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My biggest expense was the catering: $175+ Tax + Tip = Came to around $25,000
Church/Ceremony Music: $2,250
Photographer/Videographer: $4,500
DJ: $3,000
1 Limo/1 Escalade: $700
Dress from Pronovias: $1,400
Those were the big things...tons of other small things...
Hey! I'll share.. just because I'm curious where I am compared to other brides in the 5 boroughs... my fiance & I really tried to stay on budget, but since we're both italian.. well if you're italian, you know how weddings are!!! We're having everything in Staten Island:
Wedding Hall : $125 per person x 275 people = $34,375
DJ/Lighting : $3500 (friend of mine)
Photographer : $4000
Videographer : $1500
Invitations : $1100
Favors : $1000
Church : $1000
Limos : $1750
Rehearsal Dinner : $1500
Flowers : $4500
That's all the big stuff.. so a total of $53,125.. i think i just started crying!!
I have a ton of smaller stuff, like bridal party gifts, place cards, etc... thank god my parents paid for my dress !!
This is going to hurt...
Photographer - $8500
Caterer/venue - $36,000 (60 guests)
Invitations - $2500
Flowers (with some rentals) - $22,000
Not sure about the rest of the expenses yet but we've budgeted about $96,000 total.
Here's mine. Wedding in Brooklyn.
Wedding Hall: $18,700 (150 guests)
Photog: $3,700
Deejay w/ Lighting: $2,800
1 Limo & 1 Convertable: $1,700
Church Fees/Donations: $1,000
Estimates (We have not hired them yet) =
Florist: $5,000
Video: $2,500
Invitations: $1,200
Rings: $3,500
Honeymoon: $10,000
My dress and accessories are going to be a gift from my aunt. Rehearsal Dinner will be a gift from FI's family.
@fashionbug: 620 Loft and Garden. Private garden at the Rockefeller Center on the British Empire building. Worth every penny but it hurts, I won't lie. :)
We're doing a "package" or sorts through our planner. 30% off the major vendors. Still a huge splurge but worth every penny to work with vendors we don't have to stress about because of their reputation.
Here is my Manhattan wedding break down, $42k
- Ceremony/Reception Venue: $130 x 100 guests $13,000 (Moran's Chelsea)
- Ceremony Music: $550 (Anthology Strings)
- Officiant: $500 (Jim Covvington)
- Flowers: $1600 (Victor's Garden District Ltd)
- Photog & Film: $6200 (Jaydgardinaphotography.com & 15minutesoframe.com)
- Limo & Taxi Cab (1960's checkered cab) $1500 (silver star limo)
- Invitations: $200 (magnetstreet.com)
- DJ (no lighting needed): $2000 (DJ Paul Anthony Entertainment)
- Favors: Donation to Charity, $1000 (American Cancero Society)
- Cake- $700
- Wedding Bands $5000 (Tacori)
- My Dress: $1400 (Allure Bridal)
- Honeymoon to St.Lucia: $6500 (Sandals La Toc & Ladera)
- Misc (groom tux, BM's dresses, FG & RB dress/suit, place card holders, card box, extra candles/vases for ceremony, veil, head piece, bride shoes) $1850
Here we go...
Venue/food/bar: $150/person - 200 guests = $30,000 (this was with a huge discount because we got married in January)
My dress (Pricilla of Boston) + alterations: $7,000
DJ - $1,000
Flowers $8,500
Limos/transportation: $3,000
Photographer - $4,000
Videographer - $3,500
Favors & OOT Bags - $700
Invitations - $2,500
Church stuff (priest, music, precana)- $800
Hair & makeup - $2,500
Rings - $3,500
TOTAL: $98,500
Here's ours for our September 2011 Manhattan wedding - vendor totals include tips where appropriate:
Catering (included passed hors d'ouevres, 3-course seated dinner, 5 hours open bar, all staff and rentals): $24,162 for 146 guests or ~$165 per person
Venue: $6,500
Photographer (including engagement shoot and album): $3,100
Photobooth: $1,395
Bride's dress, shoes, accessories: $2,576
Groom's suit and accessories: $854
Bridesmaids' dresses and groomsmens' suits (we purchased): $1,561
DJ: $1,425
Flowers: $3,122
STDs/invites/postage: $875
Officiant: $650
Wedding rings: $953
BM/GM gifts (8): $735
Hair and makeup for bride, bridesmaids and mothers: $1,520
Hotel for wedding night: $748
Day-of transport: $360
Cake: $750
Honeymoon (incl. flights, 8 nights hotel, eating/drinking/activities): $5,942
Rehearsal dinner/welcome drinks (~40 at dinner, ~80 at drinks): $5,572
Videographer: $3,050
Misc. (incl. craft supplies, cake toppers, photobooth props, printing menus and programs...): $1,208
Total: $66,032
@techie: I demand pictures of $22,000 flowers. No seriously, that is amazing... I'm green with envy!
80 guests 5k budget
Venue-Dumbo loft -1500 friday
Catering- 1500
Photo 6 hrs 900
flowers 600
dj-free
honeymoon isnt included
BUMP! I'm still "waiting", but I have many things already planned in my head...would love to hear any NY budgets. :-) Thanks!!
@KristenGotMarried: samsies. That's exactly $20k more than I spent...sounds amazing.
@bride2bejc: Jim is marrying us in Central Park in June! How was he? What kind of ceremony did you have? Any readings? How was he to work with? We met with him over the summer and he gave us a brief overview of what he will say. Have yet to finalize things. Any advice?
@lauren810c: Where were you able to get 2 cars for $700 (total)? Most quotes I got were at least $700 for one!
Wedding in NJ but using some NYC vendors
1. Venue (CC ballroom) - $136 per person + $7/pp ceremony + 20% gratuity and 7% NJ tax = $180/pp x 125 guests = $22,465
2. Photographer - LoveMorePhoto NYC - $3300 for 10 hours, 2 shooters
3. Flowers - Monday Morning Flowers - $3800 including tall centerpieces
4. DJ from SCE for 6 hours and lighting - $2800
5. Dress Lazaro purchased at NY sample sale - $2400
6. Save the date magnets - free
This brings total spent to $34,765. Still have to get everything else like transportation, invites, etc
100ppl $12,700
Check out our pics here: http://www.vintodphotography.com/p702738345
@bkpinkbride: Hey fellow brooklyn bride,I have got to know where you found a photographer in NYC for $900.00 and flowers for $600. I had one woman tell me that I won't be able to find flowers for a wedding for less than $1500.
Please impart some knowledge on a fellow BK bee.
@2beMrsharris. I actually need to change that because its now free. But i have found a bunch on craigslist. SOme who are already in the wedding business some are looking to get into it. As for flowers Im DIY them that quote is for all the flowers i need from fifty and afloral.com.
Im using flowers in my centerpieces,bouquet and bm bouquet. DOnt let any1 tell u wat u cant do. My original wedding budget was 20k but now its 5k and I didnt have to skimp on anything.
@bkpinkbride: I'm curious as to how you got DUMBO loft for $1500 for a Friday. I am also having my wedding on a Friday but was quoted for $3000. Perhaps its because my wedding will be next year?
We did a Saturday night in Manhattan, at Pratt House. Cost was $40k for everything - $7500 of that being the damned venue! (but I loved it) I'd originally hoped for $30k, but it turns out that even DIYing gets costly.
I hired a photographer from out of state - turns out a lot of great photographers out West (esp Utah) have MUCH lower rates than anyone in NYC - think 50-60% less - and a flight across the country is only $350 round trip or so. ;)
Other cost-saving tips: hire outerborough florists, hair & makeup, baker, and caterers. It makes a huge difference.
I haven't actually added it up before.
Venue: 5600
Dress: 4500
Catering: 21,000
Alcohol:2,500
Flowers 2300
Photographer: 3200
Misc rentals: 1000
Favors: 300
Invitations: 510
Rings: 600 (my engagement ring and wedding band were both family heirlooms)
hair/makekup: 400
I can't bring myself to add all of that together.
@Techie I had to look up your venue b/c of your costs (shameful I know) and b/c of the responses from some other bees about your site....and can I just tell you, I literally had wipe the drool from my chin! Lol It is absolutely BREATHTAKING!!! I can't wait to see your recap pics! And all of those flowers!!!
Wow, just wow. We decided to do an out of state wedding to save money, but after all the rentals, planning trips, etc., I wondered if we were really saving. But after reading this, yes, we are saving a ton! Except for Miss Pizzelle, your budgeting rocks and your photos are great. Our most expensive item is the caterer, but it will still be under $100p/p (including the rentals).
We had about 50 people and I think we came in just under $3500. As youcan see, we spent money on the things that were important to us. We had tons of food since FIL works for a grocery store so most of what we paid for was appetizers/plates/napkins/silverware. We also had a family friend who paid for our flowers for us, but if I added that in, I believe the flowers were another $175.
Venue: Free (at-home wedding)
Invitations/Programs: $10 (DIY using supplies we already had so this was mostly postage)
Officiant: $400
Ceremony Musician: $100 (as a tip for a colleague of mine)
Reception Music: Free (ipod and speakers)
Rental Company: $175
Decorations: $300
Flowers: $25 (see above)
Food: $200 (we did have about $2000 of food donated from FIL's job)
Alcohol: $400 (we overspent here and ended up with about 2x what we needed)
Cake: $175
Photography: $450 (2 photographers for 4 hours)
Dress: $550 (including alterations, veil, shoes, & accessories)
Tuxes: $250 (we paid for groomsmen too since they paid for airfare)
Rings: $325 (engagement was family heirloom so this was wedding rings only)
Hairs/make-up/mani/pedi: $40
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