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Okay so I know some people want to spend 20,000 or even 50,000 dollars on a wedding i respect that but i don’t think weddings are about how much money you spend but about the love between the bride and the groom. well I was discussing some wedding plans with some family ( i’m paying for the wedding 100% on my own …..well with my fiance but my family is NOT helping) anyways i was told my plan would not work for the flowers because it looks childish and people will know i didn’t spend tons of money. My plan was my maid of honor who is my sister and a bridesmaid who is my fiances sister will bring down the sand for the sand ceremony instead of a bouquet. the other two bridesmaids will have a single flower. I will have a bouquet but made of fake flowers because i HATE flowers but still want a bouquet. someone so clearly started i will look like trash if i don’t spend at least 1000 dollars on my flowers alone. i ignored this and went on talking about my dress and showed some pictures , everyone talked about how much they loved until they found out i only spent 700 dollars on it. and then again it looked trashy? and too cheap, i guess i should be spending about 1500 on my dress and no less. here’s a link to the dress. I love it! http://www.romanticbridals.com/Dress.asp?ID=2124.
so i guess my flowers are too cheap and so is my dress. so we moved on to the invitations,menus,programs.and all that fun stuff, and when i showed them they talked about how wonderful the company that did them up ( my invitations and menus) did, how beautiful and totally me they were, until I explained I made them and again that makes them cheap and i should have paid someone to make them so they look better and more expensive i was told "you know some places will do them for 2 dollars a piece"
I also don’t want a cake, I hate the taste of cake its dry and gross my fiance feels the same way, we are discussing between having tarts, strawberry’s or something else. I was told yet Again without a cake it looks to cheap. my so called family proceeded to let me to have a "real" wedding i should be spending at least 30,000 dollars or my guests are going to feel as if they didn’t get what they deserved. I was also told i should buy the wine as a favour and not have my father in law make because i look cheap that way. Why are weddings all about how much money you can spend? and not about what really matters? How do i tell these people to back off? I don’t want to spend tons of money on a single day! how do i handle this? or is it more important to spend more? ( our budget is 8000 we refuse to go higher then that and have been doing really well with staying on track)
They funny thing is we are having about 80 guest serving a full meal desert and everything else except for booze! the meal is being catered by the venue we choose witch is a beautiful golf course.

stop giving them details. dont answer any more questions about price or even what anything is going to look like.

if anyone asks, say "you will see when you get to the wedding"

then just plan, and avoid giving any details.

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Writing a book. One of the characters has to plan a wedding in a month. It’s going to be at the person’s house. What would be an appropriate budget?

That really depends on your characters and plot lines.

Is the bride/planner thrifty? Would she shop at discount stores, thrift stores, mall stores, or really high-end stores? Does she like simple things or extravagant things? Will the wedding be a quiet affair with a handful of family and friends, or is half the town invited?

A wedding budget can be any amount of money; the amount of money spent on a wedding depends on the people getting married and/or hosting the wedding – their viewpoints and their circumstances. Therefore, the budget you’ll need for the wedding in your book will depend on your characters – their viewpoints and circumstances.

Helpful hint: Think of what elements the wedding in your book will have, and research average prices for those elements in the city or general geographic region in which that part of your story is set. Prices for the same items or services vary widely according to region.

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I want something that will be mailed to me, not that I print off. I wasn’t sure if there even was such a possible thing. Hence asking the question here.

Sometimes when you set up your registry the store will have freebies, including a planner.

For my planner I just used a calender/notebook combo I bought at Staples, I think it was like $6. There was a section with a calendar (and weekly pages too), a section for phone numbers, 3 blank sections, and 2 pockets. I practically slept with it.

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Please I need help! My fiancee and I are planning a wedding on a budget and I’m doing this mostly on my own. What usually happens at the wedding reception? I had sort of thought about not dancing, not doing a first dance at all, but I think I want to. I know I will not do the guarder toss but I would like to throw the bouquet and dance with my new husband and my sister who is the maid of honor would like to write a toast. So how does this go? In which order? Thanks so much!!!!!

1- cocktail hour
2- receiving line (optional)
3. 1st dance, parents dance etc.
4. dinner
5. toast and speeches
6. cutting of the cake
7, dancing
8. bouquet toss and GARTER tos9
9. last dance

Good luck

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It seems obvious to me that the "brides" are always going to rate the other weddings badly because they want to win the honeymoon themselves! And it seems like a totally unlevel playing field in the first place because they don’t have the same budget…

On the "celebrity" 4 weddings (last night) David Van Day spent £50,000! Surely his wedding should of won and been the best seeing his budget was twice that of the others? (More or less!)

At lest on "restaurant in our living room" they both have the SAME budget to start with, surely that makes it more fair?

Who would WANT your wedding be on TV like that anyway? Competing and showing off?

I watch this and to me it is obvious that some people are only going into the competition to show off and not because they cant afford a honeymoon – because there was a women who spent 40,000 on her wedding, she wasnt famous and so it was obvious she could have a honeymoon if she wanted one, she was purely showing off.
I didnt watch the one with this David but to be honest i like how everybody has their own budget because there are some people with a 3,000 budget who really want a honeymoon, competing against a person with a 30,000 who is looking to show off. I’m glad the person with the lower budget sometimes wins because it shows that money doesnt always buy you the best and gives the genuine person without money for a honeymoon the prize they wanted, instead of giving it to the person who could afford it without the show anyway.
For me, i would rather go without a honeymoon than have 3 other (sometimes snobs) criticising my wedding.

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