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I would do most of it the same but i'd buy everyones flight and all their food and hotels and all that and have everything paid for for the guests. I'd rent them all vintage cars to drive around in and hire the pro photog. for the entire wedding weekend and have a photobooth and karaoke at the rd. (fi sings professionally we have so many tallented BP members!)
So tell me bees, if you won the powerball bagilliondy dollar jackpot right now, how would you change your wedding?
I'd do it outside like I wanted to - get a gorgeous tent and tons of amazing lighting. but beyond that, I'm not really a platinum weddings type of person and we haven't been skimping on guest perks.
Well, I take that back. If we really had oodles, I'd fly everyone to Biarritz, France and do a cliffside wedding in a custom gown :)
Um..hire a better photog...
That's it. Seriously I would rather spend that money on practical things like student loans...a home...ect.
Sorry, I'm no fun at this game. : ]
Nothing. We probably wouldn't even offer to pay for it as my parents are super loaded and wouldn't accept anyway.
I'm not fun either. I would have used the money for non-wedding things and mostly save it.
Oh wow, where to start. Get professionals for all the stuff I'm doing myself (stationery, flowers, favors etc). Have like 10x as much decor Upgrade parts of our wedding package like the linens and cake. Get professional lighting. Hire a photographer I like more and hire her for the whole day. Pay for people's hotels. Do a nice rehearsal dinner and maybe a day after brunch or an after party. Get a designer dress...maybe even two dresses! Hire a priest and a rabbi to marry us. And the list goes on.
But the number one thing I would do before all of those is book my dream honeymoon in the South Pacific!
I would hire a photographer instead of having my aunt do it and i would have shutterbooth. I would probably have the reception in a ballroom instead of a hall if i had to have it local versus a tropical island.
send out STD magnets and do real invites instead of printing my own
hmm, and maybe lower ab lipo ;)
and of course my 3 week honeymoon in the Maldives
I'd stop obsessively budgeting, haha. I would lighten up on the DIY and pay for more items and services. And I'd definitely do a budoir session if I had the cash. But no matter what happens, I have a feeling I wouldn't change much. Just make it easier.
Pay for all my BMs' everything. Go for a 5-star Vegas bachelorette party and pay for everyone's expenses. Upgrade wedding decor - tricked out tent lighting with Japanese lanterns, linen and chair upgrades, Mokara orchids, crazy Cake Alchemy cake. And ridiculous top of the line everything honeymoon.
Then I'd buy an apartment in NYC and a house in Rhode Island.
Aaaaaaaaaand now I'm depressed.
I can play this game!
I'd move the venue for the reception from a social club (on the edge of an industrial estate) to somewhere more scenic that we could have for the entire weekend (including accommodation)
I'd hire a kick-a$$ band instead of an affordable DJ and hire a kick-a$$ DJ to follow the band into the wee small hours
I'd hire a faboo photog for the entire weekend.
I'd fly all our out of town/overseas guests over and cover their food/transport.
I'd buy a new dress (probably)
I'd pay for all my bridesmaids' everything (dress/shoes/hair/makeup/jewelry)
I'd hire cool transport for the day - vintage cars for us and bridal party/fun party buses for out of town guests.
I'd take a leave of absence from my job and take a summer-long honeymoon.
And then I'd do lots of practical things with the rest of my gazillion dollars - pay off loans, buy property, make charitable donations, set up college funds for my niece/nephews and my future children. And go on a BIG shopping spree... That's practical, right???
FUN to think about. But still just as happy to marry FI no matter what - cannot wait!
Oh, I would have loved a Vegas bachelorette like Kittyachi, but honestly I don't have that many people that I would have had to invite either way.
I would have really fancy food, on top of elegant details everywhere you looked of course.
I'd still do our wedding but I'd just amp it up! I love our wedding but can think of extras I'd like to do if I had the extra cash - custom Jones sodas, great OOT bags, extra elements for the STD's and Invites, ect...
1) Hire a wedding planner
2) Hire a kick-ass photog and get the deluxe paparazzi package
3) Get a more expensive dress (haven't gotten one yet... but my budget is $500-- eek!)
4) Top shelf open bar all night
5) Different venue
6) Lots more flowers/more expensive flowers
Basically everything I guess :) I am trying to do a wedding for 100 on 10K and its ridic.
fly everyone to nola for our destination type wedding and house everyone in a hotel and do a day after brunch.. hopefully we can do all of these things anyway to a smaller scale. the rest would definitely be spent as a wedding gift to us paying off our debt... i still doubt if i'd spend over 10k total on the wedding though because that's 10,000!!!! lol i still pray i spend less than 3500... we'll see...
This topic has me thinking how lucky I am because I'm really happy with all my wedding decisions and wouldn't change anything!
I'd probably use it more on my honeymoon though, staying in the most luxurious hotels and so on. And I'd have my bachelorette at some really wonderful spa and pay for everyone to go and get totally pampered.
The food! Pay to get a real Chinese Cook in! A prime rib carving station.
And buy that authentic Jim Hjelm dress!! 
And that's really it.
Hmm...I'm pretty happy with what we have planned...ooohh wait...I'd hire those cinematographers from Canada umm..StillMotion I think? I watched some videos they did and was a blubbering mess a) because they were beautiful and b) because I can't afford them!
Other than that I'd buy my BMs dresses
I would:
Invite more people (we have a 120 cap that is proving very difficult to stay under)
Hire a better photog
Worry less
Hire a better videog (we booked an art student right out of college who will give us an edited version set to music AND the original unedited reel. FI toyed with being a film major before opting for investment banking, and made a few films in college so we figured he could always making something really kickass with the footage later)
Worry less
Skip the DJ and get an awesome band (with a vocalist)
Worry less
Upgrade the hotels we're staying at in Australia
Worry less
Plan a special NYE trip this year since we had to nix that idea to save for the wedding
WORRY LESS
I love the wedding we're planning but having an open budget would def alleviate a LOT of the stress
We had a great honeymoon, but it would always be better to be longer and hop around to different parts of the world.
I would have paid for the friends and family that wanted to come but couldn't afford to go to our destination wedding. Although it was nice to only have about 35 people there. But there are a few people I was bummed couldn't make it. And I would have written the checks instead of our parents. Oh and I would have paid any amount to hire a personal trainer force me to work out and eat healthy everyday leading up to the wedding - I really dropped the ball on that one.
i would be able to pay for the wedding instead of relying on parents - i could not be more grateful to my parents and his for paying for the wedding, but i think it would have been really nice to be able to pay for it ourselves!
(and then down payment on my nyc apt!)
Nothing. I'd spend it on something else. I'm already not happy about the 20k+ we are spending now.
I just want to elope!
I'd hire someone to do some kickass lighting in our venue. Fancy shmancy transportation for all, and I'd pay for all things bridesmaid.
1) Pay for all guests to fly to an exotic location where we’ll get married
2) Rent out the whole place where we’ll get married for 1 wk (gotta have limits, right?)
3) Pay for all guests’ lodging for 1 wk
4) Hire the best trainer, nutritionist, and liposuction doctor (if I don’t chicken out) to make me svelte and sexy for my wedding dress =) (a girl can wish)
5) Hire the TransSiberian Orchestra for the wedding ceremony & cocktail hour
6) Hire Micheal Buble & his band for the reception
7) Hire Vera Wang to design my dress
8) Hire the best photographers, chefs, florist, etc.
9) Spend some for our honeymoon (not sure where yet)
10) Save and invest the rest
Now, everything said, I loved my wedding. I would have changed a few things, but I can't so I've gotta deal. I'm married to the most wonderful man and we couldn't be happier.
We'd all be going to an all inclusive in Jamaica for a week. In fact, they'd all be going, and I'd be in a different one, haha... and we'd travel europe for a month for our honeymoon! Woo!
Raw bar! Towers of endless lobster!
DJ would become a band.
And I'd probably pay someone else to plan it :)
I'd change the venue and get the best caterer I could find.
Pay for everyone's bridesmaid dresses and tuxes.
Have an unreal honeymoon
Pocket the rest!
I'd pay for more people to fly to our DW, and spend more money on our honeymoon..practically though, i'd probably throw it all in house savings!
I love this poll!
I would rent chiavari chairs and go crazy with linens. I would also get a super couture gown - I love mine to death, but I would *love* to fly out to Kleinfeld's and get a "no budget" dress.
I am not sure I would spend more on the wedding, because I am frugal, but I probably would since I have more money right??...I for sure would upgrade the food, and completely pay for the whole wedding parties expenses, and I would pay for the wedding, not our parents. I would then for sure go on an amazing honeymoon, and send our parents each on a 2nd honeymoon (location of their choice), after all, if it wasn't for them, then there would be no 'US'. Then of course pay off bills, etc.
I told my mom that I'd have paper lanterns if I won the lottery. There are a bunch of other things but that's one thing I'd have to do since I told my mom I would.
I'd stop stressing over the guest list and have the reception at my dream location at this great hotel downtown.
I'd change the DJ to a band and spend more on the chairs and linens at the reception.
We'd add a cocktail hour prior to the reception.
Then I'd pay off our student loans and use the rest to help out our house savings.
I would fly somebody in who specializes in African American hair and makeup.
I would probably have a couple more people I would fly over
That's about it....there isn't enough money to control the weather though
i would just worry less and have things already booked - instead of budgeting and picking and choosing based on price. i would get what i want first off.
better photographer, get a videographer, full open bar, pay for the bridal party rooms and clothes etc. have a huge welcome party for the OOT guests, kick butt honeymoon, and hire this bad that a friend had at her wedding, best BAND EVER.
basically same wedding, but with all the upgrades i want without having to worry about budget.
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