Brides Helping Brides ™ - Does anyone feel like this WAYYY too much to spend for 1 day?

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:43 PM

Does anyone feel like this WAYYY too much to spend for 1 day?

Or is it just me?

As it is I am having a small wedding and it is adding up so quickly! I can't believe how much we spend on 1 day!

LovelyL Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:47 PM

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umm.......yeah! HELL YEAH!

Lastminute Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:47 PM

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Absolutely...........100% ...having huge difficulties getting my head around this.....and know when its all over I will have had a great day but no matter how good it is it will never compensate for the fact that I would have preferred to elope....and the fact that we are moving into our new house at the end of the year and will be sitting on milk crates for the next 12mths while we save more money....***** but parents put the big guilt trip on me so here I am...........watching the $$$$ pile up and sucking it up

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:53 PM

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Posted by Lastminute

Absolutely...........100% ...having huge difficulties getting my head around this.....and know when its all over I will have had a great day but no matter how good it is it will never compensate for the fact that I would have preferred to elope....and the fact that we are moving into our new house at the end of the year and will be sitting on milk crates for the next 12mths while we save more money....***** but parents put the big guilt trip on me so here I am...........watching the $$$$ pile up and sucking it up

I hear you!!!!!!! So glad I am not alone here! When we first got engaged (last month), FH and I said we wanted a VERY low key kind of wedding, just immediate family & friends – we are saving for a house and that is SO much more important. Well one thing lead to another and here we are, having it in a hall. His mom and my folks are chipping in for the hall, which really helps. But there are SO many other expenses which are REDICULOUS! I just realized that between hair & makeup trials and the day of hair & makeup that I will be spending $400 just on that. Good grief! Limos for us is probably the biggest waste of money… but everyone does it right?

Sorry, I just had to vent… it is so much money for 1 day… it’s nuts.

bluesashbride Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:54 PM

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i've actually been really blah today because i think its all going to be anti-climatic.

melissaandsean Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:54 PM

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every day. every single day I think about this. And it makes me ill every time.

SomethingBlu Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:55 PM

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Posted by bluesashbride

i've actually been really blah today because i think its all going to be anti-climatic.

I agree...all this build up, then what?

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:56 PM

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Posted by bluesashbride

i've actually been really blah today because i think its all going to be anti-climatic.

good description for it.

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 01:59 PM

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Posted by melissaandsean

every day. every single day I think about this. And it makes me ill every time.

My Aunt sent me a book of wedding trivia yesterday. Americans spend $15 billion a year on weddings. and... there are 2.2 million weddings in the US each year.

The avg. cost of a wedding in the US is $28,000 - holy cow!

SomethingBlu Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:00 PM

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Posted by dleeny

Posted by melissaandsean

every day. every single day I think about this. And it makes me ill every time.

My Aunt sent me a book of wedding trivia yesterday. Americans spend $15 billion a year on weddings. and... there are 2.2 million weddings in the US each year.

The avg. cost of a wedding in the US is $28,000 - holy cow!

And the average cost of a NY wedding? MUCH higher than $28K...sickening!

MCDO15 Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:29 PM

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now that i experienced this first hand...let me tell you..its not even 1 day... it comes down to nearly a few hours and it will go by very fast!!

when your day comes, soak up every second of it cause you will miss it if you dont stop to look around

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:32 PM

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Posted by MCDO15

now that i experienced this first hand...let me tell you..its not even 1 day... it comes down to nearly a few hours and it will go by very fast!!

when your day comes, soak up every second of it cause you will miss it if you dont stop to look around

yea, I've heard that from a lot of people.

So, do you feel it was worth it? do you have any regrets?

hbradio Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:36 PM

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Yes but its a little late for regrets now. Plus we will have the memories forever....

103005FallBride Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:37 PM

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I could puke!!!
We sat down to figure out what's left to be paid...I just have no clue how we're going to do it!!!
FH is a car salesman and is going into 'overdrive' (no pun intended) to sell his butt off.
AND we're trying to do everything 'low key' too...even low key is too much $$!

MCDO15 Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:41 PM

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Posted by dleeny

Posted by MCDO15

now that i experienced this first hand...let me tell you..its not even 1 day... it comes down to nearly a few hours and it will go by very fast!!

when your day comes, soak up every second of it cause you will miss it if you dont stop to look around

yea, I've heard that from a lot of people.

So, do you feel it was worth it? do you have any regrets?

well...weddings are magical. they are worth every penny, every second invested into the event. could i have done something else with all that money... of course.. i would of paid less for certain things but overall, im excited our day went perfect in everyway.

my only regeat was that it was so short...so i would of extended the event by like 30 mins or so
and
i would seperate ceremony/reception locations (times) becuase its even quicker when its right in back of each other. i missed cocktail hour.. so during recpetion, i was busy collecting cards and saying hello.

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:43 PM

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Posted by 103005FallBride

I could puke!!!
We sat down to figure out what's left to be paid...I just have no clue how we're going to do it!!!
FH is a car salesman and is going into 'overdrive' (no pun intended) to sell his butt off.
AND we're trying to do everything 'low key' too...even low key is too much $$!

we're doing the low key thing as well.... it's still a lot. Oh well... you only get married once, right? That's what I keep telling myself to make it easier to swallow.

May05Bride Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:43 PM

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every day!!!!!

Mrs. dleeny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:44 PM

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well...weddings are magical. they are worth every penny, every second invested into the event. could i have done something else with all that money... of course.. i would of paid less for certain things but overall, im excited our day went perfect in everyway.

my only regeat was that it was so short...so i would of extended the event by like 30 mins or so
and
i would seperate ceremony/reception locations (times) becuase its even quicker when its right in back of each other. i missed cocktail hour.. so during recpetion, i was busy collecting cards and saying hello.

I'm glad to hear you had a great wedding (and congrats by the way!)

boobobunny Posted: Mar 30, 2005 02:49 PM

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As much as I am looking foward to this wedding...I sometimes wonder if I would have planned to get married on a beach somewhere....but then I remind myself that I have been planning this day since I was 6

Darcy Posted: Mar 30, 2005 03:02 PM

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It is so much money. I guess I did cut alot of money our here and there, but they are places I would have rather spent the money. Like my dress, or my hair, or my gifts to parents and attendents, or my honeymoon. But all this little stuff, like favors (which I love giving gifts but come on, they just got dinner) and RD cause we are paying for that, and just junk. Man, at this rate, I would have been better off just calling people to invite them to the wedding since no one responds with the rsvp cards.