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How stressful was/is it for you & your fiance? Was/is your fiance making things seems impossible because of money being limited? Please let me know if any of you are experiencing this. Cause I am! I’m so stressed and frustrated! I only have 2 more months and we’ve been planning since the beginning of the year but the budget is killing me softly. AHhhhh!!

It does make me angry that the wedding industry has become such a money making business that everyone has their hands in the bride’s pockets. And so many of the details are completely unnecessary, but people make brides think they are essential.

My best suggestion involves having someone who has some spare time and is dependable to do some legwork for the bride. This person can look at venues, florists, photographers, etc and get lots of time consuming running around taken care of. Then make a list and let the bride look at the 3-5 best choices and make a decision after speaking to the vendors she’s interested in.

It’s hard to not get so excited that you’ll order things that aren’t necessary, waste time on projects that won’t make a difference. I spoke to a young bride today who decided "to heck" with the fancy invitations. She and her fiance make beautiful invitations themselves. They are charming, show the personality of the couple and are true keepsakes. And they cost less than $1 each, plus postage.

By the time many brides get into the planning, they realize the money is running low because of things people talked them into early on. And that is what is so aggravating for people who’ve "been there, done that."

But please try to relax and enjoy the time until the wedding. Ask yourself "is this necessary" next time someone wants your money. You have to look out for you own budget. Vendors won’t help you. They’re looking out for themselves, at your expense.

I wish you the very best!!!

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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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I am getting married in Newfoundland, Canada. I live in Alberta and have no idea how much people usually pay out for a wedding in Newfoundland. Please help i need to set a budget.

I am in Ontario, Canada and can give you a rough idea based on my budget:
Really depends on the number of people:
Guessing about 150 guests:

Dress: $600 (if you find a quasi good deal- I paid $50)
Veil, shoes, jewelery etc- $300 (my veil was $120 and my shoes were $20)
Officiant- $300
Wedding license- $50
Flowers and decor- $600-$1200 (do you want BM bouqets? Floral Centerpieces? how big a bouquet for you- we did non-floral centerpieces and hair clips for the BMs and got it down to about $600 including the centerpieces and decor)
Meal- Full sit-down dinner about $40 per guest $6000
Buffet dinner- $20-30 (averaged at $25) $3750
Open bar?- I would guess $40 per guest- but not sure- our reception is in our parents backyard so we are buying $1400 worth of alcohol for 200 guests. Much cheaper if you can… if not about another $6000
Rings- $1000 or as cheap as $200- depends what you chose
Invitations, postage, RSVPs make your own- $400, buy $600-$1200
Grooms tux- $60-$120
Photographer $800-5000
DJ- $600
Cake- $200-600

We are spending $8,000 for 200 people. We are renting a tent for my parents backyard and getting married in a municipal park. We are having the ceremony at 7:00 so we don’t have to serve dinner- appetizers and beef/turkey on a bun later at night, my parents make their own wine, we bought peacock feathers for the centerpieces and decor from a local peacock owner for $.50 each. My mom is making our cake. There are lots of ways to keep cost down if you look for them

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We dont have many guests just close family members and a few friends. I live in US and I want my wedding be simple yet elegent and great. What are your thoughts?
To be honest im not american im russian and all are my husbands family so Im not really familar with prices my mother in law will take caee of everything but this is what we consider as our budget
I live in AUSTIN TX

Before I start, I ended up canceling mine & we got married by ourselves on the beach . . .

Our budget was $10,000 for 50 people. You need to start with the VENUE. That determines almost everything. For example, in order to stay within my budget I had to buy supplies to make my own invitations, menu cards, programs, etc. I had to search high & low for deals on favors, bubbles, matches, etc. With the venue we chose it was mandatory to use their DJ which was the most expensive DJ in town, their baker which was stupidly expensive, their florist, etc. Plus 20% gratuity to not only the restaurant but all vendors as well. Using that location forced me to cut back everywhere else.

$10,000 for 50 people would have got us a beautiful location, great cake, DJ, flowers, etc. Nothing over the top but definitely memorable.

It all boils down to how involved you want to be & how much you want to do on your own. 10K for 80 people will definitely not get you out of this stress free. You’ll have to seriously budget & do a lot by yourselves. Think about it. The photographer alone most likely won’t be under $1500. And that’s just the photographer.

Start pricing everything;

Venue
Ceremony
Officiant
Wedding rings & bands
Bride’s Dress
Bridesmaid’s dresses
Jewelry
Shoes
Hair
Makeup
Groom’s attire
Groosmen’s attire
Florist
Cake
Food
Favors
Photographer
DJ
Decorations (HUGE if you’re decorating by yourself)
ALCOHOL

You can always do a backyard affair with finger foods. It’s hard to tell you what a 10k wedding looks like without knowing what’s important to you.

Best of luck. We scrapped the whole thing & flew to Hawaii instead. We had our wedding & honeymoon for 5k.

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I’m getting ready for my wedding in six months, and was wondering, has anyone heard of this "first-time bride free-for-all"? It’s a program where your wedding planner provides the invitations, dress, bridesmaid dresses, tuxedos, food, the wedding cake, reception hall, music, all of that stuff, and they provide it all for free since it is your first wedding. My friend told me about it last night, and I have been searching the web all day, and can not find it. Can anyone please direct me on where to go to find this? Your help will be much appreciated.

Sorry hon, but I don’t think you’re going to find anything like that. I think your friend was either sadly mistaken or trying to pull a fast one over you. If it were true, all the wedding planners would go out of business since everybody would claim it was their first wedding.

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