How much did your wedding cost?

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[Post New]04/26/2011 22:31
Anonymous
Just the wedding - without counting rings or the honeymoon - about $16K in 1996 in the deep South for about 300 guests. We kept costs down (yes, for 300 people this is down) by not having it at my FIL's club, and I wore my mother's dress. We also did super heavy hors d'oevures (sp?) instead of a seated dinner and beer, wine and champaigne (no hard liquor - DH's family are Baptists). We had a band and a dance floor and partied until midnight, so we didn't feel like we were on a budget! I have already started wedding funds for my kids because I, too, thought the $50K wedding was the norm around here, and am so glad to see it is not!
[Post New]04/26/2011 22:35
Anonymous
50,000 in 2004. 300 people
[Post New]04/26/2011 22:35
Anonymous
About $10,000 in 2003 for 80 people at the Jersey shore. Not including rings and honeymoon. Dress was $300 at Nordstrom (not a wedding dress). Venue and catering was the most expensive element.
[Post New]04/26/2011 22:40
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:My ex-husband is a well-known writer (of formulaic crime fiction) and quite the swinging fellow in liberal New York society. Ergo, we were expected to entertain on a rather grand scale when we wed. Coupled with the divorce settlement, our now-defunct nuptials ended up costing him "an arm and a leg." LOL!


Just curious: Did your ex write a memoir about his divorce?
[Post New]04/27/2011 09:51
Anonymous
$35K, 2009, downtown DC for 100 people...and I was really proud of us for keeping it that "low". Now I feel bad after reading all the other responses!
[Post New]04/27/2011 09:59
Anonymous
$30.00
($20.00 for 2 blood tests + $10.00 for marriage license)
[Post New]04/27/2011 10:02
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I keep coming back to this thread and am honestly shocked, my honeymoon airfare alone cost 4k.


I thought the question was about the wedding. We spent $20,000 on the wedding day itself - dress, tux, reception - but it goes up another $8,000 if you include the honeymoon.
[Post New]04/27/2011 10:55
Anonymous
2006, in downtown DC (Georgetown/Dupont), $28k, 200+ guests.
[Post New]04/27/2011 11:18
Anonymous
45K including rings and honeymoon, 100 people in DC in 2003
[Post New]04/27/2011 11:21
Anonymous
Twenty or thirty bucks.
[Post New]04/27/2011 13:09
Anonymous
Outdoor wedding on the water in southern Va. for 175 people in 2006-48K at a historic house museum.
[Post New]04/27/2011 13:32
Anonymous
About $20,000 in 2000. The reception at a nice hotel was $10,000, the dress was about $2000, and the wedding coordinator was $1000.
[Post New]04/27/2011 14:07
Anonymous
$45K excluding rings/honeymoon in NoVa in 2002. 160 guests.
[Post New]04/27/2011 14:26
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I must live in a bubble delusional about this stuff because I figured the numbers would be far higher. I spent 5k on my dress alone and I thought I went on the low end of things.


I'm almost embarrassed to say my dress was also a little over 5K, and the wedding in Washington, DC in 2006 was about $150K for 150 people. My father paid for all of it. If I had to do it over, I would have chosen his other option of giving us the $150K as a down payment on our house, and having a smaller, simple affair.
[Post New]04/27/2011 14:28
Anonymous
PP here. Having said that, we had the BEST time at our wedding, and everyone still says how much fun our wedding was, and so I don't exactly regret it, but it is a lot of money.
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