a surprise for my FI!
We originally wanted to keep it at $10k-$12k. But we're fast approaching $15k. :(
I agree with Virginia, it's hard to say what the final budget will be but we are at $15k total for 60 guests. Reception is $8,200 of that - food, DJ, cake, decorations. I am hoping to not have it go over anymore, but I keep forgetting about things in the budget.
What is your budget Principessa and why do you ask?
We're having an intimate wedding, yet it will come in between 13-15k.
We really need to work on a final budget.
It's a big help with having an idea of budgets if the final number of guests is included.
overall i was thinking 25k...which i wasn't sure was going to be enough...but since i've been adding everything up, reception hall will be almost 10k and i can't imagine everything else costing another 15k. we'll see!
Principessa - totally get you on that one! Wish I had asked this same question about six months ago when I really started planning. . . . .
I've been using myweddingworkbook.com to manage our budget. It's a free tool and very helpful.
About 60% of our budget is for our venue and catering. But those aren't something we wanted to skimp on. We're saving on everything else (my dress, photography, music, etc.)
A little more than 6k for 120 guests that includes ceremony and reception venue, rehearsal dinner, dj, catering, decor, cake, tux, dress and photographer. I'm thrifty :)
We started with a budget of 15K...then realized it wasn't going to work, so we upped it to 20. We just re-evaluated last weekend, and it looks like the final budget will be 25-30K for 80 guests.
However, that's not DIY-ing anything. If I had more time, didn't live in NYC where there is no Michaels/Hobby Lobby, and didn't buy a dress that was quite a bit more than I anticipated, I would be doing better right now.
We are working with a budget of $5,000 (not including honeymoon which will be on our 1 yr anniversary and rings) I plan to stick to it also. I would hate to start our marriage with debt. Our house was a big purchase late last summer and would like to keep debt down so we will be paying cold hard cash rather then putting ANY wedding expenses on credit cards. In my opinion it doesn't matter how much money is spent but having your loved ones and friends there to take part in joining as one!!
Started at 25K but will prob be closer to 30K, for 150 guests. and this is with massive budgeting, these things are ex. pen. sive. i don't know how any of you girls quoting 20K, 15K, 10K or under are doing it! my dad wanted to give me the 25K all at once and then manage it myself but i said NO lol! it will so likely go over, which it is. this is not including honeymoon or rings of course, those are on us.
i just did myweddingbook.com and did estimates for the things i was unsure of...so far it's at 18k. there are many other things i could DIY and save on, so hopefully it will be under, but in the end, I'm sure there are many other things that we will not have accounted for.
that site helps a lot!
ours started at 35k but right now it's at 41k. who knows, i still have about 6 more months so it might grow even more!
This scares me. We were planning on 30K, but the idea of spending that much on one day freaks me out. I am a HUGE penny pincher. So I think we will be using most of the money to buy a house and then possibly get married at our new house... nice way to break it in. In reality nothign has been planned.. AT ALL. 
We are planning to do a small wedding.. we really tried to keep a tight budget.. but thats not happening just like with many of you. We wanted it to be round 12K.. but we are looking at 17K-20K.. Im so shocked at how expensive everything is.. but Im not DIYing at all.. i want everything thing done for me so I can pay and forget about it.. that why we are having less people but nice... I want to try the website that the girls recommand and do an esteemate.
Reception? $5k
Whole budget is $10k and will absolutely stay at or below that. My parents are being very generous and I would not want them to feel like they have to spend more. I want all of us to be happy with the decisions that are being made.
@dandelphia- Thanks for that website! Super helpful.
W/O rings and honeymoon= 25K for 120 guests. We've saved it all, put NOTHING on credit and paying for it all ourselves. We are professionals in our 30s so we are have the ability to spend what we want, but are being smart and setting a budget. Tax free deployment pay certainly helped!
We didn't know much about how much everything would cost so 25K was a swag. It will be interesting to find out how much is actually costs.
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$5K, but I think we ended up spending more like $7K at the end of the day.
$4,000 is a our bufget. And At present it looks like it will come in pretty close- althought I still have over a year left to go so we'll see. I guess it all depends on how many times I change my mind between now and April 2011!
We were hoping for $10K, but it's around $12K now..hopefully we can bring that down a little!
Ideally our budget was 20k, but once we accepted it was going over that, we're now shooting for 25k. We're inviting 400 guests, expecting around 320
Being such a large party we were able to haggle amazingly with our venue and feeding everyone a lovely meal plus premium open bar will be running under 50 per person including tax and tips.
Most paper products will be DIY including invitations, escort cards, and programs
w/o rings or honeymoon (not sure we're doing either) we're at $28.2K for 60 guests (+ 8 kids). We orginally budgeted for $28K, so if we can find a way to cut that extra couple hundred, we'll be right on budget. Our budget was based on what we could save each month multiplied by the number of months in our engagement ($2K x 14). Our situation is unique:
In order to afford that criteria, we're DIYing the STDs, invites, programs, website & my cousin (who is a stylist) is doing hair/makeup for me & my ladies (MOH, MOB, & MOG). Everything besides food, venue, & favors (dress, photography, flowers, decor) will average about $1.5K each. We're paying for everything EXCEPT the RD...both sets of parents are hosting one.
We are maxing it at $20k. I'd like to come in less, but that's what we've budgeted and I refuse to go over - something will get cut before that happens!
We're having 30 people attend the ceremony and an intimate dinner, followed by a cocktail reception for about 200. Hope that helps!
Our total is $10K, but I think it'll end up being more like $12K. We're having around 60 guests and doing a restaurant reception, we're hoping to just spend the minimum required, which is $3800 + tax and gratuity... so... about $5K, and we're not having a DJ, so the reception really should just cost $5K. *crosses fingers*
Ours is $18k. That is scary for me to type. We are having around 110 guests for dinner/dancing following the ceremony.
Around $35K for 175 people in Oklahoma City. This is the target budget...I still have over a year to plan!
The reception will be around $13K.
We're paying for a medium sized wedding + reception and it won't be more than $4000-$4,500. Its a Friday morning (dry) brunch and I have a bunch of friends who are helping me out... and it helps that we're doing it in rural PA! We're DIYing silk flowers for the bouquets and DIYing pinwheels for the centerpieces. Only 99 days away and I'm excited :)
Our overall budget is $13k but for just the reception I think it will run about $10k it's by far the most expensive.
Reception is $20K for 150 people, overall is just about pushing $50K, we started at $35K - and are paying for it all ourselves, ugh its scarrry!
Ours is 35k for 110 people. Without the rings and honeymoon. A year ago we had a budget of 25k, but have been able to save much more cash than we thought we could. My FI insists on paying in CASH, so we have been really good about eating out less, turning off lights, not buying new shoes, etc. for the last year and have been able to add some luxuries to our wedding because of it.
Open bar and photo booth - here we come!
We are just over 30K for 130 people. It keeps addng up though, so I am not sure how far over that we will go. I am guessing 35-40K. The venue was the most, but I LOVED it and have always dreamed of getting married in a historic theatre.
I have skimped too, though and cut alot of costs. Doing cupcakes instead of cake, we know the florist, I hired one of my photogs from work, etc...
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