We have to book and I'm worried

Thumballina Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:37 PM

We have to book and I'm worried

We want to try and book a hall in the next couple of weeks because of a few reasons
1. I work in the accounting field so I go into tax season officially at the end of Jan and have no life until April 15
2. Even tough we aren't planning on getting married until 06, we want to try and lock in a decent rate instead of waiting.
Anyway, what I'm worried about (besides not knowing a thing about booking a hall) is the money. We will be paying for everything ourselves. We've been saving for a year now and are continuing to save, but I'm scared that maybe the amount that we have saved now (it's a pretty decent amount) may not cover down payments.
Basically, what kind of money are they looking for when you book (price range)...I don't want to use it all up & then have nothing for everything else.I know this may sound stupid...I just stress easily and now that we have to start looking I'm worrying...on the finacial end.

Jen2999 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:39 PM

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we put a thousand dollars to book the date and have to give him an additonal thousand every 2 months until we reach 5 thousand... then the rest is due a couple weeks before the wedding

Jen2999 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:39 PM

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Oh and we also had to put 100 bucks down to reserve our church and I put half (500) down to order my dress

PrincessConsuela Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:42 PM

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for a hall the most someone wanted me to put down was about 1500 the least was 500. i saw 15 different places. all the payment plans were decent. Good luck

MsKitty1274 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:42 PM

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With our hall, they required a $500 deposit and monthly payments for 1 year until 1/2 of the minimum amount is paid. Then no more payments until just before the wedding.

orchid24 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:42 PM

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i had to give a thousand dollars deposit to book the date, then we pay $3000 every three months (X3). after we've paid a total of $10,000 that's it. the remaining balance is due around the time of the wedding.

Thumballina Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:45 PM

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I think I have to learn to not jump to conclusions to fast...you can't imagine the numbers that I was thinking
THANKS GIRLS

Bride2005 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 12:50 PM

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my hall required a 5,000 deposit.

gina&ken Posted: Dec 28, 2004 01:04 PM

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my hall required a $750 deposit, and a month before the wedding, we have to pay 75%.

Nora101004 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 01:32 PM

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Book a hall that has a low min, with a big room and can upgrade the package.

tourist Posted: Dec 28, 2004 01:45 PM

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I think we paid $2000- $1000 to hold the date & $1000 with the contract. The rest was all at the end.

Blu-ize Posted: Dec 28, 2004 01:46 PM

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We paid 800 at first then the rest the day of.

littlebookworm4 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 01:50 PM

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See I booked at the end of 2003 and I was able to send in small increments each month and it's really made a difference and I'm really less stressed. You can always try to do something like that. I've done it with all of my vendors.

hmm8191 Posted: Dec 28, 2004 01:54 PM

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We had to give a thousand when we booked in March of 2003 also VERY EARLY and then two thousand in May and two thousand in June. I think booking your hall is a very good idea. You're booking for 2005 rates and you have your largest expense figured out, even if it's only a rough estimate.

jennandrob Posted: Dec 28, 2004 02:08 PM

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A lot of halls have payment plans so its not too bad laying out a lot of $$ at first

LMFitz Posted: Dec 28, 2004 02:18 PM

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I paid 25% when I booked and signed the contract. I don't owe wnything else until 90 days before the date (at which time I owe 50%), and then the last 25% is due the day of.

They were flexible - I'm sure I could have paid less when I booked, but I just wanted to get a chunk of it out of the way.

nypdgirl Posted: Dec 28, 2004 03:11 PM

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WE got eng in may & fell in love with east wind so we booked it already. They wanted a dep of $1600 with 2 aug payments of 2500-3000, then the last payment is whatever the amount of people we have. Not too bad but we def need the help of my parents cuz of all the other expens. of a wedding......

LadyPrincess Posted: Dec 28, 2004 03:33 PM

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Posted by littlebookworm4

See I booked at the end of 2003 and I was able to send in small increments each month and it's really made a difference and I'm really less stressed. You can always try to do something like that. I've done it with all of my vendors.

this is what we did also

LuckyMe Posted: Dec 28, 2004 05:48 PM

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I know we were asked to put $1000 dep. on the hall and that small payments would be worked out for the balance. I have the same worries you do since we are also paying for the whole thing ourselves and Im in school fulltime right now.

dm24angel Posted: Dec 28, 2004 06:14 PM

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we had and still have NOTHING saved and we managed everything ....We booked with $1000 and paid $1250 every 3 months untill November and then the rest at the end ( about $5000-$7000 at end)