May 2013 Weddings

Budget Question

Not trying to steal from QOTD, but I gotta ask.. check out your TK Budgeter... Compare the "Actul Budget" to the "Amount spent". What percentage of your budget have you already spent?? I'm curious to see what the average is for having 10ish months left.
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Re: Budget Question

  • edited July 2012
    We are at 16% paid for as of today and have been actively planning for a touch over 2 months.
    Jackie (Photographer by trade) & Patrick (Military Police Officer)
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  • I'm not using any of TK tools.  But I keep myself pretty organized- we've spent about 25% so far of our total budget on the dress and all the deposits.  We've been planning for about 9 months.

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  • We're at about 60% already... that's just for reception (food), cake, DJ, photographer, ceremony location. But those are the major things aside from the dress. (These are as considered payment in full - not just the deposits which have paid - in that case we're at much less).

    I'm only using the budgeter tool as kind of a guideline. Some things are going to be a little more expensive, some less.

    I think it estimated that we should be spending $400 on a DJ (not realistic) - we're spending $600. It's estimating $600 for my dress - I'm limiting myself to a dress for under $300 (getting my alterations done elsewhere so it won't cost an arm and a leg).

    It estimates FI's tux at $60 and I already know that he's not gonna find one for $60 - $100 maybe, but probably upwards of $150.

    Centerpieces are estimated at $400 - we're probably re-using FSIL's so that's free! Not excited about that, but if that means having a good photographer, I'll do it!

    Was lucky to get a groupon for STD's which saved us about $40-$45. Hopefully we can take advantage of another one for the invites.
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    We haven't spent much yet, but have deposits on everything. We are saving and then paying up. The only thing getting a montly payment is our photog because I wanted to secure them and that was the only way to at the time.
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  • We've spent (deposits mostly) 19.5% of our budget. 



  • were at 27% paid on our budget
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  • We're about 12 paid and that's all deposits. We'll be making a big payment here in October for the catering and booze, which will bring us closer to 50. I'm going to look at florists tomorrow which will help is figure out how much will go to flowers. That is one of the big unknowns right now.
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  • I use tk as a guide. We've only made our deposits for now. I feel like we have a lot done we really only need cake and florist the rest seems minor unless I'm overlooking something.
  • So far I think we've just made deposits (except my dress because I have it in hand). We have the money to make some of the final payments sitting in the bank. I'd rather have it in case something changes than someone else having it and trying to get it back.
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  • I'd say around 20% for us.
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  • yeah, ours is 100% deposits as well. Except we've bought the suit (b/c we were worried they were DCing the color we wanted) and some decor stuff. But everything else is deposits.
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