How Much Did You Pay?

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Wedding cake?

Linda,
For flowers we are having Gerbera daisies for the ladies (Brides bouquet & 3 BM`s), boutenneries are Fressia (10 of them for the men), Larger freesia arrangement for the Mothers corsages (3 of them), and a flower ball of small daisies for my flower girl (total $350, my friend works for a flower wholesale company and is giving us a good deal, but I haven`t used very expensive flowers either). We also rented flower pedistals for the church and will bring them to the reception hall ($50).
Our photographer is $1000 for the "getting ready", Formal photos and the ceremony. I am not having him at the reception because it too expensive. Friends and family can do a great job of your candid photos. (this price does not include having the photos printed).
My brother in-law is a video nut and he is videoing everything for us for free.
Invites we got for about $450 (had a small company print them for us, but we saved money because we had to assemble them ourselves. Glued inserts into the covers etc.).
We are not having favours.
And we are not having a wedding cake because we get a full dessert buffet with our dinner and why spend $300+ on cake!.
Hope this helps.

Linda,
We are spending about $1200 on flowers and decor, we are only having a photographer, he is $1300, our invites were about $800 and favors about $500.
Hope this helps!

Flower decor - around $7,000 for all the bouquets, bouts, ceremony floral arrangements, chuppa flowers and drape, aisle decor (flowers, candles, fabrics)cocktail room decor, cake top and cake table, reception centerpieces, ficus trees and lighting, and all the candleabra rentals, etc.
Video - $2,000
Photography $4,000 for wedding day and $1,500 for the album
Invitations - Can`t remember. I think it was around $2000 for the invitations and all the inserts, thank you cards, seating cards, menu cards, ceremony programs
Wedding favors - didn`t have any

400 PHOTO, 200 FLOWERS, PLACE 4250 everything included(food, decorations, dj, minister, place to stay that night) dress 250 invites 130

450 for photos 400 for video 600 for decorations church and hall 300 for cake 300 for church I am doing my invites

Hi There!!
I am in San Diego and this is where we are at...
Flowers: $1200
Photography: $2400 (most important)
Invitations: $350 (white-wedding.net)
Favors: $2.00 each (small pewter picture frames)

I hope this helps. Have a great time!!

For three abstract, organic bougets (full of a variety of flowers) four boataneirs, one arrangement and two corsages. - 150.
For a wonderful photographer( three hours of service, two photographers at my ceremony, engagments picutres, and 70-100 proofs) - 550.
I am not having a reception, but for the rehersal dinner cake to feed 35 (with poured chocolate and three pounds of strawberries). - 65.
For seal and send invitations from Rexacraft for 75 - 150.
For fifty picture frames with an engagement picture in each, varring in size - 100.

My wedding is on a budget, but I am loving every decision I have made so far. You really don`t have to spend alot of money for quality stuff. The biggest thing that has saved us money is looking around. My favorite baragin was my wedding dress by Jessica McClintok, on sale for $142!!! Good luck on your wedding!

Don`t I feel cheap, lol. I am doing my whole wedding for under $500, not including the dress in which I am still searching for. I could not imagine spending 10`s of thousands of dollars for my wedding, of course if I had the money I Definatly would.

I bet you guys are going to have some beautiful weddings.

Brandy - i`m with you on the cheap side. I don`t know how much you have in your budget for the dress but I just bought a beautiful new wedding dress from Ebay for $250. Thought that might help you out a bit.

Flowers-500
Photographer-free my cousin is doing it.(he has a photography company and he`s employees are doing it.
No video
Cake-125.00 (from walmart)
Favors-80.00 were using wineglasses from lineans and things and making candles out of them
Invatations 35.00 from office depot

You dont have to have alot of money to have a beautiful wedding. I wish I could spend all that money too but i cant. Congratulations

Our site only costed 35.00 and reception site is 150.00

-flower decor? 1300
-video and pics? 2000 just for us on pics, top photograher is a must...its FOREVER
-invitations? 400 and 100+ postage
-wedding favors? 250 cute tins that said `mint` to be together - filled with mints of course

Cake? 240 some lady makes em at home it was the best. Ate the top after honeymoon, it was awesome

Flowers: $410-500 Roses at freshroses.com (for bouquets and centerpieces)
$170 for Cosages and Bouts.
Video: Home Video (no charge)
Pictures: $450
Invitations: $155-150 Seal-n-send invites from Rexcraft
Favors: $10. We are setting up an arch and taking pics of each family/couple. Pictures will be returned with Thank You notes.
Cake: $150.

Flowers = $9,500
Video = $2,500
Photographer = $4,500
Invitations = $2,500
Favors = Didn`t do them
Cake = $3,000

I spent around $2000 for everything, dress, tons of decorations, plants, tables and chairs, cake(250.00) You don`t have to spend alot of money you don`t have or will regret later. I bought alot of things on-line. The wedding and reception will be beautiful and I saved alot of money.
You can get some things at the dollar stores, bigg lots, decorationg stores. Just shop around for good deals. It`s just a little more time consuming but worth it!
Hope that helps!
Chris

Flowers/decor--$40 (ebay, walmart, big lots)

Video/pics-- $45 (I used to model, so my old
Photographer is doing it for cost of film)

Invitations--$12 (My mom is a "Stampin Up" rep, so we just bought the cardstock and vellum from a craft website and made them ourselves)

Favors--$36 (honey sticks from ebay, glassine envelopes from weddingtulle.com)

Cake--$100 (Publix--some people shudder at the idea of a grocery store cake, but my FMIL owns a restaurant and my FH is the chef, anyway, they do A LOT of wedding receptions, so he has sampled wedding cakes from all over this part of the state and he swears that Publix has the best cake.)

Dress--$10 ( It`s not a typical wedding dress, but it looks the part and it was the only thing I felt comfortable in. I found it at Ross on sale. Deaprtment stores at the end of prom season are a good bet as well. My best friend got hers from Belk in June for $40 and you NEVER would have known that it was a prom dress.)

Scary - I`m in two weeks and the bills just keep adding:
$3200 dress
$2600 necklace
$1000 earrings
$450 bracelet
$5000 photographer
$1800 invites, programs, thank yous
$5500 Live Band
$1500 Linens$30/Person bar, $27 dinner, $8 dessert
$3 per chair
And so it goes...

Flowers--$600. I was able to cut the cost by having my b/m`s carrying candles instead of bouquets.

Video/Photography--$2000. This was an area that I did not mind spending much on! I wanted to have beautiful memories for a lifetime.

Invitations--$1000.

Favors--$70. I am having white chocolate rectangles with an "H" engraved on them. They will be sprinkled in gold dust, and wrapped in plastic with our name and date on the wrappers. Cheap, flavorful, and cute!!

Flowers - $400
Photography and album- free, friend is doing it
Hairstyle - friend doing it for free
Wedding gown - $600
Veil - $40
Jewelry- borrowed
Shoes - $100
Favors - $130
Invitations $300
Programs - $10 (printing them ourselves)
Reception package including wedding cake - $2,200
Alcohol - $600

I don`t have my flowers completely picked out yet....but they are going to be 1-2 thousand.
My photographer does video and price includes 2--20 pg albums + a dvd of all pics and 3 copies of the video + 16x20 framed bridal portrait & engagement pics==$2200
My dress w/shoes, undergarments, tiara & veil was $1200
Most of the decorating for reception including flowers my aunts doing free of cost.
My church doesn`t charge.
My singers don`t charge (they`re related)
My cake I think is $200
My fiance`s dad pd for our honeymoon..it was like $1500

-Photographer 1550 (5 hours of photos + printed album and cd online of every photo, but not printing costs for photos.)
-venue (for ceremony and reception. On a sunday and before rates change. If you are flexible with your date, look at seasonal rates for your venue) 856
-dress 360 (don`t feel bad about looking at the clearance racks. The bridal stores should feel bad for jacking up the prices on anything that has the word "wedding" in it, and they are glad to make any sale. Also, places like ross, fashion shack, etc, are great places to look for dresses. It is surprising once you actually see what`s out there)
-catering - heavy horsedeuvres and carving station, 4 servers, and serving for the champagne toast (that`s the only alcohol we`re having which has saved a lot, and honestly, i didn`t want to have to worry about anyone driving home and getting hurt or crowd control on my wedding day) 2,200 (for 100-150 people) (ask the caterer to make you and the groom "to go" plates/baskets before the reception because most people don`t end up eating, or by the time they get to the food, their favorite chosen item is gone)
-Bridesmaid dresses (they paid for them) 140 each
- honeymoon - not set in stone. Looking to be between 3-4000, but it is a costa rica weeklong all-inclusive vacation
-haven`t done invitations yet. Going to use Office Depot
-Haven`t gotten a cake. Going to use Publix.
- Friend doing hair.
-Minimal jewelry
-no veil
-planning on wearing sandals
-planning on minimal flowers, something we can do $500 or less while still looking nice, probably potted on table instead of cut so we can plant them at our new home and fresh flower bouqets- (getting bright bridesmaid dresses adds to festivities, and you can use their bouqets as centerpiece at reception because who wants to carry them around anyways)
- also, look at some valentine`s day clearance things, like rose petals. They will be much cheaper after valentine`s day than a "wedding" section aka "we`re going to make this more expensive section"