How Much does it cost??

[catalicious]

I have been told so many different prices from both ends of the scale as to how much weddings, down to the finest deatils costs.

So if you dont mind sharing this deatil im sure alot of people would be interested to know how much it all costs.

We arnt engaged yet but we have already decided that we will get married on the 28th or 29th July 2009.

The main reason for that is that we cant afford one till then as we will be paying for all of it on our own.

SO if you dont mind sharing please do, it can be a something to something amount if you want just as a guide.

[catalicious]

Whao

[javalava]

Well we are having a traditional church wedding with a reception to follow with no more than 50 guests as we wanted to keep it to immediate family and very close friends only and we are looking at somewhere between $15,000 - $20,000

:yes: When i was looking at getting married (not bothering for now) thats how much ours would be. Depending on where we cut corners we could bring it down to about $13,000

Still a big lot of money for one day and a holiday if you ask me

[Lunar]

We had a very simple wedding, church and then a nice reception at a local club.

From my dress to the heart sprinkles we put on the tables the whole thing cost us $6,000.

Our day was not cheap and tacky but we cut corners in the right places so it was a very nice day. We had our wedding photos done as a gift. My friend did all our hair (she's a hairdresseer) as a gift, I did my own and both bridesmaids make-up.

We got a gift voucher for our invitations when we booked our wedding ($200 value).

We had 55 ppl at our wedding, just close family and friends.

[SilverStarfish]

Honestly, it costs as much as you are willing to pay.

For our day (http://www.faeml.com/wedding.htm) we had a nice, simple wedding with all the bits and pieces we wanted and the whole day came in under $3000 - including having my dress, the bridesmaid's dresses and the groomsmen's ties made.

That didn't include a honeymoon though, as due to family commitments at the time we couldn't take one :(

[Niki]

my dress and veil - $1000
bridesmaid dresses - $ 400
suit hire- $300
reception and ceremony at the same place - $1100
dj- $700
celebrant - $400
car- $150
thats all i have worked out so far :D

[BlessedWithBlue]

Well i have my wedding folder in my hands now lol so i will have a quick look and break it down for you! Ours is costing just under 5k all up.

Suit Hire- $190
My Dress and accessories- $300
Celebrant- $370
Hall Hire- $375
Jukebox- $300
Catering- $2025 (3 course meal for 60 people)

that is just some of the basic costs, we are having a beach ceremony so there is no cost involved besides the celebrant.

[Becteria]

All up our wedding cost under 10000 for 115 people, thats everything including the honeymoon to Azabu Spa in Byron Bay.

I have heaps of cheap cheap ideas if you want more specifics PM me.

I became addicted to theknot.com in the lead up - great ideas there!

[Starlet]

Ours will cost around $20-25k.

Apparently the average Aussie wedding costs $25k *shrug*.

[*Chels*]

We are getting married in just over 6 months,most people coming are from NZ so we chose to get married and have reception in the same place.
Reception is $125 per head which includes a 4 hour beverage package,dj,decorations and buffet dinner and dessert.
My dress is only $300,I dont see the need to spend more.
Im getting a plain cake and decorating with fresh flowers,plus Im gonna do all the boquets myself.
All up our wedding will be around $12,000.Thats not including honeymoon.Riley will only be 19 months so we will have a honeymoon when hes much older.

[catalicious]

Thanks everyone!!

When I was reading the one where people where listing the prices I immediatly thought ....but having a memorable day....PRICELESS!!

Couldnt help it, but its true isnt it??

We will have a few people coming from NZ, also as all of Dan's family (except immediate) live there.

I also started this thread cause I thought it might help others too!!

Awww so thoughtfull **Sigh**

[*Chels*]

Thanks everyone!!

When I was reading the one where people where listing the prices I immediatly thought ....but having a memorable day....PRICELESS!!

Couldnt help it, but its true isnt it??

We will have a few people coming from NZ, also as all of Dan's family (except immediate) live there.

I also started this thread cause I thought it might help others too!!

Awww so thoughtfull **Sigh**
Your wedding can be whatever you want it to be!!!If you dont want to spend heaps then dont but youve got like 2-3 years to save and youre only going to have one day!

[BlessedWithBlue]

Thanks everyone!!

When I was reading the one where people where listing the prices I immediatly thought ....but having a memorable day....PRICELESS!!

Couldnt help it, but its true isnt it??


It certainly is true!! if it were upto my df and i we would be married just on the beach with the celebrant and close family and go out for a nice dinner after with just our family, but ya know how families are and they pushed a bigger wedding on us so regardless we are gonna make the most of it and enjoy our day!!

[zada]

i think ours cost around $5000 (we didnt have to pay for it). MIL did the invitations, we had a celebrant for the ceremony in a garden, tea was about $40 a head, we had about 80 ppl, my dress was $400, we had a duo band. we didnt go on a honeymoon couldnt be bothered cos i was 8 months preg. Didnt cost too much but was a nice day. oh i got our rings when a shop had a huge sale on too. i think they cost $50 each.

[~mia&ryan~]

So far we are at nearly $12,000. I still have heaps of things to go, and that doesn't include the honeymoon. The wedding is next September so it will really add up by then.:yes:

[JordansMummy]

Well i have my wedding folder in my hands now lol so i will have a quick look and break it down for you! Ours is costing just under 5k all up.

Suit Hire- $190
My Dress and accessories- $300
Celebrant- $370
Hall Hire- $375
Jukebox- $300
Catering- $2025 (3 course meal for 60 people)

that is just some of the basic costs, we are having a beach ceremony so there is no cost involved besides the celebrant.

I love the idea of get catering in! Well thats what I was thinking when we get married (no date set yet). Weddings can be alot of money especially when we haven't bought a house yet. I think thats a priority but if we can get away with it costing less then who knows! Do you still have to get party hire equip to decorate the hall? And obviously they didn't mind you getting catering in? I haven't looked into it that much and am interested to know.

[sherryn]

Yes weddings may seem alot of money but you pay it all off so when you look at $15000.00 there is no way anyone want to get married.

Receptions are the big expence so you need to find a place with nice priced meals the average is $30.00 and upwards sometimes your lucky and get a bit cheaper, and you pay a hire fee and that depends on the place you go but thats anywhere form $150.00 upwards
but again that should be the first thing you do and start paying it off

Decorations are as cheap or as expensive as you want there are so many cheap ideas.

My church was $250.00 which included everything all papers and certificates and my donation


cloths is a price which you deceide how expensive you want

I hired my dress for $660.00 instead of paying $1300.00
and yes when you think of wearing someone elses dress yuck but mine came of the sale rack with the $1300.00 price tag and the lady told me i could hire it so it had never been worn.

The mens suits were $150.00 each to hire from ties to shoes

Flowers depend on what you want i had 6 fresh pink Tigerlillies which were $75.00
and my bridesmaids all had a single white Tigerlillie which was $25.00 but that was with greenery they were lovely
Mens single white rose for there jackets were $5.00 ea

Photographer:
Please do your research you can not fix your photos and make sure they understand what you want.
My photographer was $800.00 and she was cheap

Then there is the hairdresser which is around $100.00 i think mine was about $70.00 but depends on the hairdresser you choose
some also do a test run for you but that doesnt always mean it will work the same as on the day

cars arnt too prices all depends on what you want

and the rest are just nick nacks you pick up along the way really
Vails and nails and underwear and jewellery and the wedding rings and ring pillow and lingerie for the wedding night oh what fun i wish i could do it all again it was stressful but great

O yeah we stayed in a B&B on the wedding night which inc brekkie and i think it was around $150.00

And we honeymooned at daydream Island NTH QLD
which we payed off through the travel agent

i hope i was of help pm me if you have any questions
















I have been told so many different prices from both ends of the scale as to how much weddings, down to the finest deatils costs.

So if you dont mind sharing this deatil im sure alot of people would be interested to know how much it all costs.

We arnt engaged yet but we have already decided that we will get married on the 28th or 29th July 2009.

The main reason for that is that we cant afford one till then as we will be paying for all of it on our own.

SO if you dont mind sharing please do, it can be a something to something amount if you want just as a guide.

[mm85]

i read in a wedding mag that the average wedding is around 30,000 so thats what were going by

[mm85]

sorry didnt mean to repeat it i think i pressed the button too many times sorry

[aquarius]

our wedding cost approx $11 000 - $12 000 for about 60 guests in a beautiful 4.5 star hotel. we had such a great day and so many people said it was the nicest most relaxed wedding they'd been to so we didn't have to spend a fortune to have a fantastic wedding! the major things that saved us money were:

1) having a lunchtime reception. didn't need to hire dj, band or dancefloor! also people drank less than they would have at an evening reception - we went with a bar tab instead of a drinks package and it worked out much cheaper for us

2) using a photographer who supplies all photos on CD ROM in high res so i can get cheap reprints myself instead of having to order reprints thru the photographer which costs a fortune

3) having ceremony, drinks and reception all in the one hotel where we also stayed the night before so no need to hire wedding cars (also less stress on the day as there's no need to run all over town - the hotel even had a beauty salon where they came up to my hotel room on the wedding day to do hair and makeup!)

4) not hiring a function room and not paying a fee to book exclusive use of a restaurant. after our ceremony we had drinks in the hotel gardens, during which time we cut the cake and had speeches. then we went to the hotel restaurant for our lunch reception, we didn't have it booked exclusively for our wedding so there were other random people there, but the staff had reserved all our tables together in one half of the restaurant so all the wedding guests were seated together, not scattered all over the restaurant, and becoz we had already done the speeches and cake cutting earlier, there was no need for total privacy at the restaurant anyway!

5) doing the invitations, thank you cards, ceremony programs, placecards myself using a laser printer and nice paper from a stationery store, I was worried they'd look cheap but so many people said how swanky they looked so why bother getting them professionally printed, just DIY!

6) getting all the things I needed to make my bombonniere from discount stores not wedding stores (e.g. small glass jars for lollies, spices etc cost $1ea at a discount store, the same thing costs $3ea from a wedding shop, when you're buying 60 of them it adds up!)

7) not taking bridal magazines seriously - they are good for ideas, but don't believe them when they start telling you that you MUST have this or that otherwise people will forever remember your wedding in a bad way - that is cr.p and designed by them to make you spend more on stuff you don't really need! go with what's important to you!

good luck all you brides to be out there :wave:

[BlessedWithBlue]

I love the idea of get catering in! Well thats what I was thinking when we get married (no date set yet). Weddings can be alot of money especially when we haven't bought a house yet. I think thats a priority but if we can get away with it costing less then who knows! Do you still have to get party hire equip to decorate the hall? And obviously they didn't mind you getting catering in? I haven't looked into it that much and am interested to know.


Nope we are decorating ourselves and setting everything up the night before, i wanted to keep it simple so it won't be anything fancy but it will hopefully look nice once it's finished:thumbsup: The only thing we are hiring for the purpose of decorations is a helium tank for the balloons. We purchased little butterfly candle holders and candles to go with them as the cheap shop for the table settings and gorgeous big cherub cangle holders with candles for the bridal table as they match our wedding cake and they all were very cheap!! The bonbonierres i purchased little plastic champagne flutes off ebay and some jelly bellys jelly beans in our colours with tulle over the top tied with ribbon. Looks very effective and was cheap :D Invitations were purchased from ebay too!! I found ebay to very useful when it came to picking up bargains and bits and pieces i needed for the wedding. If we had the money we would have had it at a reception centre or something to that effect but we don't have a lot of money and already have 2 kids with 2 on the way so we wanted it to be more like a celebration of our families coming together rather than more of a formal occasion. We want everyone to enjoy themselves so hopefully it turns out to be a great day overall!!

[Evalyn]

I had the wedding of my dreams, well only because it was to who I was marrying with 160 and was pretty cheap because a lot of it I did myself and also had it on a Sunday which made the reception very cheap.

My dress, veil etc: 150 (was made by my aunt)

My 4 girls dresses: 160 (I bought ex hire dresses and got them fixed)

Car: 150 (I got 1 big car for all the adults and asked an inlaw to drive the kids around)

Photographer/Video 800 (I shopped around and got the negatives too)

Mens Suits 300

Stationary 75 (I made all invites, placecards myself)

Bonbonierie 120 (I made them myself, just bought figurines at a 2 dollar shop)

Honeymoon, used the frequent flyers

[Squiggles]

We racked up a lovely bill of $42,000 for 65 people :eek: if you include our honeymoon to NZ and our rings then it comes closer to $50,000 :eek::eek:

Our wedding wasn't extravagant - but I did have a simple looking but bloody expensive dress, DH had a bloody expensive suit and we chose a 5 star venue and had choices of courses for meals and our choice of wines instead of the package deal.

[Mrs J]

I am getting married at 3.00 pm this saturday the 28th october, here are my prices written down for u all we did a budget the best we could we also cut some corners but u just cant help the price everything is just so exspensive yes we could have cut more corners but that wouldnt have been what i wanted, im only doing it once so im doing everything i want to :cool: :cool: .. My wedding is a church wedding and a reception at a bowling club we have 108 ppl comming, everything is very traditional. There are things not added into the price just bits and pieces i kept adding that proberly add up to another $ 2000 on top, Inl invitations, place cards, hire treasure chest, toothpicks with butterflies on them, table decorations we made, scatters, bubbles, necklaces for the girls and there earings, um the ring pillow and fake rings hmm i cant remember anything more atm. :smiliedance:

My dress, veil, shoes, bag , jewlery etc:1300
My 4 girls dresses: 360 Each
Car: 800
Cake 450
Photographer 2200
Mens Suits 220
Church 800
Dj 300
Reception 3800
Flowers 660
Make up 45.00
Hair 65.00
Gasses 400
Flower Girls Dress 99.00
Rings 500
Back drop, chair covers, table swag, some candles $ 600

Bomonaires 400 all up they are hand made chocolates but they were gotten as a present for us, i go the tulles, ribbon, and thank you tags for them.

Honeymoon,500

I hope this helps some people, I cant think of anymore atm im to stresssed LOL im going to be a mess on saturday. :barf:

[defa]

i am geting married in Feb and i want an very easy going wedding NO stress...lol well i can try can't I..
Church $500
Reception $60pp we have about 90 people
Dress $1700
Bridesmades dress $450 went halfs with sister
Gus suits to hire $220
Photos $2700 doing our own album it is heaps cheper and you get the photo it it that you want and you can cover everything from wedding to honeymoon in album from Havey norman
Flowers $300
Hair and make up $100
Bonbonniere i got on ebay love herat chcolates they look really nice I got heaps of stuff off ebay haeps cheep to make the day not to much..

[aquarius]

I hope this helps some people, I cant think of anymore atm im to stresssed LOL im going to be a mess on saturday. :barf:

best of luck with your wedding hon and try and just enjoy the day coz it will FLY past and be over before you know it! have a great time!!!
:smiliedance:

[pickles]

We got married in Bali in 2001 September. We went ahead in Feb and completed the paperwork etc by ourselves ( with the help of our driver ). that holiday cost $2000 all up. The dress , flowers, reception ( for 40 people ), private villa and our accomidation / honeymoon came to $6000.
It was the best day ever with only our closest family and friends there.
Good luck
Pickles

[MissSparkle]

Im getting married on 3rd June 2007.
I'll break down what I have so far-

My dress&Veil- $4000
My Shoes & Accessories- $500
Bridesmaid dresses- 285each- $1140
Suits- $600
Cars- $440
Photographer (family friend)- $1000
Videographer- $1600
Flower- $800
Hairdresser- $470
Make up- $300 (estimate)
Invitations- $500
Bomboniere- $400
Wedding Cake- $800
Ceremony- $540
Reception180ppl @ $105pp= 18 900
Includes 3course dinner, unlimited drinks package, tea,coffee & chocolates, DJ and MC and getaway car.

TOTAL- $31 990

[cjb/jbvd]

to be really honest, your friends and family are there becasue they love you and want to see you happy.
they don't care how much the dress cost, they don't care how much the food cost and they don't care how much you spent on the decorations.

i'll never forget what my best friend said to me

"if at the end of the day, you are married to the man you love, then your day was perfect. all the rest you won't remember anyway"

and you know what, she was right. i never did get married, but her wedding was simple and heartfelt and beautiful because they were both so happy. that's all i remember about their day.

you do whatever makes the two of you happy. if that means you'd rather have all your bills paid, no huge debt to stress about, and maybe save for a deposit on a house then that's what you do.

[mum2bubba]

to be really honest, your friends and family are there becasue they love you and want to see you happy.
they don't care how much the dress cost, they don't care how much the food cost and they don't care how much you spent on the decorations.

i'll never forget what my best friend said to me

"if at the end of the day, you are married to the man you love, then your day was perfect. all the rest you won't remember anyway"

and you know what, she was right. i never did get married, but her wedding was simple and heartfelt and beautiful because they were both so happy. that's all i remember about their day.

you do whatever makes the two of you happy. if that means you'd rather have all your bills paid, no huge debt to stress about, and maybe save for a deposit on a house then that's what you do.


I agree, its what you make of it, you don't have to have a big white wedding because your family and friends want you too or you think they wont be happy, if your happy in your relationship (married or not) thats all that matters.

Grant and I aren't married yet, but when we do get married we would have (hopefully) already done everything we wanted (had kids, bought a house, worked on our relationship) the wedding is just the icing on the cake (pardon the pun)

[CJandMum]

We originally planned to get married in Fiji in March 07.. it would have cost us about 2000 US dollars and they do everything for you. Planning even the smallest details. Not including flights and accommodation.

However, we ended up getting married in America July 06 (where my family lives) and my dad planned everything and only spent about $2000 US for everything. It was a small ceremony with about 20 people and we had the reception in our back yard.. nothing fancy. It was small an intimate.. just the way I always imagined. I don't think you need a fancy expensive wedding to show your friends and family how much you love each other. I would have happily been married in front of a judge and signed a peice of paper but for the sake of family we had a small wedding instead.

Cheers:)