I now know what the $64,000 question is

Original post by HSsweethearts

Jun 13, 2011 11:53 AM

'Will you marry me?'

Our projected budget is up to $64K..

I like how we thought our wedding would cost $30K.

We're not even going crazy with anything other than the hall.

AudioLoveStory Posted: Jun 13, 2011 03:46 PM

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adelz Posted: Jun 13, 2011 03:51 PM

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I still can't believe how expensive weddings are, and ours wasn't near what a lot of you are spending either, but it seriously adds up - it's nuts! I'm so glad that now our pay checks don't have to go into our wedding fund lol.

Cataverri Posted: Jun 13, 2011 04:04 PM

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I spend just about 20K including HM. We got back 8K. .

I refused to spend an extra dime I think people tend to forget is more about the blessing and sacrament instead they focus more on the party and the extras.

If I could do this allover again, I would spend even less than 20k.

chreesta Posted: Jun 13, 2011 04:14 PM

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I feel your pain! We started at 40K and ended up at 60K!

MrsKon1111 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 06:40 PM

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Wow girls! i'm more like V i have a 15k budget with honeymoon and im right on track

Kelli218 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 06:48 PM

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Our honeymoon is $16,000 alone (without spending $$).... I don't even want to get into the cost of the wedding... AND we own our house, so we are paying a mortgage paying for our wedding!!!!!!!
AHHHHH!!!!

Ellynrose Posted: Jun 13, 2011 06:49 PM

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Ack - What budget?!

I had a budget for the hall, but then add on all the extras necessary. I'm afraid to add it all up - I don't even want to know~

MarryingMyBFF1110 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 07:38 PM

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Posted by MrsKon1111

Wow girls! i'm more like V i have a 15k budget with honeymoon and im right on track

Ours was 15, and we are around 20, NOT GOING ANY HIGHER. It's one day and I get to marry the love of my life. i don't really care about the rest. Ok, well I do, but I'm not going to go broke for it!

MNM0805 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 08:22 PM

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Is it bad that I never sat down and figured out how much were spending for this wedding?

leesah85 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 08:25 PM

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Posted by MNM0805

Is it bad that I never sat down and figured out how much were spending for this wedding?

MNM0805 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 08:32 PM

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Posted by leesah85

Posted by MNM0805

Is it bad that I never sat down and figured out how much were spending for this wedding?

I'm afraid to even know! I mean luckily we have our parents all paying for the people they are inviting. With paying for everything else, I can only imagine how much it all adds up to!

mthornton82 Posted: Jun 13, 2011 10:07 PM

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we went over our buget the day we signed our contract at JT!!

Hellosailor11 Posted: Jun 14, 2011 09:30 AM

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Posted by mthornton82

we went over our buget the day we signed our contract at JT!!

lmao, eventho its not really funny. At least we are all in the same sinking boat.

InLuvWithMyBF Posted: Jun 14, 2011 09:38 AM

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This post is a bit scary! lol

Our budget is 30 K and we are actually doing well so far. I think we are close to hitting it with everything (including honeymoon) AND we are having 225 ppl. lol We just really cut corners here and I believe the wedding will still fabulous! lol we're paying the wedding ourselves so we HAD to be super duper duper careful and disciplined! lol

VCanizalez Posted: Jun 14, 2011 09:40 AM

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Posted by MrsKon1111

Wow girls! i'm more like V i have a 15k budget with honeymoon and im right on track

=-)

We were around that too!!!
But then I wanted and Extra photographer... Xtra hrs of Video...
So with honeymoon, rings, Everythign is less than 20k!

Mel-N-Az 2011 Posted: Jun 14, 2011 09:52 AM

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We never really set a budget. We just agreed to stay in the 20-25k range and so far so good!

lisam1113 Posted: Jun 14, 2011 10:16 AM

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We're definately over budget too!! We wanted a great photographer, DJ, florist, limo etc.. So reviews over powered their prices LOL

chris1082 Posted: Jun 14, 2011 10:30 AM

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We never actually set a budget, or a number that we were not going to go over.

On the bright side of that, we can never get worried about going over budget.

MrsKon1111 Posted: Jun 14, 2011 11:22 AM

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Posted by VCanizalez

Posted by MrsKon1111

Wow girls! i'm more like V i have a 15k budget with honeymoon and im right on track

=-)

We were around that too!!!
But then I wanted and Extra photographer... Xtra hrs of Video...
So with honeymoon, rings, Everythign is less than 20k!

We were closer to 10K but then we decided to add on video...but i want a house also so i dont want to spend a fortune on one day

Moonmist09 Posted: Jun 14, 2011 11:29 AM

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we had a budget that was tossed out early on! LOL.
we ended up spending about $68K on the wedding and an additional $18K on the HM (can't wait to go on Saturday!)

We got back $35K in gifts. - at least we paid ourselves back for the RH and some of the vendors!