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re: Married OTers: How much did your wedding cost and did you stay out of debt?
Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:38 pm to PurpGold 14-0
Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:38 pm to PurpGold 14-0
More than most, less than some. No debt.
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:42 pm to PurpGold 14-0
Wedding for 300+ people at the Audubon Tea Room. Her dad paid for everything he was supposed to and it ran him around $60,000. It was pretty lavish and he wanted to make sure we had the best of everything.
My parents paid for everything they were supposed to including an awesome rehearsel dinner and our honeymoon.
Will be three years in June and people still talk about our wedding. Was a great time
My parents paid for everything they were supposed to including an awesome rehearsel dinner and our honeymoon.
Will be three years in June and people still talk about our wedding. Was a great time
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 1/30/14 at 4:51 pm to PurpGold 14-0
a Tale of Two Weddings:
Elope at Sandal's in Jamaica: Free Wedding, $3500 for the week long stay, $1500 for airfare; divorced within 2 years... lesson: don't be a cheap arse, weddings and wedding budgets are a great relationship stress test. If it fails, you saved yourself a ton of misery.
Real Catholic Wedding in Church & at the Magnolia Ballroom in H-Town with 120 Guests: $35,000 for the wedding plus 2 weeks in Italy. Lesson: Happily married with a second baby on the way.
NO debt either time. Not worth it. Pay cash or go home; I paid for both and all related birth & divorce expenses. Always be a man and pay it yourself.
Elope at Sandal's in Jamaica: Free Wedding, $3500 for the week long stay, $1500 for airfare; divorced within 2 years... lesson: don't be a cheap arse, weddings and wedding budgets are a great relationship stress test. If it fails, you saved yourself a ton of misery.
Real Catholic Wedding in Church & at the Magnolia Ballroom in H-Town with 120 Guests: $35,000 for the wedding plus 2 weeks in Italy. Lesson: Happily married with a second baby on the way.
NO debt either time. Not worth it. Pay cash or go home; I paid for both and all related birth & divorce expenses. Always be a man and pay it yourself.
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:44 pm to Future_FlexZone
$750 but its only lasted 33 years so far. Oh and no debt. 
Posted on 1/30/14 at 5:46 pm to Future_FlexZone
My parents paid for both my sisters weddings. Probably close to $130k for both, but they were both pretty big 300+ guests, the Cathedral for both, one reception was at Gallier Hall and the other was at a private residence Uptown. There were bridesmaids luncheons at Antoine's etc. They were both extravagant but fun as hell. The live bands were great and I was 14 and 17 so the freeflowing alcohol was awesome.
They'll have to pay for my rehearsal dinner and honeymoon if/when I get married, so they can be assured of saving about $110k on me
They'll have to pay for my rehearsal dinner and honeymoon if/when I get married, so they can be assured of saving about $110k on me
Posted on 1/30/14 at 6:24 pm to Future_FlexZone
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FutureBillionaire
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Elope at Sandal's in Jamaica: Free Wedding, $3500 for the week long stay, $1500 for airfare; divorced within 2 years... lesson: don't be a cheap arse, weddings and wedding budgets are a great relationship stress test. If it fails, you saved yourself a ton of misery.
Real Catholic Wedding in Church & at the Magnolia Ballroom in H-Town with 120 Guests: $35,000 for the wedding plus 2 weeks in Italy. Lesson: Happily married with a second baby on the way.
NO debt either time. Not worth it. Pay cash or go home; I paid for both and all related birth & divorce expenses. Always be a man and pay it yourself.
Not at this rate, you're not.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 6:32 pm to lsuhunt555
FIL paid for our wedding. Spent around $25,000. He reserved a whole floor at one of the nicer hotels in Greensboro, The O'Henry Hotel,for out of town family.
Probably be his only wedding to pay for. Sister-in-law will probably never get married.
Probably be his only wedding to pay for. Sister-in-law will probably never get married.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 7:13 pm to i am dan
FIL foot the bill for our wedding of ~100 people at Houmas House. Kept it small because we knew it wasn't cheap and we didn't want a bunch of people there who we only saw once a year. It as close family only. I paid for the honeymoon and my parents paid for rehearsal dinner
Posted on 1/30/14 at 7:18 pm to CaptainsWafer
My in-laws are both doctors........so is my wife. No debt for wedding.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 7:37 pm to PurpGold 14-0
Her parents are paying most, mine are chipping in for odds and ends since its so large (300 ppl)
Posted on 1/30/14 at 7:53 pm to PurpGold 14-0
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How much did your wedding cost and did you stay out of debt?
Not gonna read 7 pages just gonna answer the question. Wedding was paid for entirely by ourselves. No help from any parents. Wedding cost a little over $10,000. Saved for most of it but had to borrow about $2,500 at the end. Everything borrowed was paid in full 6 months after the wedding. This was done on a combined household income of about $85,000 a year. Also went to Hawaii for a week for our honeymoon which was paid in full before we left.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 7:59 pm to PurpGold 14-0
Under $3,000 clothes included (no "wedding dress,", just a dress for the wedding).
We had friends and family help with food and supplies... Borrowed a PA for tunes, borrowed catering stuff... Had it at Mom's house, light decorations, coordinated but not fancy dress, withheld the word "wedding" from vendors, got a few cakes, no "wedding cake," did reception the night before at a restaurant in a banquet room buffet style...
Mainly, surround yourself with reasonable people, realize the food and music matters most to them, and they matter most to you.
Also, only invite the people who matter.
If the people in your life can't make your day, all that other crap won't.
We had friends and family help with food and supplies... Borrowed a PA for tunes, borrowed catering stuff... Had it at Mom's house, light decorations, coordinated but not fancy dress, withheld the word "wedding" from vendors, got a few cakes, no "wedding cake," did reception the night before at a restaurant in a banquet room buffet style...
Mainly, surround yourself with reasonable people, realize the food and music matters most to them, and they matter most to you.
Also, only invite the people who matter.
If the people in your life can't make your day, all that other crap won't.
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:01 pm to Negative Nomad
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You'll barely remember it anyway
WTF. I remember everything. I visited with every single person at my wedding and to this day people still tell me what an awesome wedding it was. People who are not familiar with Louisiana traditions in particular loved it. No expense was spared to make sure all of my guests had an easy and worry free trip that weekend and they haven't forgotten it even 5 years later.
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The only place I'd spend any real money is the photographer. I wouldn't spend more than 500
In 1950? Sure!
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:03 pm to 42
Fuuuuuck
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:04 pm to 42
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Under $3,000 clothes included (no "wedding dress,", just a dress for the wedding).
We had friends and family help with food and supplies... Borrowed a PA for tunes, borrowed catering stuff... Had it at Mom's house, light decorations, coordinated but not fancy dress, withheld the word "wedding" from vendors, got a few cakes, no "wedding cake," did reception the night before at a restaurant in a banquet room buffet style...
Mainly, surround yourself with reasonable people, realize the food and music matters most to them, and they matter most to you.
Also, only invite the people who matter.
If the people in your life can't make your day, all that other crap won't.
This sounds like a wedding for a pregnant 16 year old. Why not just do the court house and a party if you need to beg, borrow and steal to try and make it like a regular wedding?
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:06 pm to GRTiger
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Why not just do the court house and a party if you need to beg, borrow and steal to try and make it like a regular wedding?
believe it or not, some people have family and friends who actually like helping for stuff like this
we did almost everything ourselves for our wedding
decorations, food, cakes, my Mom made the flower girl dresses, my Dad built tables out of old barnwood, etc
It was featured in several magazines and wedding blogs. You can have a beautiful wedding for relatively cheap if you are creative and have style.
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:06 pm to Golfer
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But $4000 for someone to do bridal portraits, 3 photographers the day of the wedding shooting from when they get ready through the end of the reception, editing, CD catalog of the photos, and 2 photo books...isn't really that out of the realm.
THIS, and add on a couple hundred more for the engagement pictures.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:07 pm to GRTiger
Court House was like 50 bucks...
Party was around 5k, pretty good time. Parents wanted to throw us a wedding but we took the cash and went on a honeymoon.
Party was around 5k, pretty good time. Parents wanted to throw us a wedding but we took the cash and went on a honeymoon.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:11 pm to PurpGold 14-0
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How much did your wedding cost and did you stay out of debt?
What a tacky question. I have no idea how much my wedding cost. But since it was Disney World, my guess is that it wasn't cheap.
Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:20 pm to GRTiger
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This sounds like a wedding for a pregnant 16 year old. Why not just do the court house and a party if you need to beg, borrow and steal to try and make it like a regular wedding?
This sounds like someone who can't read or is pissed because they overpaid or don't have friends.
I know, baller, blah blah blah.
I'm sure there is other stupidity my mind just can't approximate. Pretend I made fun of that, too.
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