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What's your number

If you feel comfortable. What is your  budget and guest count? Where are you cutting corners and where are you spending the big bucks?
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Re: What's your number

  • teachermegsteachermegs member
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    edited December 2011

    PMed you.

  • babybchbumbabybchbum member
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    edited December 2011
    My budget given by my parents was 10K... we ended up spending closer to 15 -18K. We had 100 guests RSVP invited 160 (although could have been much more.)

    Determine what is important to you and don't skimp on that. For me it was Photography and Food. and I spent a good chunck of money on Food (used Olympia) found a fabulous Photographer (Jason Angelini) for a great price and my guests are still talking about both now 3 months after my wedding.
  • bella3609bella3609 member
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    edited December 2011
    Budget was originally $10,000; some help came in so we moved it to $12,000, which allowed us to get a venue we loved and a decent caterer :-)

    So far we're tracking pretty close to that number, though it's still early. We're inviting no more than 80, as that's what the room holds.

    Venue and food were most important to us. We're using friends of friends for photography and DJ - still professionals, but very reasonable. Shopped a sale for my dress, DIYing flowers, programs, centerpieces, favors, decorations; friend is doing our invitations as a wedding present. No STDs, no videographer (waaaah, though if we have extra money we may reassess that in a few months). Doing cupcakes/a small cake with a larger sheet instead of a big three-tier rigamarole. Doing beer and wine only and bringing our own rather than going through the caterer. Getting our stylist friend to help with setting up in the morning. Venue has an on-site coordinator for meeting vendors, etc.

    $10,000 didn't seem like a lot to us at first, but after seeing people do it on much, MUCH less, we felt very grateful for our own particular number!
  • edited December 2011
    We're shooting for 12k. We, like the previous post, had originally tried to budget for 10k but it seemed almost impossible for the amount of people we have to invite (and I say have because they are immediate family).We are inviting around 120, so around 100 or so people may show. We have some good fortune by way of photographers as FI is a photographer and his boss has made it clear that we don't have to worry about that at all. I'm HOPING to use what we would have spent there on a videographer, but who knows? We did hire a planner (not just a DOC, the whole shebang), as FI really isn't that interested in planning and I'm a full time student and I work part time so my head was spinning. Even this early in the process it was a good decision. She reminds me of meetings I have with vendors, sends me all kinds of ideas I can think about and build on, has great working relationships with lots of vendors, and she is also just a really fun person to talk to about wedding stuff. I feel we kinda splurged there because we didn't necessarily HAVE to hire her (like you need a caterer or venue), but she is SO worth every penny and it doesn't make a difference anyway because regardless of what she charges it comes out of the budget and she will help figure out how to fit every other vendor into it along with her!

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  • CJTeacupCJTeacup member
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    edited December 2011
    We have about 20k, venue, food and photos are the priority, so we dedicated larger chunks of money on those services.
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