Wedding Budgets

So far we are not sticking to our budget, The RH itself is costing us the entire first budget we set for ourselves so we went back to the drawing tables and increased by $10k. I'm soo bad with budgeting, if I want something I go and get it and I suffer the consequences later!

But on the same token we have a good handful of people helping out here and there(ie. My parents thru us a suprise engagement party and my MOH is paying for our STD, My mom is paying for my dress....) Soooo hopefully if we get a little out of hand we won't be the ones to pay for it .

we didnt include the e-party bc my parents gave us that as a gift. Our budget so far is around 50K but my parents are paying the RH so me and FH have about 25K on us to pay....so far we're doing pretty good with that so far

that's not including my dress....gift from parents too (gotta love being the only girl) I'm lucky that my parents are so helpful

We wanted to have a budget of $20k and would love to stick to it (honeymoon being the exception). But the catering halls are killing us. We've decided to wait on them again. It's hard waiting, but I've called for dates this Nov, and you can't believe the savings, so hopefully we'll get a beautiful place. I'm crossing my fingers.

It's nice to know we aren't alone on the tight budgets. To us we'd rather put the money to our future. We want a family right away. Can't wait

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Posted by flairforfashion

We really do not have a budget. Our Parent's are paying for everything. Even the Honeymoon. I am very fortunate for this!!!!

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Wow!!!! Do your parents want to adopt a daughter?!

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Posted by mf2009

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Posted by flairforfashion

We really do not have a budget. Our Parent's are paying for everything. Even the Honeymoon. I am very fortunate for this!!!!

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Wow!!!! Do your parents want to adopt a daughter?!

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LOL, they have 4. I feel bad for my dad- having to pay for all these weddings. LOL.

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Posted by mf2009

Wow! Never mind four is more than enough! What a great Dad! I shouldn't complain cause my parents and FH parents are helping a lot. They just don't want us (or at least me) to continue to be spoiled! Cause lawd knows I am definetely spoiled!

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Nothing wrong with being spoiled!!!!

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Posted by mf2009

Wow! Never mind four is more than enough! What a great Dad! I shouldn't complain cause my parents and FH parents are helping a lot. They just don't want us (or at least me) to continue to be spoiled! Cause lawd knows I am definetely spoiled!

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haha you and me both, that's why me and FH are paying for a few things and theyre paying the bulk...theyre trying to unspoil me....if that's possible

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Posted by flairforfashion

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Posted by mf2009

Wow! Never mind four is more than enough! What a great Dad! I shouldn't complain cause my parents and FH parents are helping a lot. They just don't want us (or at least me) to continue to be spoiled! Cause lawd knows I am definetely spoiled!

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Nothing wrong with being spoiled!!!!

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That's what I keep telling myself!!Just trying to get FH to understand that!

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Posted by maggiejoe

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Posted by mf2009

Wow! Never mind four is more than enough! What a great Dad! I shouldn't complain cause my parents and FH parents are helping a lot. They just don't want us (or at least me) to continue to be spoiled! Cause lawd knows I am definetely spoiled!

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haha you and me both, that's why me and FH are paying for a few things and theyre paying the bulk...theyre trying to unspoil me....if that's possible

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yeah I don't think it will work. Cause everytime I look at something expensive for the wedding I keep saying to myself 'well if I can't afford it mommy and daddy will understand that its my day and I have to have it!' I'm such a brat!!!!

we are really lucky that my parents are paying for the wedding, and the fils are paying for the eparty and honeymoon.. my parents want to stay under 30,000 for the wedding.. and the honeymoon we dont want to go over 7,000 not including food since most likely we arent doing all inclusive.

so far weve been doing really good and staying on track. i hope we can keep it up

I didn't receive the budget until after i booked the Woodbury CC. My parents are budgetting us $30k and his parents are giving us $10k. That includes everything except our Honeymoon which we will pay for ourselves.

I have booked the RH, Photo and Flowers and i think i may stay within one thousand of our final budget if i ever book everything!

We made a budget and FH is A-N-A-L with money, so he puts his foot down when I start wanting to spend.

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Posted by curlyq4458

We are also on a budget. I have an excel sheet with everything we spent, and how much everything costs us. We right down everything we are spending. This seems to help us alot.

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We haven't done a budget yet - we just got engaged, BUT I love excel spreadsheets - FH thinks I'm crazy when I make up budget sheets for things, but they're so helpful!!!

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Posted by novia26

I heard somewhere that what ever your budget is, to expect to go over by about 10% of that ammount

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Yup we are almost there!!!

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Posted by WinterBride08

I didn't really create a budget, I just kind of told myself that I want to get the best possible deal on all of my vendors

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exactly... did the same thing LOL I know how much money i have to work with but im tryin to not spend all of it...