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Getting married at St. George Island, FL.
Total invited guests 80, total rsvp 55-60
Doing Wed-Saturday. Wedding on Friday so will have food at our beach house (Hub) for all meals each day if people choose to come over to eat. Food and alcohol budget including reception is $3000.
Doing flowers myself, budget $250, only having 3 in wedding party plus dads and officiant and moms.
Rentals $600 tables, chairs, benches for beach, table linen
Music (steel drums and DJ) $750
Bartender $300 plus tip
Dress, hair, nails, veil, shoes, etc for me $1000
Groom $250
Photography $1300
Cake $250
Welcome baskets, decorations, gifts, miscellaneous $1000-1500
House rental (hub of all activities for the whole week) $4500
So all in all we will spend around $12,000. Would have spent double that at least having the traditional in town wedding and inviting everyone we knew!
This doesn't include us buying some new outfits to wear for the week of vacation.
I am so excited about our destination wedding and so is all of our friends and family now that it is getting closer and closer to time when they can see the ocean and put their toes in the sand.
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Guests: Inviting: 220, Expecting: 100 (home town reception that a lot will attend)
Beach Permit, chair rental, etc: less than $500
Reception venue: $900
Food, alcohol, etc: $10,000
Flowers: $1,200
Music (steel drum & DJ too!): $750
Photography: $1,000
Not paying for hotel rooms for anyone.
Trolley service: $970
Our total budet is $20,000 (not including rings or honeymoon BUT including our hotel and travel plus all invitations and decor)
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number of guests: 80
cost for venue: for ceremony it's going to be about $1k
cost for reception: about $12k (friday wedding)
for flowers: I have $2400 budgeted but have not arranged a florist yet, so not sure if this is accurate
for photography: for just the photography and not including any albums/prints, it's looking like appx $2500
and did you pay for the hotel rooms for guests or just for immed. family? As much as I'd love to pay for everyone's rooms, I don't have that kind of money! We're just covering our own rooms and might help offset cost of wedding party's rooms, but that's about it.
Oh, and ours is on a Sunday at 3:30 with cocktail hour starting at 6:00
My friend had a destination wedding and she said it all cost around 10k. I was a bridesmaid in her wedding so I was there and thought I would share what I know. Had about 30 guests. All inclusive resort so rehearsal dinner was free at the buffet. Everyone purchased their own rooms and flights. She did get flowers through her package. For dinner everyone had one meal choice and open bar, but I don't know if it was extra since the resort had all you can drink as well. She also got her photography through her package. She did hire a dj and she got two coordinators with her package. I did see a wedding the day before and they did not have a dj, they had a boom box and everyone was having a great time. This is in Mexico at an all inclusive resort.
Maui, Hawaii
number of guests: 28
cost for venue: for ceremony $800 plus $350 for shuttle service required to get to location, for reception $400
cost for reception: about $4k
for flowers: about $300
for photography: $2200 includes CD,prints, TTD shoot
and did you pay for the hotel rooms for guests or just for immed. family? My parents paid for 2 three bedroom condos that accomodated all the guests from my side of the family (about 60% of our guests) for a week.
We did a 6 day/5 night cruise to Bermuda from NYC/NJ in October. The ceremony took place the first day at the port of call. We had a local reception a few weeks later since food and partying is pretty much taken care of on a cruise. The ceremony package included cake and champagne.
number of guests: 40
ceremony: $3300
photography: $560
wedding coordinator (required): $150
hair: $72
transportation of guests to the beach in Bermuda: $325
accommodation: $1957 (tips incl)
guest gifts/drinks/misc: $1316
Total: $7680
We didn't pay for anyone else's room but we did get credit as group organizer for every person who booked under our name. I used that credit to buy rounds of drinks (reflected above).
Our wedding will be in the Cayman Islands.
We have booked our cruise for $419 a person. Everyone is going to be paying their own way. We haven't been able to get prices for the flights yet, because it is too soon. But they will be around $200 round trip.
Our ceremony is only going to be around $1500 which will include a photographer for an hour and a 1/2, we aren't having anything big, just the normal vows, and we aren't having a reception because we are having one when we return. We will have a little celebration for dinner those cost haven't been brought up yet but i'm sure it'll only be a few hundred dollars, and just going out to the bars on the ship.
I am making my own bouquet as well at my bridesmaids and the boutiners.
Our wedding will be in yosemite, roughly a 4-hr drive from major cities.
number of guests: 80-90
cost for venue:ceremony ~1000 (includes church donation & chapel rental)
cost for reception ~12K (or less, hopefully)
for flower: $700 (costco + silk flower centerpieces)
for photography: <$3000
and did you pay for the hotel rooms for guests or just for immed. family?
I paid for immediate family (6 ppl including myself); everybody else, including wedding party, is paying their own.
I would say that it's not too much more expensive than a wedding in the SF bay area since the SF bay area venues/vendors are just as expensive if not more. The cost not factored in is gas for driving and hotel cost out of the guests' own pockets. The upside for the guests is that they don't have to drive home after the reception.
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Since we have a thread about wedding cost, I'd like to see if there is a clear cut difference about having a destination wedding.
If you could, what was your
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