"Rich Bride, Poor Bride"

Goldlie11 · December 2009

The wedding central channel shows old episode of "Rich Bride, Poor Bride". Last night's episode had a couple that went over their budget by around $22,00 (the original budget was $100,000). Tonight's episode had a couple on who went over their budget by almost $10,000 (original budget $23,000). WTF?

Sometimes FI will watch it with me and he just shakes his head. Our budget is $10,000. He basically told me that we definitely cannot afford to go over by $1. He really wants me to stay under and the $10,000 represents the very top of our budget.

Did anyone here go over your budget? (P.S. I'm not trying to pry, so definitely no need to share by how much)

pandasquishy · December 2009

We sure did but it wasn't anything as massive as $10,000 over budget.

ggmae · December 2009

Our last minute decision to go on a HM put us about $2k over our budget, but we had the money for it so it wasn't a big deal. We didn't need to take out loans or use a CC, etc. so it was okay in our book.

sucrets4 · December 2009

We didn't have a set budget - we discussed the big stuff and agreed on how much we thought was reasonable. Everything else came out of pocket, so it's hard to say if we went over. We didn't incur any debt, however, and we didn't spend beyond our means.

thesuninherhead · December 2009

Well, it really depends what you count as part of your 'budget'. If you count the rings and honeymoon, then yeah, we were over budget. That said, we were so happy with the way everything worked out that there wasn't an ounce of regret in having spent the extra (although that was only because we could afford to pay off the wedding fuelled credit card debt very quickly. We hate having anything on our cards, so it was stressful when we first logged on to see that! Thankfully, our cards didn't contain more than we could afford to pay completely). If we hadn't had the money there to pay them off, it would have been a different story (although, we wouldn't have put the money anything on there if we hadn't had the money to pay it off, so...). I don't think most people end up ridiculously over-budget, though.

It's the little things that add up, and to be honest, we were not super-careful (we were thrifty for sure, but not to the death so. We could have saved more if we'd wanted to, I'm sure).

fitnessgirl630 · December 2009

We went $1800 over budget which was not considering the entire wedding was $7800 (original budget $6K)

[Deleted User] · December 2009

So far, I've been pretty on top of the budget and we're really only splurging on things that are of utmost importance to us-but overall, I really hope if we do go over, it won't be by much-and definitely not double our budget!

lyndausvi · December 2009

We did not have a set budget. But yes we spent more than we thought we would have 15 months earlier, but we had the money so it was not a big deal.

RaiKai · December 2009

We did not officially "set" a budget, however did want to keep it quite reasonable and have a "range" as we are paying for it all ourselves (as many couples of course do these days).

At the end of the day, we will fall somewhere within our desired range and that includes rings, flights and hotel for weekend (DW). Surprisingly, it is actually our "wedding favours" that will eat up a good chunk of our costs (but that was one of our "must haves"). Hopefully we still end up closer to lower end then higher end. We are not doing a HM right now.

kristinanddan · December 2009

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_rich-bride-poor-bride?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1c764ba5-b7ab-425b-99ef-2922d621fa76Post:65624e1d-0b51-4ceb-b102-7cec242aaee5">Re: "Rich Bride, Poor Bride"</a>:
[QUOTE]We didn't have a set budget - we discussed the big stuff and agreed on how much we thought was reasonable. Everything else came out of pocket, so it's hard to say if we went over. We didn't incur any debt, however, and we didn't spend beyond our means.
Posted by sucrets4[/QUOTE]

We were the same. At the beginning of planning, I said: "I don't want to spend more than 20k". As we booked each vendor we decided what we thought was reasonable. In the end, we probably spent closer to 25, but it wasn't a big deal and we wouldn't have changed anything.

ring_pop · December 2009

We were originally going to pay for the wedding ourselves. But our parents weren't happy with the plans that we would have made with the amount that we could afford, so they each gave us a set amount.

So... our wedding cost more than what H and I spent ourselves, but it was actually under budget given the total amount of money in the pot. We actually still spent the amount WE budgeted, and refunded the difference back to our parents.

NuggetBrain · December 2009

I'm not sure if we're over budget. If you add in the stuff that my family and his family is paying for (which was a set amount), then yes. But if you only count what we are paying for, we're actually a little under budget.

angiebear11 · December 2009

Right now we have a set budget of 20K, but we want that to include everything (all vendors, the rings, the HM and miscellaneous items, etc.) so I have a feel we're going to go over. The only vendor we booked so far is the venue and that alone is costing us around 10K.

But that is why our wedding is a little under 2 years away. So we actually have time to save.

Lyss5782 · December 2009

I feel Ill probably be over budget. BUT we already own a house and don't have any credit card debt so as long as we dont go INTO debt, Im fine with it.

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