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The one area I never thought I'd spend a lot of money on was my wedding dress. i figured that $1k was more than enough for a dress that I'd only wear once!
But I ended up falling in love with and buying an Anne Barge gown, and then preserving it. That was a big splurge.
What was your wedding splurge?
My shoes! Mr Breezy will tease me for how much I spent on them 'till the end of my days. But I can take it - it was so worth it.
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My splurge is about to be my shoes as well! I may resell my gown, but I am keeping the shoes!!
Mine's chiavari chairs as well! :)
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I'm doing a live event artist to paint my ceremony, a photobooth, and a great photog. I think my splurge is in the photo/video arena! :) Oh and i'm also doing Chiavari chairs, but got an uber great deal on them :)
Ours will definitely be photography. Our photographer is amaaaazing, but pricey. It'll be worth it, though! We joke that even if everything else we do looks like crap that she'll take such phenomenal pictures of our crap that it will all be OK. 
Mine is going to be chair covers. I really haven't splurged on anything yet, but those chair covers are definitely not something I need so it's a splurge to get them.
Shoes for sure were a big one. I got an amazing pair of Gucci champagne colored d'orsey heels with a crystal covered buckle at the toe. I still adore them and just love the fact that they are in my closet!
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I haven't splurged on anything either. I've been very budget conscious during the whole planning phase (You need to be when trying to plan a wedding for $6,000) but one totally unnecessary "splurge" is that we're renting a sno kone machine ($50) and having someone serve the guests sno kones before our outdoor August ceremony. It'll be an unexpected surprise and I think they're going to love it!!
A great photographer. IT would have ben chivari chairs but luckily our venue came with them 
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If everything goes according to plan, mine will be shoes.
Definitely videography. I saved so much on everything else, I just had to! I fell in love with his work, and nothing else looked right after that. So I'm selling my dress post-wedding to afford him! :) Totally worth it.
Beauty - I paid for makeup and hair for myself, 3 maids and my Mom on the big day, which ended up quite a bit more than I had planned to spend (about $125 per person!), but hey, they came to us so we could relax and no one had to drive - we all looked and felt great and there was no stress over errant hairs and crooked eyeliner, so it was worth it!
Another definite splurge for us was alcohol - between wine, champagne and bar drinks we spent almost $45 pp for beverages - but it was worth it to us to have the bubbly flowing and to have everyone able to drink what they wanted if it wasn't bubbly. I guess we have a drinking bunch of family and friends!
Right now, it's the rings. We'll wear them forever, so we're getting ones that we'll love. Then, it'll probably be photography. My mother is already fretting about how we're going to pay for it (as we refuse to accept any of the money from both families). I'll DIY everything to get a good photographer!
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Our photographer is our splurge. Once I saw her portfolio, I knew I had to have her. I've been completely budget conscious for everything else... but caution went out the window for her!
Our splurge was the venue (which includes rooms, catering and alcohol). We knew we wanted to have the wedding in a place that was special to us, so we cut costs in other places.
Mine was our photographer as well - but well worth it!!
We splurged on our photography, but it was way worth it.
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Photography and catering. Photography is going to be between 1/3 and 1/4 of our entire budget, but it was that important to us.
And catering. Well, we were going to DIY, but when we decided not to, we decided to show people how awesome vegetarian food can be. Turns out, our costs are still going to be a TON less than what we would get if we were having the wedding in a city, but the sum is more than double what we were originally planning to spend. On the upside, I'm convinced we're going to have the best wedding food EVER. :)
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Our venue (including catering and bar) is a bit of a splurge. But, our biggest splurge is our photographer. We have our engagement pics in two weeks, so my fingers are crossed that he can make us look as amazing as he's made others look. Actually, my e-ring ring was a splurge too... Good thing I'm really cheap with everything else. :)
Shoes, booze and photos will be our big splurge. I would of loved a live band, but I'm not sure it can be fit into the budget.
our photographer, but he rocks! But I'm ok with that since our photos will last forever!
Mine will have to be my dress. Sure, we have a wonderful menu but that was within a good price range. I, like Mrs. Bee, thought $1,000 was plenty to spend on a dress. But I fell in love with Pronovias and am just so happy to wear the most special dress on what will be the best day of my life!!
(1) Photography- much more than waht we allocated but we are both calm now knowing that our photos are going to be awesome (and such a wonderful thing to look forward to after we get back from the honeymoon).
(2) Shoes - have not even shopped or purchased them yet - but the shoes I can totally wear again and again and the wedding is a great excuse to buy my first ever prestigious designer pair 
Our venue is going to be a big splurge for us, it's really pricey but for us there was never a choice it was the only place!
We want to do bands from Tiffanys so that might be a splurge too...
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Our splurge was the Viennese sweet table -- It was the only thing I just "had" to have! I think my husband splurged on my engagement ring and the honeymoon.
Open bar and photography. =)
Gotta get some great photos of the crazy partiers. =)
Mine was the photographer... until we somehow paid even more for the florist!!! Eeeeeeeeek!
Definitely the photographer. I won't wear the dress again. Noone will see the shoes. The flowers will wilt. But, those photos will be cherished until the day I die.
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Dress and photography! We both wanted great photography so that didn't feel like a splurge to me, more like a necessity. However, the dress was a big surprise, because I'm a t-shirt and jeans kinda girl. So when FI fell i n love with this one dress and I felt it too, I was like, oh what the hell...why not? So yeah, so feeling guilty, but very much in love with my wedding dress.
Mine's the photographer. Took out a huge chunk of our budget but we love his work and think it will be worth it! :)
We splurged on our caterer. we had been to a bunch of weddings in the past yr and the foods we ate were so horrible. But then some may argue we splurged on our venue too...
Catering. And wine. We are paying corkage on the bottles we're supplying. And we're supplying all of them, because we liked our selection better than the Homestead's.
At the moment it is my $2000 wedding dress which I love.. But I am going to be doing a lot of DIY with Muslin so that may become a big splurge.
The venue. We paid $8000 just to RENT the venue. This didn't even include basic essentials like tables or chairs that you'd get at hotels or most other venues!! We also need to pay for generators to supply enough electricity!! Big ouch on the budget, but it's truly beautiful and one of a kind.
My dress was double what I orginally wanted to spend but I just fell in love with a Jim Hjelm gown. I just love alencon lace!
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