Weddings and how to plan them?

Question

From your experience, what would you change or remove from a wedding you have had/been to? And for kicks and giggles . . . what's the average wedding/honeymoon budget???

Answer 1

Planning a wedding is so much fun and you can save a bundle if you shop around and get creative. http://www.myweddingfavors.com/ This site here was a life safer because I think party favors are important and shows your guests your appreciation and this site has the most adorable and affordable ideas, so have fun with it!! :) You can also find some really good deals online for invitations. I got my designer wedding dress second hand so that saved a bundle and I got my flowers from a flower shop but bought the supplies myself and showed them what I wanted and got a major discount. I did red roses with pearl on sewing pins stuck in the middle so you could just see the pearls. Very elegant! :) For centre pieces I did not use flowers because that's where it gets expensive and we did oval shaped bowls with red sand and tea light candles which lit up the room when it was time for the dance :) and instead of an open bar we did up some alcoholic punch bowls and then a cash bar for other drinks and of course wine bottles at each table for the toast!! All up we spent $10,000.00 on everything except the honeymoon!! That includes a live band (cello, violin and piano) at the ceremony while walking down the aisle, limo and everything else!! have fun!!!

oh and make sure you have good music ..my wedding was a hit and I was traveling this summer and missed my friends wedding but my dad said it was a little stale and mine was so much more fun because EVERYONE was dancing. Play some classics for the older people and the young people can have some drinks and then play the new stuff after the older people hit the hay!! haha

Answer 2

The average wedding budget is aroud $25k in the US...and that doesn't include honeymoon.

My wedding was absolutely wonderful.  I wouldn't change a thing.  We had a backyard ceremony and made all the decor ourselves (my mother-in-law and I) and our cake was a gift from my husband's aunt...she makes beautiful cakes.  We spent (on everything, mindyou, including clothing, food, decor, EVERYTHING) $2000.  Our honeymoon was a gift, too.  My grandparents have a timeshare, and they gifted it to us at a location of our choice for a week.  We got cash for most of our gifts since we both had a house and everything we could possibly need x2.

Answer 3

Our wedding is in 5 days, which I planned myself. It is very small, we don't even have any guests, it's just 3 of us in it, plus our officiant.

I think maybe trying overly hard to get everything perfect is asking a lot of yourself in planning your own wedding, so try your best, have fun with the process, and remember why you are doing it!

     I moved from N.Y. city two months ago, to get married in San Francisco, and at first I planned to have a medium small guest list in New York, and after doing research on budgets, I learned that an average to high wedding in N.Y. city was approx.  $42 K. So that idea got axed pretty fast by my father!  

Answer 4

I went to a wedding that had a huge wedding party, the colors were boring, the slide show was a ok  idea but boring. The wedding was out of order and not organized.  Every one was talking about how bored they were.

I planned my entire wedding(Alone)  I didn't total everything up I just stayed on a nice budget.