So, apparently weddings can be expensive...

Elader Arkon

Elader Arkon

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Pasted from my post at Fansforchrist

... I just worked at a banquet in the Keeter Center (for some extra cash) that was a wedding reception. Very nice, a three course meal (salad, entree, dessert) and some other miscellaneous food items that were left around as 'snack foods'. White glove service, carefully planned and perfectly executed, the whole nine yards for a banquet at CofO.

This reception cost around $20,000 total (just under half of that was paid to the College for its services). This included food, limo, extra decor, band, and who knows what else.
But the thing was, it was only the reception after the wedding ceremony. I can't even begin to imagine how much the entire wedding cost in all... But I do know that just the reception alone cost about as much as 40 acres of land here in the ozarks.

Best thing that happened all night? The head manager of the entire event came within inches of tipping over the wedding cake as they wheeled it out to be cut... :D Some of the servers had to leave the room and go into the hall because they couldn't hold in their laughter.

So the question remains, how much would you want to (or did you) pay for your wedding events?
 
My parents paid for our wedding but we kept it really low key. The ladies in my church made the food and help serve it, we only paid for the ingredients and paper goods. Our grooms dinner was a picnic in the church's garden after the rehearsal. My dress was only $450 but by the time I bought everything to go with the dress and had it altered it was $1000 in total. So all together we only spent $3000.

I have always thought it was crazy to spend enough money on a wedding to pay for a house! :confused: Sure it's a special day but if money is the biggest stress on a marriage today like some say it is, having a small wedding and using the rest of the money to buy a house or at least a down payment would be a better start for a new couple.

Kel Queen of all Europe
 
Maybe $4,000? I paid for almost all of the wedding, since I was working thirty-plus hours a week; Paul paid for our rings and the honeymoon, his parents paid for the rehearsal dinner at Ryan's Steakhouse and the cake, and my mom paid most of the flowers and the reception food (the part that wasn't provided by the female friends and family). My dad paid for his tux, with complaints over the expense of it...

The wedding my parents could have paid for: Kool-Aid and PB & J in the backyard of our apartment complex, with two layer cakes by Betty Crocker. My dad would wear jeans with NO HOLES, I would scrounge up something, and Paul, with his own tux, would outshine us all.

Hence why I paid for it.
 
lol, i dont plan on a big wedding but then again it is a marrage bewteen TWO people. so i guess i really cant use my "im the man HAHAHA" thing with a clear conscience... DARN!

:p
 
Honestly... i would rather have a small wedding but a large reception... yet that is really up to my future wife. The wedding doesn't mean alot to me, honestly; yet i know the wedding always means alot to women.
 
It's one of those things......some people it's really important...others not. Somewhere is the middle sounds good.....i don't see spending tons and tons even going so far as to rack up a debt just for one day. Yeah it's a special day...no argument there...but I'd rather have the cash for a house or something then a really really nice party....
 
Hmm, I'm sensing a common theme here.

I really couldn't give a good estimate on the cost of our wedding, but I'm sure it wasn't too bad. My wife made all the decorations for the church and the reception. She also went out and got an assistant manager job at a bridal shop - employee discounts FTW! Her parents payed for the reception hall and caterer, a family friend. Our honeymoon was my parent's gift which included use of their time share. Overall, a little nicer than the ladder my father-in-law-to-be initially offered me.

I've definately been to weddings like you describe (I think that side of the family was a little annoyed at the "budget" wedding we had). As Kel said, the emphasis should be the marriage, not the wedding.
 
DZwart said:
I've definately been to weddings like you describe (I think that side of the family was a little annoyed at the "budget" wedding we had).
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Both of Paul's siblings had rather grand weddings for the income level of the participants. In part, I think it's a trend: his brother got married five years after us, his sister eight. Weddings are definitely getting more extravagant, but we had a very nice wedding at a greatly reduced cost. It didn't feel like a "budget" wedding, frankly.

The fancier weddings also meant my bridesmaid's expenses were a good bit higher than those incurred by my bridesmaids...think a factor of four, especially once you consider the ridiculous number of showers at which I was expected to give gifts. It's not very considerate of the bride and her family, but it's common.

But look at society: people are living more and more wildly beyond their means in every area.
 
Oh did you get that? when you were still in heaven waiting to be conceived, you were given a choice between having a good brain but pains to go along with it, or having strength, no pain, and no brain... :) obviously we chose the latter
 
yeah, ours was fairly cheap, i don't know how much it cost in total. i don't think i had to pay for anything out of my own pocket, my tux was free, (5 groomsmen, both dads, and 3 ushers getting tuxes makes for free for me) my parents and grandparents paid for the rehearsal dinner, and her parents did everything else.

and you can blame your dads for being a guy. ;)
 
sdenotter said:
Oh did you get that? when you were still in heaven waiting to be conceived, you were given a choice between having a good brain but pains to go along with it, or having strength, no pain, and no brain... :) obviously we chose the latter
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hmmm.... very interesting... again... i still go with the latter one.
 
sdenotter said:
Oh did you get that? when you were still in heaven waiting to be conceived, you were given a choice between having a good brain but pains to go along with it, or having strength, no pain, and no brain... :) obviously we chose the latter
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somehow I chose the first and still ended up a guy :confused::confused::confused:
 
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