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How much does the average wedding cost?

I know there are a lot of statistics on the web right now but I would rather hear how much it cost all of you married people out there. Break it down to how much the main things cost you. Use this template to list how much each thing cost you: Wedding reception site: Wedding ceremony site: Wedding cake: Photographer: Wedding Dress: Tuxedo rental: Caterer: Wedding/engagement rings: Honeymoon: Limo service: Invitations: DJ/Music: Total cost of your wedding: What other costs did you have extra? If you didn't have all of these then you can just put $0 next to the ones you didn’t have. I am trying to do research to find information about wedding costs. Anyone willing to participate would be a great help and I would really appreciate it. I just want to know how much it is costing everyone else, no matter where they live but I live in Idaho.

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As a side note, you might want to add which city/state you're in. The averages are based on the nation, but I have found a huge price difference in (for example) California versus Texas. Here in Northern CA, we're having our wedding for about $4,000 for a nice semi-formal event. We found a great hotel locally with a beautiful outdoor ceremony area and nice banquet rooms, and with their restaurant catering a nicer buffet/carving station, that came out to about $2100. *Wedding cake is supplied by a friend/baker: $100 (I'm guessing on that) - painted foam "cake" with a small bottom tier blended into it for cutting and picture purposes. Guests have choice of individual specially-made desserts and/or a candy buffet. *Excellent professional photographer friend of Matron of Honor yet has done only a couple of weddings: $500 *Dress: $380 custom made (originally $750 version) *Tuxes: Unsure yet, as we have my fiance and our son who will be over 2 at the wedding. *Jewelry: $200 - I don't need diamonds :-) *Honeymoon: Unsure, though might go to a secluded spa retreat once our guests leave after our wedding weekend. That might be a couple hundred, though they mentioned working with us on honeymoon as we almost picked them for our location but we couldn't fit all our guests there. *No limos or special vehicles as we're staying at our hotel wedding location. *Invitations: $40 - Found cute palm tree "invites in a box" (complete with return cards, envelopes for 50 invitations) at Target and I will ad a few accents to personalize it. *DJ: $350 for 4 hours, $100 every hour after.
I have not had my wedding yet but I can tell you how much we have budgeted for our wedding next year. We are getting married Friday May 14th, 2010. It's still a long time from now but I have been doing a lot of research for the wedding and have done a lot of looking around to find good prices and to help determine how much everything will cost us. I will show you how much we are estimating it will cost us. We live in Pocatello, Idaho so this may help a lot! Wedding reception site: n/a Wedding ceremony site: $1500 Wedding cake: $200 Photographer: $1100 Wedding Dress: $1000-$1500 Tuxedo rental: $100 Caterer: $1000 Wedding/engagement rings: $7000 Honeymoon: $5000 Limo service: dont know yet Invitations: $500 DJ/Music: $650 (but we decided we are going to buy an iPod and do the music ourselves for $200) Total cost of your wedding: We are estimating the cost will come to about $20,000 to $25,000 after the wedding, rings and honeymoon. We are having a nice wedding though. Not a large one with 65-70 guests but we are booking nice things and having the better vendors. Some extra information that may help is that the reception and ceremony will be in the same location. We are not getting married in a church which I hear is super cheap, sometimes free. We are going on a week cruise to the caribbean islands and then we are going to stay in miami for a week after we finish the cruise because we couldnt find a cruise long enough and we want to take full advantage of my fiances vacation time at work. He gets 2 weeks. Our catering also costs a little more than the average wedding because we are offering steak, fish and pasta dishes that our guests can choose from and we are hiring 3 servers to attend to our guests and serve the food. So don't let my numbers scare you because you can cut the costs down with the buffet style reception or by just having drinks and snacks. An extra expense that we have that comes to mind that you did not add on this list is a videographer which will cost us $1100, the same as our photographer. I hope this information helps!
Weddings can be whatever you want them to be. They can reach a fair amount, or a resonable amount depending on how you done things. I live in the UK and my wedding cost about £5000, give or take. That was with us saving on things, getting them cheaper, and so on. My dress, I saw for £650, found for half price on the internet. Bridesmaid dresses were from a store and altered by a friend. Cake, car and flowers paid for by in laws. About £400 The reception, food and DJ were together. About £3,000. Invites, done by a friend. £40 for supplies. Decs, about £60 in total. I done them myself. Photographer, was my uncle. No charge. The men brought their own suits, Accessories were under £100 for all. Church fees £400 Hair, Cousin is a hairdresser Make up, Sister in laws mum offered. No cost Favours, gifts. £100 about. And so on. We saved where we could, used family, friends and anyone else who could help. So it is possible to make it a reasonable wedding for limited cost. Our wedding went off with NO hitches and we didn't use proffessional florists, make up, hair, invites, table decs, seamstress. If you want to save pennies, find friends, friends of friends etc to help if they have the skills and talents Good luck
In the U.K for around 60 people day and 90-100 night your looking around £12,000 Ive just got married so it's fresh on my bank statement!! Check out our wedding dance.... you might wanna do something simular!
I live in Oregon and have family that lives in Idaho and they had a wedding there, I am currently planning my wedding in Oregon and we are planning on having a 5,000 dollar budget for about a 100 guest it isn't going to be fancy but here is the breakdown Wedding Ceremony/Ballroom: 1500 Wedding Cake 300 Photographer 300 Wedding Dress (Custom made) 200 Tux Rental 100 Caterer (Family is making buffet style) 300 Wedding/Engagement Rings (will buy "real" ones later) 100 Honeymoon: 500 (Snowboarding on Mt Hood for a weekend) Limo Service: N/A (Might rent nice mustang and save lots of $$$$) invitations( plain white but with custom picture and writing) 50 Dj/Music 300 This only comes to about 3400 which leaves up a lot of ground to adjust and also I just noticed you didn't ask about flowers but what we are doing is DYI I am buy white roses in Bulk from samsclub.com and I am going to buy Calla Lillies for my bouquet and mix the two together for me and save hundreds of dollars Here are some tips: SEARCH high and low it is possible to have a fantastic wedding without spending a million dollars Make it the day YOU want don't go crazy because you think others will want you too look at theknot.com for more tips and ideas DIY somethings but not all it will kill you research places you can always find a great place hopefully the perfect place for the budget that you want keep looking high and low its there http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-planning/wedding-budget.aspx?cm_ven=Responsys&cm_cat=KnotNews&cm_ite=September%2004,%202009&MsdVisit=1 check online for your dream dress and have it custom made to fit you and save tons of money doing it BUT carefully check the return policy and the viability of the site and source great places vponsale.com and ebay.com store Ido365 and my family that had the wedding in Idaho did it in the backyard for 50 people and only spent 6000 or so and it looked like a million, so choose where to spend you money wisely and follow your heart!! FORGOT AN IMPORTANT WEBSITE www.annsbridalbargains.com
Wedding reception site: £1000 Wedding ceremony site: £250 Wedding cake: £30 Photographer: £50 - 50 disposable cameras for guests to take photos Wedding Dress: £150 - (coming from japan) Tuxedo rental/suit hire: £300 (For 4 suits) Caterer: Included in the wedding reception *Free* Wedding/engagement rings: £120 Honeymoon: £250 Limo service/car hire: £200 Invitations: £10 - just for the card, making them ourselves DJ/Music: £170 *** 2 bridesmaids dresses*** : £140 Total cost of your wedding: £2670 / $4,370
Avg. cost is around $25,000.00 for the whole nine yards! Wedding reception site: $3000.00 Wedding ceremony site: $3500.00 Wedding cake: $300.00 Photographer: $2500.00 Wedding Dress: $56.00 - off eBay Tuxedo rental: $200.00 Caterer: $6500.00 - 250 people Wedding/engagement rings: $25,000.00 Honeymoon: $7000.00 Limo service: included Invitations: $200.00 DJ/Music: $950 - 9hrs Total cost of your wedding: $24,206 without my wedding/e-rings
to hire site for reception- £500, included a marquee reception and games room church-£600 wedding cake £75 photographer £450 wedding dress got half price was meant to be 895 got for 395 wedding suits/morning suits £600 for six caterer- £1500 wedding engagement rings, don't know how much engagement ring cost but my wedding ring was 275 honeymoon £1200 all inclusive to a 5* hotel in egypt Car £300 invitations i made myself and saved 250 dj/music- friend did this for 90 Other cost thank you presents, flowers, center piece vases, bridesmaid dresses, paid for me and my bridesmaids hair to be done at the hairdresser, In the uk the bride pays for the bridesmaid dresses and hair, Name place cards for the table, Balloons, Our wedding was around 6000