Can you say JEALOUS?!? I wish! If I can widdle down my guest list I may be able to stick to my budget of 13k...right now that figure is needin' some help!
Girl I am right with you Askalot, My venue alone is a little over 12,000. Not including dj, photographer, videographer, florist, limo, rings, honeymoon, favors, hair, dress, shoes, fh tux, bridal party gifts, etc....
I plead the 5th.... & I actually stop counting about a month ago. I am proud to say that we paid for everything cash, so we will not start this union with any more debt than we already have.
MzTajsia congratulations! Girl share your secrets.
We set a budget of $5,000 originally then it went to $10,000. After all was said and done, we actually spent about $12,500 in total (ceremony, reception, honeymoon, everything). I am grateful to the Master that we didn't go in debt or owe anyone any money.
Delight yourself in The Lord & He will give you the desires of your heart! Psa
Our grand total includes.
Invitations - done by myself
Stamps - paper-printing
Dress shoes undergarments wedding night attire
deposit for bridesmaids dresses and flowers
junior bridesmaid dress and shoes
photographer
reception site
guest passes for island residence
ceremony decorations
FH ring
Family medallions.
Wedding bouquets corsages and bouttinerres (did I spell that right)
Favors
Attendant gifts
FH parents are paying for our trip so that would have been an additional 6500 for six people for two weeks air-hotel-tranfers
WHOA HOUSE! Is your reception venue a popular place or is this around the price for reception halls in your area? I think I would have fallen slap out if someone would have quoted that price too me.
I had my reception at a restaurant (banquet room upstairs) which saved us a few thousand dollars. This is where we saved the most money. My husband's marching band hosts a lot of banquets there so we were able to get the "royal hook-up".
Delight yourself in The Lord & He will give you the desires of your heart! Psa
Where on God's green earth do yall live where things are so high?....LOL....I KNOW I would have been eloping if I had to pay $12,000 for just the reception venue.....I couldn't even begin pulling that kind of money from ANYWHERE.....but those of you that are blessed enough to be able to go there...GOD IS GOOD!.....yall betta GO 'HEAD ON!!!
Girl, in NY, everything's over expensive. That's why I'm soon headed a few hours away from you.
NY is ridiculously overpriced!! I got all of you beat I'm sure....everyone sit down before i drop the bomb!!
Ya'll ready? My reception venue alone's 24K. Now ya'll see why I'm stressed!! Justice of the Peace is where I should've gone!! I will NEVER do this again!
Anyone have oodles of noodles they can feed FH & myself? B/c that's all I can afford to eat after this one. :-)
OMG MrsRobinson you are too funny! Thank God that you can have the wedding of your dreams! God is good all of the time!
We had to cut the cost of our wedding because, we don't own a home or a car, so we didn't want to spend a lot of money on a wedding because we have some goals that we need to accomplish and we need money to do it. Also my daughter is going to college next year lawd hammercy -- I might need some oodles of noodles too!
Delight yourself in The Lord & He will give you the desires of your heart! Psa
Anyone have ooodles of noodles for Rhony's family & myself? We're both looking for some as of now. :-)
Rhony, you did the right thing as we don't own a home either & have between the 2 of us, 1 good car. But, God is good. Thankfully, we only do this wedding thing once (I Hope). I'm a firm believer that life's too short & you should live it to the fullest...even if you do go overboard for a few things. :-) You're never promised tomorrow, so don't put anything off or skimp on anything; including your wedding.
Okay,see Iknow I would have wentthe JOP or have to strangle my mommy budgetis 11,000 and she is still flipping out. SHe say she do have the stuff I want doneherselfalong with co-workers. I don't want her doing anything . SHe did thatforher wedding I don't want her doing it for mind.
Hey Sept...try adding babyfood to the list. It's cheap & filling. :-) I'm adding this to my grocery list along w/some oatmeal, farina, & cream of wheat. I'll buy enough for all of us. :-)
Off topic but whatchu' know about Farina? LOL I'm Liberian and we eat Farina, but I didn't think too many American people knew about that....are you from here?.....I'm sorry that stopped me for a second LOL....
OKAY, you're West Indian, NOW it makes sense.....I haven't had Farina in a long time!...LOL...that took me back for real...HA!...okay, back to the topic at hand.....
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From: Tallahassee, FL (Originally Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Re: Grand dollar totals
Posted on: 03/26/2007 04:31 PM
Our total is $10,000! Thats for everything and the extras (like my sister's dress, his brother's suits, taking my mom and sister to the spa the day before, even our gifts for each other and our Bridal Party, Parents, Pastor, Church, etc). And except for about 300.00 left for the hotel stay on the card, its all paid for, including the rings:)...CASH IS KING! We paid all vendors with either Cash, a Cashier's check or with our debit visa cards.
The reception and ceremony/photog/video/coordinator cost us about $6,000.00. We SAVED A LOT on photography, videography, and the reception cost/pp because we had a great coordinator who had the hook-up! The church was free, so we gave an adequate donation. The biggest chunk of our money went to the rings-which we paid off on our card in January before interest kicked in. The overall result of the event was probably worth twice what we paid so I give all praises to the MAKER!
well, we are at 10k now, and still climbing. lol. i dont know where all this money is coming fropm since i could barely scrape up the down payment for my house :) but He wants me to celebrate my nuptials so He is allowing me to have this affair so I am not questioning it just floating. side mention, even though people have been calling all day saying they must have missed their invite. noooooo. u didnt get one.
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From: Tallahassee, FL (Originally Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Re: Grand dollar totals
Posted on: 03/26/2007 06:24 PM
Its funny because our original budget was set at 6000.00. We just couldn't fix our mouth up to say more than 10,000.00. But secretly I knew we would....However, its always better to start scaling back, and going from there, instead of coming out the blocks fast spending all this money, and come up short or have to scale back later on, after you get your heart set on something, then realize you can't afford it...
I think its great that anyone can afford to spend as much as possible, but to me, as long as its worth that much to you in the end. I sometimes envy those who can afford to initially budget 10-15,000.00 and up, and thats a blessing from the Lord to me...but like I said, as long as it looks like you spent more than that, AND your result is awesome.....I have seen people spend like 40,000, and in 1 year they are divorced or like, they spend the same amount and they are in all this debt, or even still, they spend all this money and they end up HATING the wedding or its poorly coordinated and everyone ends up remembering the mess instead of the beauty, or get to appreciate the details that the money was supposed to cover.....
WHOA HOUSE! Is your reception venue a popular place or is this around the price for reception halls in your area? I think I would have fallen slap out if someone would have quoted that price too me.
I dont know exactly how popular my wedding venue is but,that was the cheapest price that I came across.
I know what you are saying ...I don't have it right at this very moment. Like you we are both saving and so far we half of that saved and a lot stuff we already purchased years ago when wedding businesses were going out of business. I doubt we spend even the half we have saved with the mother and godmother I have them ladies will find a deal if kills them. So I am going with the budget and no more I pray it will be less. We are trying to do both save to by the house and plan. I know the feeling about people spending all that money and then end up divorced a week later or the wedding look like someone just threw it together. My mom was in one of those wedding and she still ready to strangle the young lady to this day.
Don't you just LOVE those people that invite themselves to your wedding? I get the..."GURRRRLLLL I already got my dress!!"....well honey where do you plan on wearing it is my answer. Or I get "I'll be chking my mailbox"....it's crazy.....why do you think you are getting an invitation just cause I speak to you every once in a while at work. A WHOLE LOT of people are going to get their face straight BROKE when they find out they are not receiving an invitation....this stuff ain't free man!!
Soon...I soooo hear ya! My niece had the absolute audacity to get flam w/me b/c she tells me "I told you that I wanted to be in the wedding. I already bought a dress". SO, I told her to hold it for her own wedding...good luck w/that! People sure do show their true darned colors around wedding time.
All I know is...let someone show up that wasn't invited. I WILL see to it that their a$$ is casually escorted off property. If they don't want to leave? Well, hey..pay up!! They can pay for their own plate...that'll shut them down. I'm tired of negroes right about now, b/c they got some set of kahunas on them to even try.
See... ya'll are laughin'. There's 2 much money on this day being spent for these ungreatful, no home trainin' havin', ill-mannered folks to be actin' a fool!!
I'm gonna post my picture one day. Just in the event that ya'll see me on the news for an assault case in July. :-) My sistas can send me commissary.
SHUT UP!!!! I have a big family in Westbury! You may know them! Actually, I'm heading your way on Saturday because my uncle is sick. He lives in Westbury but he's at a hospital in Plainview (I think that's the city).
My total to date is $18,000, I know that sounds like alot but we have been planning this day for the past year and a half, we are getting everthing we want and have budgeted for it. I know by the big day the total will have increased.
I have told my coordinator not to let anyone into the reception that has not RSVP'ed. I am dead serious about it and don't care who dosen't like it. Like I have learned by visiting this site "My Day, My Way"
do what you gotta do! I feel you too, nobody's helping foot the bill, but they all damn sure want to invite themselves. I'll be having police detail, and I won't mind in the least to have them escort non-invited as well as anyone who over indulges in liquor, right on out of there.
Those uninvited idiots can come to my wedding, even my reception, but there azzzzz better not touch a piece of food because I am not dishing out any extra money. They better stop by White Castle drive thru and get a snack pack.
since my caterer has lost his darn mind with these fees i will personally put out the uninvited. all this is becoming ridiculous. this is my wedding not a three ring circus. like one of my friends told me stop trying to bend over backwards cause they want to invite pookie and dem :) u have not seen or heard from these people in years they just want to be nosy, criticize (?) and free eats. at these prices NOT GONNA HAPPEN
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