Paying for your wedding?

JohnGalt

JohnGalt

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Can someone tell me how much did you guys pay for your weddings, how may people you had and how long the party was, and how good was the building in which the ceremony performed?

I am currently searching, part time (no date set yet), for a place to do the weding and at what cost the rent would come and the food for 100+ people.
 
Why not just get your "employee" to take care of all that?
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lol. If you re-read my last post I said, sometime during the relationship, you have to integrate the nice-guy routine.
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Wedding (very nice church) $250 + tips.
Organist 100+
DJ's vary $500 - $1000
A good hall with quality food including bar for 200 people $7000 - $10000
Don't forget about the reheasal dinner & flowers
If you are looking to save a little cash go with the standard bar and a buffet style dinner.

good luck & congrats
 
I'll rent you my backyard for $500, but there's going to have to be a keg for every 50 people, you have to have someone clean up and the first person that drops a cigarrette butt into my bouganvillas is getting his ass whipped!

Deal?
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Nope, no mice here! but we do have 3 cats (they keep the critters away)!!
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heck, we'll even get some friends to valet the cars! haha.. we have a guestroom that has already been dubbed "honeymoon suite 69" from another after wedding party we've hosted in the past.

ok.. our was approx $6,000 for the wedding/reception itself (everything inclusive) including: the chapel, photographer, videographer, flowers, music, minister, 4 course food/drink (including 2 free drinks for everyone), reception area decor & dance floor. it was a 20 minute ceremony with rat pack music (you can bring your own CD), 4 hr reception.

my dress, i found for $300, $75 for doug's tux, hair at the salon for us 3 girls was $150, napkins, invitations and on and on...

we paid $150 for elvis to appear and play 3 songs, do pictures & autographs for a good hr or longer. people still talk about our reception to this day!!

we paid $500 for 4 hrs worth of DJ/MC's.. They'd done so many weddings at the resort that we had no problems at all with anything...they did a great job of interacting with our crowd of 60 people.

all in all, We paid about $7,000-$8,000 total for 60 people, had it paid off in 6 months....Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas was THE best money we've EVER spent.. we saved most of our $$ for our 2 honeymoons...a weekend in Frankfurt, Germany & an Alaska Cruise at our 1 year anniversary.

Can't beat having 2 official honeymoons! I'm still pretty tickled on how much $$ we saved just so WE could have some fun!
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Tell him about our idea about giving everyone a disposable camera and how 'good' it worked!
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uhh yeah.. don't use disposable cameras! we had a few that disappeared with the "we'll send it in the mail" - never got them... and the rest either didn't turn out (too bright, too low light, too grainy) or were photos of the bathroom or people's tongues or just some really wacky stuff!!

just let your photographer do the work!
 
We did the disposable camera deal. It worked great! Most of the pictures we treasure were from the disposables. Now mind you, we had someone collect the cameras as the party was ending!

Most of them had pictures left on them so we used them on our honeymoon as well.

Ah ... back in the days of starving pilot wages ... Glad those memories are just that - memories!
 
well, i'm glad yours worked!! ours just SUCKED! all that money spent for the camera's and developing and we had so little to save!
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I tend to wonder if it's the type of camera or the expiration date or what it is that makes the camera's either good or bad!
 
Never give disposable cameras to a bunch of drunk ex and current Disney employees at a wedding reception. Most of the pictures Wal-Mart will refuse to develop.....
 
I'm shocked the 'good people' at Wal Mart didn't turn you into Powell at the FCC!
 
Yo dont worry about it, doesn't the bride's father pick the the bill for that? I hope my wife's dad does when that awful day comes. Just kidding
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Well it helped that our reception was in a church fellowship hall I guess - and the "champagne" was non-alcoholic.

That was kind of a downer actually, as I was hoping to have some drinks. I suppose that is why we got all the cameras back!
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Well it helped that our reception was in a church fellowship hall I guess - and the "champagne" was non-alcoholic.


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Yeah, our wedding & reception in Wisconsin were non-alcoholic. Any gathering that took place on church premesis (dinner was in the church hall) had to be 'dry'. Not too big a deal, as it was a small family-only thing, but it would have been nice to have a bottle of champagne with dinner. Oh well! We had a nice chilled bottle of bubbly for the hotle room at least!

Now the Chicago reception was another story......... Full open bar, paid for by us. Imagine 100 of your closest airline friends given free reign of an open bar for an evening.........
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Yo dont worry about it, doesn't the bride's father pick the the bill for that?

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Wedding (very nice church) $250 + tips.
Organist 100+
DJ's vary $500 - $1000
A good hall with quality food including bar for 200 people $7000 - $10000
Don't forget about the reheasal dinner & flowers
If you are looking to save a little cash go with the standard bar and a buffet style dinner.

good luck & congrats

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My wife and I paid for our entire wedding (minus $2000 from the folks) and walked down the isle with a $0 balance. It's the ONLY way to go!!

My advice: Save the $$$ on the wedding - elope, then go on a great honeymoon and have a party/reception when you get back.
 
Must not have been a Wisconsin Lutheran church because those people know how to throw a kegger!

I married one, I oughta know.
 
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