Wedding - - - Lighting?

Question

How much does lighting for a wedding usually cost? Such as, twinkling lights behind sheer cloths, and twinkling fake dead trees... and what not. (Winter Wonderland)... do you know approxinately an estimate? Becuase the people I am going to see coming up soon won't tell a cost until they see the room and everything. I don't want to keep my hopes up if it's going to cost me a fortune. Well... my Dad.

Answer 1

Jeez, get lots of white christmas lights, that's what I would have done!

It'll look magical, and shouldn't cost a fortune.... Doesn't your dad have any at home (My family goes 'haywire' for christmas time decorating....)

And paper mache (thought messy) is not too hard to do... You'll need wire hangers and dark brown paint.... voilá, dead trees!

Have fun!

Answer 2

You (your dad) can expect to spend thousands on something like this. They have to see the size and design of the room before they can give you a price. Also, it's not just the lighting, it's the fabric that goes in front of the lighting to give the illusion that you want. I would estimate a minimum of $6000, but that's a very conservative estimate. My coworkers daughter spent over $30,000 just for the lighting and reception decor.

Answer 3

depends how much lights and what quality the sheets are and company if i were you i'd browse around ... i'm guessing around 5 thousand

Answer 4

We transformed a crappy school gym into a winter wonderland and it looked fabulous. Get people to scrounge around and give you plastic buckets. You will need one bucket for every 4 or 5 feet of the entire perimeter of the hall. Then go out to the woods and cut down equal height of full branches of trees or bushes - no leaves required. Buy white spray paint and spray all the branches AND THE PLASTIC BUCKETS. When wet, throw on some sparkle (craft store). Fill the buckets with fast-setting post concrete OR (cheaper) make a mixture of newspaper shreds and white glue and stuff it really packed into the buckets. Stick the bushes in while wet so it dries hard around them for a stable base. You could tie each bucket with a ribbon in your color theme if you wanted. Get cheap fairy lights ($5 a string) and put lights on each bush or tree. To save money (we did!) we borrowed white fairy lights from everyone we knew. they all had at least one string stashed in their Christmas decorations box. (Be sure to put a label on each one you borrow.) Even if you had to BUY the fairy lights and needed to spend $300. you will have a "look" that would cost $2000 from a decorator. If you can spend $350, I would even buy 2 pkgs (30 yards each) of white tulle from Michaels and weave it through the branches to connect your little forest.

So - check out the room, measure it, see how many trees you would need, how may strings of fairy lights, extension cords, pots, paint, etc. Figure on having a decorator charge 4 times what it wold cost for materials if you did it yourself and there's your ballpark cost.

Answer 5

Some of these things most venues have available as part of the venue fee such as lit trees.  I do decor and design and I won't give an estimate with out going to the location for th simple fact you have to make sure you can even do the lighting the couple wants in that location and you don't know how much you will need in the way of lights and supplies.  I have done complete Winter Wonderland wedding lighting for as little as a few hundred dollars all the way up to thousands of dollars.  It is all dependant on the location, what you want, what the venue can include in the venue price and how much you are willing to do or purchase yourself!

Answer 6

Nobdy can tell you anything about how much it will cost WITHOUT seeing the room.  It's just impossible to tell!  You don't know how many strands will be needed, if you need extras like extension cords because there aren't plugs...stuff like that.  It also depends on your overall design.  If you want "dead trees" literally made out of lights that will be much more expensive than if you do them yourself with supplies from the craft store and the woods then just kinda drape them.  Timing plays a part as well.  If you buy the lights now you'll pay a lot more than if you wait until the after Christmas sales start popping and you can get them for like 75% off or ask to borrow them from friends/and family who probably have a ton sitting in their attics/basements.  Then there's things like where you live, how long you'll have them, blah blah blah.

You'll have to supply more information.  But I will say I think 30k is way over estimating what it will cost.  Get your estimates from these people then call and get at least two more to compare them.  However, I would think 2 or 3k would be reasonable for what you are describing.