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Reading about the ladies on here saying their weddings are low budget makes me wonder, what IS low budget to you?
I say my wedding is low-budget, and we planned to spend about 2k... we're a little over that though.
How about you?
Our wedding is £8K (around $12K in USD) for a city wedding in London that's pretty low budget and we're DIY-ing the heck out of it. Personally I think anyone who can do a wedding under $5K are amazing and I wish I knew how you did it!
you just make it work, because its either a low budget wedding or no wedding.
Wow, I'm jealous of the anything under 10k or even 20k for that matter. I put over 10k, because ours is 30k and we're paying for it all ourselves!! I don't know if it's just our location or family/friend tradition, but typically I'd say we're on the average to low end of the budget scale amoung our peers.
WOW! I thought everyone would say 1K or less! I am super surprised! Mine is 1K.
I agree, per person and location have a lot to do with it. For downtown Chicago & our guest list (175 ish) I'd call $10,000 verrry much budget. In fact, I'd call it near impossible.
In my personal opinion, $10K or under is "low-budget" (though I still think $10K is expensive). However, I know that the average wedding is now around $35K, so...anything under $20K would be considered "low budget", I suppose.
I agree with Jenniphyr, anything under 10k is considered to be low budget, which is funny cause i know its such a huge day to us, but come on, its one day! thats one hell of a sweet down payment on a house (35k)
Well my low is 2k to 4K but you better believe I don't want to go over 3k matter of fact....I would love to stay under 2k lol. I think it all depends on that individual, because I have been to nice event weddings and it was not even 1k.
But weddings are expensive depending on what people want, like and guest count!
I don't consider my wedding low budget though I consider it on the lower side for our area (Bay Area). I'd say anything under $10k is low budget. Didn't vote because that isn't my budget.
And PirateJenn that's not anywhere near a down payment on a house for where I live/want to get a house.
@arachna, holy crap, but i just saw where you lived, lol. I'm in colorado, and i would sure as hell hope that cost of living is cheaper here, lol.
our is about 3 k, and thats for a 125 guest wedding on a golf course. we scored ;)
I think the term "low budget" is just soooo subjective. Compared to all of my family and friends who are getting married in the last few and next few years, we are definitely the low-est budget (not counting rings or honeymoon or rehearsal dinner, 13k). But I think we're still pulling off a pretty nice/traditional-esc wedding for that. It will be in a rented venue with catered food, alcohol, etc. We are skipping some things and skimping on others... but "low" really depends on what you're comparing to :)
Well I figure if you're going for a low-budget wedding, you obviously have to go with a low guest count. We're inviting about 120, but we know less than 100 will come. If all our guests were in-state, we'd only invite family.
Also, we're not doing the traditional sit-down dinner, or lunch. It's an afternoon reception with just light desserts. My parents did a cake and punch reception and they had a great time. It's about people celebrating you as a couple anyway, right?
And it does take a lot more work finding things for cheaper, but you can do it. My sister's husband is a pastor, so we're using his church for about $150, and we found a reception site that is local, not listed anywhere on the internet, and the guy just rents out his 10-acre property and buildings for anyone, it's only $450 for all day and we can spend all day Friday setting up.
We are DIY-ing a lot, but it's all about cutting costs to what's really important. I mean, it's one day out of your whole life.
And there is the whole connections thing, it's all about who you know :)
Where we live if you have a $10k wedding, its big....When I got married we had planned on a 3k and went a little over. Work and jobs are so scarce we didnt have a lot of wiggle room but knew we had enough to start out on. We saved most of our money by making the bouquets and bout's ourselves.
my budget for the wedding alone in 2000 but if you add the honeymoon will be 4000
Oh also, @lilyfaith, if you were to consider having the wedding outside a large city, it could cut costs, just an option. Yes, big city weddings are very expensive. But choosing venues an hour or two away isn't always so bad.
For the area I live in, anything under 15k is considered "low budget" but it also depends on how big your wedding is as well. For a wedding of 120 people 15k is do-able but with a lot of DIY'ing. This is pretty sad b/c this is the cost of a new, cute, sub-compact car and still a chunk of money. Most of my friend's and family's weddings were anywhere from $24k - $70k.
10,000 will probably be my budget.
Kind of sucks that you all consider that to be a "low-budget" wedding.
I kind of thought it was going to be a pretty nice wedding. Granted, I'm not going to rent out an amazing venue that overlooks downtown.
@Yumi87- we have the same budget! Your date is alot closer than mine if you have any tips that have worked for you please feel free to message me.
I voted for 1K because that is my budget and I know that alot of people would say that it was low budget but for me it isnt about how much I can spend its just about marrying my guy and having a great party with family and friends. It works for us! Plus I never saw going into debt an option for my wedding.
We are going to come in at about 5k but that is feeding 200-230 people! we scrimped on everything so we could feed people!
I don't like the term "low budget." I think that connotates a very negative meaning similar to "low rent," "tacky," or "classless" what I think you might have meant to say, "small budget."
For me, anything under $30K would be "small budget," but my wedding is in a big city. While that would be a small budget for me, most people doing weddings with those kinds of budgets don't have "low rent" type weddings. I've seen many beautiful and very unique weddings done with a small budget.
I didn't vote, because I don't consider myself to be having a "low budget". But anything under $25k would be low-budget in my opinion, for my area (NYC).
@wendyS328: I don't think any of the posters mean to imply that low budget means a not-nice wedding (although like @Mrs.Louboutin wrote, there does seem to be some sort of association between the two). I personally am jealous of anyone with the skills, patience, and time to put together a low budget/small budget wedding, whether it's by necessity or by choice.
I am so envious of you girls who manage to keep their budget within 3-4k limits!! We are looking at a ~8.5k budget right now, which I still consider to be pretty low-budget especially compared to some weddings (which by no means is meant bad, we all have different wishes, guestlists and money to spend!). But it sure is a lot of money and I would so love to be able to budget a little lower total hehe.
$5000, for 125 people! could have done it for less i think though looking back
Mrs. Louboutin , sorry but that just made me giggle a little! lol, but i think i could agree, that might offend someone.. somewhere! i'm working with a TIGHT budget, that's been my word of choice lately
I just have to ask - what do you count as to be in the budget? Only the reception?
Our reception cost is about 18 000 $ for 90 guests (we are having the reception at an old castle/manor house that nowdays is used as an hotel and spa)
The price includes: Champagne and canapés, three course sit down dinner with wine, coffee avec, wedding cake, center pieces and late night snack (like small warm sandwiches).
It is just so interesting to see how things are in other contries!
@Bunny 22: 70,000 on a wedding....my jaw literally just dropped.
Budgets are hard to compare because they are so location specific. Our wedding is in NH, 150 people, live band, and tons of DIY for $7,000. We first set the budget and then chose all of our vendors and location according to the budget. We didn't want to spend money that we don't have.
I agree that budgets are definitely hard to compare. I think a lot depends on where you live and the number of DIY projects you're willing/have the skill to do. I'm not doing any DIY because I'm not crafty :) I live in NYC and I don't personally know anyone who's done their wedding for less than 40K (although definitely possible). My budget is around 60K and honestly that is on the low end in terms of what my friends have spent.
I would love to know how to pull off a wedding for under 5k. I have no idea what my budget really is yet because I dont know what anything cost...oh so much fun to shop around
@Wendy- I'm an STL bride, too. My budget is $10k and I AM renting an amazing venue downtown, not overlooking but still down there. It can be done.
I honestly think my budget is high. $10k is a LOT of money. In the wedding world, not so much. If you break it down, total cost per person, we're spending approx $167/pp. We're only estimating about 60 guests.
We have worked SO hard to negotiate with vendors and keep costs low, but are still looking at around $25K for 125 people, not counting the honeymoon (we started with a $15K budget but soon realized it was close to impossible in our area if we wanted alcohol and a meal at the reception). We waited a long time for the right person and we aren't going into debt, so I try to console myself by thinking I'll have as nice a wedding as my friends who paid $40-50K-plus but for a much lower cost...
I consider our wedding low budget. We are spending around 7k. I think its low budget for the average cost of weddings, but by no means do I think that this is a small amount of money.
We are right under $10K; I always considered our wedding low budget. Esp. having such a long engagement so we could save. But after reading this thread, I dont think I'd be classified as low-budget; maybe more so for having a wedding in SoCal at $10K.
Hoping to come in under 10K, all said and done. For a 250 person wedding in my area that's low budget for sure.
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