The good news is we have until June of 2015 to plan this thing. Me and the future Mrs. have been playing with ideas and have narrowed it down to 300 people on a $10,000 budget with nothing outside (its Texas in June!!!) around Ft Worth area on a Saturday since half of the guests are traveling more than 3 hours. From what the cost of venues are that we've seen online and gotten, is this budget possible for this many people? Cant seem to locate any venues that are big enough to accommodate our number of guests and ones that are seem to eat up half the budget. We have no problem with it being a DIY wedding. Just dont want to overspend on a venue. Also, cheap ideas on discounted lodging would help a lot too for guests coming into town.