Budget

Im still 7 mths out so this could change but here is what its looking like as today:

Resort Costs

Ultimate Wedding Package$2650 USD

Reception (80 guests)$5100 USD

Flowers & Centerpeices$500 USD

Photographer $1200 USD

Hotel Stay$9,636.50 (two weeks in junior jacuzzi suite)

Neice Hotel $1,353.00 (paying for my neice)

Gift Costs

Gifts For Bridal Party $2,800 (14 total, $200 each)

Gifts for Parents$500

OOT bags (50)$1,000

Attire

Wedding Dress$100 (this helped out the budget alot! ha)

Dress Alterations$400

FI suit $400

Groom shirt, tie & shoes$250

Bride shoes & Jewellry$150

Wedding Bands$3,000

Bridesmaid Dresses$1,000 (dress from jcrew)

Groomsman Outfits$1000 (linen pants & white collared shirt from banana)

Total: $31,000 (approximately)

While incredibly useful (thank you so much for sharing!), this thread is super dooper depressing! Especially given the fact that I stumbled across it on a Monday. I think a big old glass of wine is in order when I get home!

- Jen

Wow - what a range in budgets! This is a big concern of ours... we are hoping to come in between 5 - 10 at the max including the reception(s) at home afterward. Guess I'll post back here when all is said and done!

I too have a goal of 5-10K for my wedding but that is proving to be nearly impossible. Some of the things pushing my budget up include the fact that I am paying for all 6 of my bridesmaid dresses (which will double as their gift) and the fact that I am having two ceremonies (one bengali one in Toronto and then my DW). The two ceremonies include two different outfits for myself and the groom and we will be serving dinner at both. I am also pushing for a higher end resort to ensure that my guests have a quality time. However, I may just dumb that down a bit to keep costs lower for everyone.

In any case, my budget is looking like it will be realistically between $11 - $13K CAD inclusive of taxes, gratuities, and all wedding related costs. The only thing not included is the cost of my e-ring at $3500 which came with a wedding band for myself.

My fiance and I are footing 100% of the costs and are not footing the bill for anyone else's travel. We are adding very little to no extras to our wedding packages for which the cost is looking to be between $2000-$3000 inclusive of a semi-private dinner and cake for all 40 of our anticipated guests. No excursions or group activities have been planned that cost extra (will just do dinner reservations on resort and/or do group resort activities part of the all-inclusive). We will do basic OOT bags. I have allotted money for videography and photography although I may get BIL to do videography and save money. No DJ, no ipod; may just go to the resort night clubs to dance it up. I will do my own hair and make-up (my hair is short so it can't do the fancy up-dos anyway, and I have enough make-up saavy family that I don't need to pay for this).

My bengali ceremony is probably the more fuzzy part of my budget since I haven't itemized pricing yet, however it is going to be very low key, private (<50 people), and prolly in my fiance's home so I don't see it running us more than $2000 inclusive of food (some ordered (~$300), some cooked by parents), decor (fiance's dad is pretty good with decor), drinks (non-alcoholic since fiance's family is muslim), outfits (~$720) and the Imam to do the ceremony (prolly $200-300). If there is room in the budget, I will "splurge" on someone to wrap my sari and do my make-up for $150, but I can do this myself anyway. My mom will drive me to his place and the ceremony will start

While I have definately cut out a lot of things that I would have liked to have added, my fiance and I also need to save for moving out of our parents home into our own and we need to buy a car. And, if I am honest, I may even choose to turn the DW into a honeymoon just to keep costs further down if I see it is getting out of hand.

Hope that gives some context to our budget. It is one thing to quote a number, but I think when you take everything into consideration (i.e. who is paying, # guests, what is included/not included) it is better appreciated.

Ouch...I'm in the very beginning stages so I'm not sure how much everything will be...I'm hoping no more than 10k.

Budget- around $10,000

flowers- ceremony and reception $1200

lights-reception-800

cake-$300

horse and buggy 130.

photography-1200

dvd-400

linens/plates 400

hotel-5 nights 1800 for two

marachi band.solist-1000

audio equipment rental with Ipod-300

bridal dress-1500

rental of deco funiture/reception/cocktail - 600

oh my gosh!!! I can't believe how much we spend sometimes. my budget is much smaller than these. I won't post it all here cause I've included it all in my planning thread that I'll post in a couple weeks since I'm leaving so soon!!!