how much money you spend on your wedding just curios

[HannahP 119]

Court costs plus $200 for both of our rings.

We both wanted a BWW (it was the first time for both of us) but you just can't plan around the visa process so yeah. His parents have offered us $4,000 for a (late) honeymoon 'tho.

[Mrs. Disney 0]

thanks for the reply guys, was thinking is that included your wedding ring? i thin getting the gown at online store would be great and less stress..

No, not included. We spent about 250 for both of our rings. After the amount of money he spent on a platinum engagement ring, we just decided to go with white gold for the wedding bands. If you don't care for the platinum concept, you can save a lot. We found some bands for 60, 80 bucks, from a nice online store, they just weren't our taste.

[minnew 4]

My fiance spent about $2K on my engagement ring, but not including the diamond as that was a gift from his mother. The 2K was for a white gold bridal set so I already have my wedding band with channel set diamonds, and my engagement ring also has channel set to match. The diamond itself after looking at the appraisal was worth quite a bit, I was shocked! Enough to buy a decent used car! That reminds me I need to order his band! Which I think was around $500!

[minnew 4]

Damn I took too long to edit...

Just wanted to add:

The biggest bite out of our budget is of course the reception, no rental fees or minimum F&B revenues, but per plate its not too bad, we will be lucky if we have 60 show, but then there is alcohol, bottles of wine, soda, coffee, rental of a projector for our slideshow. The other big bite is photography and DJ which in total about 1400. We found a photographer that provides all day coverage for $700 with a CD in high resolution included, and online viewing for family and friends. The online viewing is very important to us as both of our families do not live in NE, and to be able to share pictures of the day. It will take us a while to decide which ones we want in a custom book or an enlargement, and have the $$ to do it with AOS, even then I can DIY the coffee table book on Shutterfly, and have it on our own personal website. The enlargements i can decide on later and they will be sent to a professional lab via the photographer.

[newlyweds 0]

this thread is def. helpful and very interesting

i definitely want an intimate wedding, gonna have it in a church ( not catholic tho as im an AOG goer) will have to inquire how much it i;

thinking of having my wedding gown made here; prolly spend about $400 on the dress and if i can have it done for less than $3oo would be awesome

wedding rings, prolly have my dad buy them, as he is in saudi, where jewelry is a lot cheaper! but still have to keep up on that coz he's so busy with work and all;

my boo's hometown is in PA, so we'll just have teh reception at a nice restaurant and about 10 people then Holiday Inn for the wedding night

we'll prolly look at less than $2000 for everything