Budgets

[meeshie77]

That's very smart!  It made me feel more confident about our budget too.  Thanks JayKay!
 

Originally Posted by JayKay 

Our budget is $9K and after our travel and photographer it leaves us with about $3500.  I think that definately sounds reasonable!  We aren't doing anything really extra or going fancy with decorations or any of that to keep our costs down.
 

 

 

[torilynnsmith]

YAY! Glad to see this stirred up a little discussion.  We have budgeted 10K that includes our travel (flight and hotel) but no honeymoon the rest is all wedding costs.  Our reception/dinner is going to cost about 2k-3k we think with DJ and bar and everything, photographer is just under 3k (could have gotten carried away here) so now that I am breaking it down it doesn't seem like much!

 

We have done a spread sheet for 20/30/40/50/60 guests and comparing costs etc and we seem to be able to make it work.  I expect we will end up closer to 12k though!

[anichols8]

Where are you getting married?  I have a 12K max budget too that I would hope could include flight and hotel.  Anyone have a sample budget.  I seriously can't find one on here.

[Dominican Ally]

I've done up a budget, and including hotel/airfare, dress, rings, grooms attire, bouquets/boutiniers for 8 attendants, some minimal extra wedding decor, wedding package, legal fees, document translation, OOT bags, invites, STDs, etc. we are at about 12k for 30 guests.

[sosnowto]

Can anyone provide a sample budget? I am having difficulty finding one for destination weddings! 

[csho]

I am hoping to keep mine under 10K including travel and accomodation which I think will be easily achieved for us! Going to keep things simple!

[kard613]

We have a budget of about 10-15k including our travel and air and I'm confident we will come in under budget and still have a great wedding! It can surely be dond

[LoriGran]

Hello ladies, My FI and I also have a 10k budget not including our wedding bands. I'm also trying to include air/resort stay and everything else in the budget. I'm a little lucky because the best man is a DJ so we won't have to worry about, my brother in law is up and coming graphic designer so I will have him design my monogram he will also take our save the date photo and my cousin is a beautiful crafter and will make my invitations so I sure as hell hope to stay within 10k because we are planning to buy a house all in the same year as the wedding!! Aaah this is going to be some roller coaster!!

[missroxy]

I made one in EXCEL, I will try to upload it, you just have to put your own numbers ...

 

 

 

 

budget wedding.xls

[sosnowto]

That would be great! Thank you!!

 

We have have so many "stop-and-go" moments since our engagement, so this is the year to get the ball rolling! 

 

@Lori, you are VERY LUCKY!