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Curious to know what others splurged on.
Mine was photography. I fell in love with my photographer's work. Photography is very important to me and my fiance, so we booked her! The cost is quadupale what we budgeted for the photography. A big splurge, I know, but totally worth it!
so far my dress. I was hoping to get one for $500ish. But I broke the golden rule and tried on gowns out of my price range and fell in love with a 1500 dress. Oh well. I keep telling myself i never had prom or homecoming dresses, so this is just all those rolled into a "super" dress and I deserve it, haha.
If we end up being able to afford it, our photography will be our biggest splurge.. but at about 4k it isn't looking very promising. :(
Agreed...photographer...I fell in love with ours! We haven't had our session yet. However you can view her work!
we are doing rustic/country and elegant so she was perfect for this!
The venue (which includes the catering). God, that number makes me want to barf.
Mine is venue as well with food. Food is definitely the budget breaker...
We were planning on photography being that splurge -- their base price is $5,500! But now, we're thinking of going with a different (and much more affordable) photographer and allocating some of those funds towards more flowers and purchasing hair/makeup for all my bridesmaids!
Venue ($3,000) it's both ceremony and reception, includes a coordinator, and we get to have bridal portraits taken at Fallingwater.
We were trying to skimp on everything else, so our photog felt like a splure too, but at $2100 including taxes, digital images, 2n shooter, 8 hours, engagement session/pics and the fact that she's freakin AWESOME, she wasnt really all that pricey.
Definitely the venue. I know it's supposed to be the biggest part of your budget anyways, but ours will end up being 65-75% of our total spending.
Our photographer was definitely the biggest "for me" splurge at our wedding as well. $3000 of a $15,000 budget.
The catering. Looks like it will be 50% of our budget to wine and dine everyone.
@Roe: Your venue is Fallingwater? That's awesome! I had no idea people could even do that. I'm so jealous!
I'm so glad I'm not alone in splurging! It sounds like everyone is really happy with their splurges! :)
@Lemma: Kind of! It's awesome:
The ceremony/reception is a few hundred yards down the road in a gorgeous restored barn. It stunningly beautiful and a bit more chic than most of the barn weddings, I think. The restoration was also very eco-conscious. If the weather hold up, our ceremony will be behind the barn in a little wooded clearing; the dowstairs of the barn is the back up venue--gorgeous and very modern with a huge stone fireplace. The upstais 'hayloft' is the reception site.
After the ceremony, when Fallingwater is closed to visitors, we will get to traipse over to the house and have our portrait session there with no one to bother us but our photographer :) We're both really excited about the venue--I have a more natural aesthetic, FI loves more modern digs, so this was perfect.
We looked at Kentuck Knob, another FLW home nearby and you actually can have your whole shebang within the house itself, but this fit our personalities more.
This is a random photographer's blog--much better than the pics on the website, I think.
I could wax poetic forever about my venue. 
And our photog--both of our splurges are the best wedding decisions we've made
Photography too. It's the only thing that will last forever, other than our love ;)
Our venue/food was definitely something we were willing to splurge on, even if we got a kind-of break for having a March wedding. Our catering is just not even close to any other place in our area.
Also our photographer, who is a family friend of FH, still is a splurge at $1000 over our planned budget. My parents don't know that (they're paying) so FH and I are paying the difference.
I honestly can't narrow it down. I'd have to say THE WHOLE WEDDING! Seeing the almost final figures of how much we spent is making me sick.
We had a few, but the biggest was the band. It was absolutely worth it, our band was fantastic and everyone was raving about them.
I'd say the photographer and the venue (local food, very well known chefs). But, we're getting a lot from that venue and I absolutely love our photog.
Venue for sure - access to a great farm for a whole weekend of events didn't come cheap. In fact it's more than I had originally planned to speand on the whole wedding, and it doesn't even include food! But I adore it, and we'll find a way to make it work.
Our food/alcohol by far, my dress, photographer, band are all pretty much on par with each other
The overall reception package was the most expensive - but in terms of actual items? The dress. I've never spent that much on a piece of clothing before in my life... and I never will again.
Well, for us the biggest ticket item is the venue/catering at about $3,500(venue is free with >2,000 in food). Brunch for 150 is $3,000 plus a nice sparkling wine for the champagne toast (not cheap, not Champagne either) is another $500 or so (can't remember exactly).
However, that actually felt like a really reasonable price, so the thing that FEELS like the biggest splurge is the dessert table. I'm having cake, croquembouche, macarons and shortbread cookies collectively supplied by three separate local bakeries (yipes!). The total is about $500... but considering that is also the price of my photographer and more than my dress ($282) it feels like a ridiculous luxury.
We've been pretty modest as far as booking our venue, photographer, florist, and dj. Got a venue with a tax deductible deposit, a photographer with lower rates as she is a "beginner" in the professional world (although her work is BEAUTIFUL), my dress from a sample sale, our DJ for 1/2 price with a Cyber Monday deal...Where we splurged though was on a $2700 ferris wheel rental! My fiance proposed to me on a ferris wheel, so it was important for us to incorporate that into our theme. Since our venue allowed it, we went ahead and rented it! It's a full size 40' one too! An unecessary splurge, but we know our guests will enjoy it as much as we do :)
We splurged on the all-inclusive Venue because it was everything we wanted in ONE place.
The food! We've spent a little extra on the DJ as well because he's playing the piano for the ceremony and cocktail hour and the music is so important to us since it creates the whole mood of the wedding! BUT, the food is almost half of our budget!
My wedding dress. And FI's yet-to-be-made custom-cut suit. We're both putting down QUITE a pretty penny for our attire. And yet, somehow, I think that it will be worth it. I hope that on that day we will each feel that we've never looked better.
Our splurge will be a live band that we fell in love with, and a lighting package. Uplighting in our wedding color, a band wash, a dancefloor wash, and pinspotting for the cake and the centerpieces. Pricey but it will be well worth it!
Videography. Hadn't even originally planned on it, then when I did, no typical videographers would do, I wanted quality! :)
Looks like ours will be venue... around $8k with all the things it includes, such as linens and dishes (but not food). I thought that was pretty inexpensive until I started reading around on here!
Photography - It was really important to us to get photos we loved because we would have those forever.
Dress and jewelry. I'm great at staying within budget (I'm really low-maintenance about the whole wedding, so it's pretty easy). But I found a dress right at the upper limit of my dress budget, and loved it. Then alterations on it were right at the upper limit for alterations. But it'll be gorgeous. I went over on jewelry too.
Venue/catering: we're paying around £7k (about $10.5k) for food and drink (canapes, 3 course meal, and drinks for 50, plus evening buffet (catering for 70), and about £1.5k behind the bar)
My dress was also quite xpensive (£1200/$1600) as were my shoes (£600/$900). Honeymoon will probably be anything from £4-6k, and our photographer will probably cost about £1-1.5k for a fully day plus images on a disc (no album).
Things we're saving on our invites/stationary, transport, flowers/decorations.
Apart from our reception, it was music! We are having Divisi Strings at the ceremony and reception! They are string quartet that plays classical AND top 40/pop!
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