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Wedding cost

hollytrea80hollytrea80
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Hello Brides!
I am getting married in two months and in addtion to wedding planning and working full time, I take classes part time.  One of them is a stastics class. I have to do this project using standard deviation.  I decided to do the cost of weddings in central PA compared what Brides magazine and other magainzes say is the national mean cost of a wedding.  I don't need a large sampling but at lesat 10 ten responses would help.  So if you don't mind sharing what you did you or do you expect to plan on your wedding?  An estimate is fine.  It is all for school and anonymous. 

Just to share.  I am expecting to end up spending around $20,000 on my own nupitals. 

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  • mommachevmommachev
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    edited December 2011
    Our wedding which is May 13th has a budget of $4,000 which includes a mini honeymoon and to for the dog to go to the Petsmart hotel. Smile
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  • Dominique1219Dominique1219
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    edited December 2011
    Our 10/23/10 wedding cost us about $17,000, not including our $3,800 honeymoon.
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  • mjgnjrsmjgnjrs member
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    edited December 2011
    Ours is $4,000 not including honeymoon, september 2011.
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  • mdoyle1217mdoyle1217
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    edited December 2011
    We're planning on spending between $6,000 and $8,000 on ours not including the honeymoon.  Good luck with your project!
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  • edevlin23edevlin23
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    edited December 2011
    Our wedding will cost us between 10-12,000 plus our honeymoon.
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  • anm5163anm5163 member
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    edited December 2011
    including our honeymoon ours will cost about 25,000
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  • brownhenrybrownhenry
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    edited December 2011

    All said and done ours should be about 10,000-13,000 which includes all the major items like food and attire down to the little things like all my DIY items

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  • tking1286tking1286
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    edited December 2011
    We are spending around $7000.
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  • mb2712mb2712
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    edited December 2011
    Our final total will be between 18,000-20,000 dollars for our wedding this June.
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  • CLMaiorinoCLMaiorino member
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    edited December 2011
    Ours will cost around $20,000 including the honeymoon.  Our wedding will be attended by approximately 250 guests. 
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  • carajean22carajean22
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    edited December 2011
    We're planning on spending around $5000 on ours not including the honeymoon.  Good luck!
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  • Dominique1219Dominique1219
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_pennsylvania-central_wedding-cost?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:107Discussion:4f67b377-7716-4e6b-b08b-4627922a30c9Post:3fdb509e-0ae8-4ac4-afa1-2db5ffb5d1db">Re: Wedding cost</a>:
    [QUOTE]Our 10/23/10 wedding cost us about $17,000, not including our $3,800 honeymoon.
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  • SCBojangles1138SCBojangles1138
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    edited December 2011
    Oh bless your heart, sounds like you're using SAS. I hate that program.

    Anyways, I'm from PA but living in TN (wedding is in TN), but if you can use my data we're planning on spending about $8,000 for the wedding and $5,000 for the honeymoon.
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  • cashmerekissescashmerekisses
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    edited December 2011
    We're having 130 guests and our wedding will cost about $13,000 without a honeymoon.  I would think that the cost would vary depending on the number of guests.... would this affect your project?  Just a thought :)
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  • hollytrea80hollytrea80
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    edited December 2011
    Thank you so much everyone for the help!  This is great.
    cashmerekisses, thanks for the count. I had thought about that as well but since the comparison is from a sampling of brides to the national average, the count doesn't matter as much. I do plan however, on maybe doing a part that talks about influences on the cost and guest count is number one.  Maybe I can use the correlation coefficient to show the difference between guest count and cost though for extra credit.
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  • slpankuchslpankuch member
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    edited December 2011
    I'd say for a wedding with the average of 100 guests. 10,000 -12,000. Most places that do the ceremony/reception in this area, cost about 9,000 for rental, food, linens, service, etc. Then you have to factor in your other vendors.
    All 4 venues (including ceremony and food because that is what I wanted) that I looked were about 9,000 with ceremony, reception, food, rental of chairs, etc included.

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  • kathleenmaevekathleenmaeve member
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    edited December 2011
    150 guests, approximately $26,000

    not sure how advanced this stat class is, but be sure in your write up to discuss the fact that this is not a random sample- there are serious selection effects in terms of who is responding to your posting, where you posted with the question, etc. that will ultimately bias results. 

    also, correlation does not equal causation- if your class has gotten into regressions then i'd run a basic OLS and see if the coefficient on guest count is positive and statistically significant (i'd assume it would be).  however, you may not have enough data to provide other covariates in an equation so this point may be moot.  and, since your assignment is on standard deviation, it doesn't sound like a regression is necessary yet  :)

    i have super easy code to do all of this in STATA if you're using that statistical package. i have taken and TA'd A LOT of Ph.D. level stats courses both at Penn State and the University of Michigan so email me if you have questions! kathleen.maeve@gmail.com


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  • carrie&bradleycarrie&bradley member
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    edited December 2011
    we are planning on around 8000 not including the honymoon. And we are having around 125 guest
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  • keithandkristikeithandkristi
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    edited December 2011
    Ours cost around $17,000 not including our HM.  Which was around $3500.
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  • EmmaT683EmmaT683 member
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    edited December 2011
    Ours is between $8,000 and $9,000 for 70 guests. Not including the honeymoon
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  • nl9902nl9902
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    edited December 2011
    100 guests, $26,000, including the honeymoon.
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  • mommy0004mommy0004
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    edited December 2011
    Second wedding for both of us, about 85 guests, including our 6 kids, church wedding, small honeymoon (family's farmhouse and small town in country) reception in church fellowship hall, spending under $2500!
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