Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:LOL! Luke, do you realise how much weddings cost nowadays? The average (nice) wedding costs 30-40K. 99% of nice venues have a minimum number of guests, usually it happens to be 100, some say 150.
80 is a nice number, you just need to look harder if you want to do it with less, 3 years of working as an event planner (amongst other things) is proving to be very useful about now
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Food and beverage packages start at around 80 bucks per person for simple cheap stuff, up to 150 or 200... usually 100 bucks is alright food and drinks. That's already 10 to 15K cutting into your budget.
Venue hire, 500-1000.
if the venue you want is going to charge you venue hire on top of food costs then you are being ripped off, and when you point this out to most places they will drop it altogether. besides, winter wedding = much cheaper
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Wedding dress, 3000
there's not a snowballs chance in hell that my dress will only be that much,try about double and thats only cause i dont have 250k to buy the original
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Bridesmaid dresses, say 3 X 400 bucks
2x $150 - the internet is a wonderful thing
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Wedding bands, say 3K as well (we won't include he cost of the engagement ring)
shhhhhhhhh, the engagement ring magically appears in his pocket at the right time and you dont ask how much it was. ever. you just discretely go and get it valued for insurance. DAMN my diamond is big
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Limos, under a grand
for regular limos its about $500 for the pair, i'm not regular, its gonna be over a grand for wedding transport
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Wedding cake, minimum 800 bucks, up to couple of grand
and then you have to find a decorator who is willing to use the fruit cake your dad made special for the wedding, i can give you the names of 25 places in perth that wont, and my sister can give you another 50. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Photographer, 3K minimum if you want quality
Video, 1K
$500 max, but only cause i know the right people
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Church and priest (if you're into that), about a grand
dont know who you've been talking to, but catholics aint even allowed to charge AT ALL. having said this a token payment of about $200 and leaving some of the flowers behind is appreciated. and you gotta invite the priest to the wedding, who will then promptly drink the place dry so dont go for a tab. In my case i'm going to be forcing certain nurses coming to make sure that one of the priest's lives through the ceremony given that he's 93 and not doing so well anymore
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
Plus various other things like flowers
there goes a thou
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm: chair coverings (surprisingly some venues charge extra for that, around 3-5 bucks per seat), plus misc things, and there's plenty of them out there, go to any bridal expo show whatver, all those extra 'minor' details add up to a fortune.
so how many bridal shows have you been to?
Daniel Czechowski wrote on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm:
And the scariest part of it is, 30-40K you will only get an nice average wedding. Few friends of mine got married already. One of them spent 125K on his wedding (parents are loaded). It was absolutely beautiful. Another spent the average 30-40K it was nice, classy, I'd be happy with that myself. Then another spent probably 10 or 15K and mate it was a shocker, it just screamed cheap from every direction, it was downright embarassing...
But yeah, the $$$$ almost put you off from getting married hey! HAHA.
So Steph, when's the big date??
july next year some time ish, i need it to be cold because of how big and heavy and old fashioned the dress is.
for 30k i'll have the wedding and honeymoon sorted, it can be done without looking cheap but its a LOT of hard work and you really need to know what you are doing and what you want.
mind you if i went domestic for the honeymoon instead of overseas, and took the wedding out of perth then i could have a very nice wedding for around 15k, but there is still no way to get my dress made cheaply short of moving to thailand for 3 months and i haven't ruled that out yet!!