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[quote=Anonymous]No one can answer this for you. You need to figure out the maximum amount you can afford to spend, then figure out how much you want to spend (because those two things are not necessarily synonymous). If you have a decent amount of money and feel like you can't answer that question because you don't know what things cost, then you need to start looking at what you would consider to be acceptable venues in your area for the reception and look into how much it would cost just for the space and the food for 150 people. Then you can start to ballpark cost and go back to this question-- how much do we want to spend? Then you set a budget and start playing around with it.

My wedding dress was about 2k. My sister, whose wedding came about 15 years prior to mine, was shocked and thought that was an outrageous amount to spend on a dress. Out of my work friends (I'm a lawyer), it cost less than anything they would have even considered. And that is just the dress. You need to choose venue, food, drink, cake, flowers, entertainment, etc., and all of it varies wildly in price (common denominator being that anything to do with a wedding will have a price tag that would shock many). Maybe you have always dreamed of a tall fancy cake, but you don't even want flowers. Maybe roses are important to you, but you don't like dancing so don't want a band or dj or whatever. Maybe you want "the best" of everything and in your social circle that is important, or maybe you have zero interest in spending much money on a party that lasts for one day. You have to figure this out.

So, yeah. No one can answer this for you. The only certain thing I will say is this: don't go into debt over it. [/quote]

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