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Average vendor prices in Vegas
I'm feeling overwhelmed with planning a wedding. It's so early in my planning process, that I haven't started calling vendors, but I would like to know how much the average vendor costs here for photo, DJ, and officiants (these are the costs I'm most concerned about). My budget is small, and with my fiance's guest list growing and growing like some uncontrollable behemoth, I'm expecting to increase the reception budget and decrease somewhere else, so I'd like to know where that might be possible.
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Re: Average vendor prices in Vegas
Married old Las Vegas hag groom - June 2011
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We're also talking a Saturday evening wedding here. One book I read says you can expect 20% of your guests not to show up. When all of your guests have to fly to your wedding as they will with us, does this number increase statistically-speaking?
Don't count on people not showing up. Do a poll to find out how many people had MORE than what they had counted on show up. Budget for your numbers.
Personally, I think you should invite fewer to give your guests more rather than invite a ton of people and skimp on the event.
Groom is going to have to either pony up more budget or cut his numbers.
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[QUOTE]My budget for everything is 10K, and for DJ I have allotted $500, ceremony $400, and photo $1000, but what I'm being quoted for regarding reception food (not including cake) is over my budget when you include tax and tip. I think my real problem is the groom wants to invite twice as many people as I want to, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to argue with him about it if I could take money from another category and pay more for the reception. We're also talking a Saturday evening wedding here. One book I read says you can expect 20% of your guests not to show up. When all of your guests have to fly to your wedding as they will with us, does this number increase statistically-speaking?
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Since you're already out there, have you considered a mid-week or Sunday wedding? Could save you quite a bit off Fri/Sat night prices.
Regarding guest counts, we had about 80% attendence and most of our guests came from Florida so I wouldn't count too many people out.
Married old Las Vegas hag groom - June 2011
Getting married in Vegas? Start here! [click]
Saturday evenings tend to be a little more expensive for venues from what I've seen. Ours is a saturday too. What is you guest list number looking like? I agree w/ Smokey, I would take a good look at your list and decide who really means the most to you two and who you really want to be there. It's easy to get carried away with lists if your adding anyone who has ever crossed your paths, like college acquaintances.
For photography check out Bentley & Wilson
http://wilson702.com/index2.php#/home/
Todd is well-known here on the boards and he does amazing work for amazing prices. We got our engagement pics with him and booked him for our wedding!
You can take it farther by showing how much this will cost per head and what you guys will need to save per month to make this happen.
Book Todd early. He's hard to get (I couldn't get him!) and has a very good reputation and prices.
Once you figure out your must have's and estimated guestlist then we can offer you more help too. But if you have a date in mind for Bently/Wilson - you should call him now, he fills up quickly. He was my first choice but he was already booked for our date.
Also check out the knottie list to get some ideas of where other brides have been too.