October 2012 Weddings
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QOTD 4/28
There was a segment this morning on the Today Show that said that weddings were getting more and more expensive... for the guests!!! They said that a couple will spend, on average, about $600 to attend a wedding not including a gift. The average cost for a member of the wedding party is about $620 according to the study that they are using.
Do you think that you spend that much on a wedding as a guest? What about as a wedding party member? Do you think that guests and the wedding party spent the average to attend your wedding?
Do you think that you spend that much on a wedding as a guest? What about as a wedding party member? Do you think that guests and the wedding party spent the average to attend your wedding?
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Re: QOTD 4/28
I think a lot of our guests spent a good amount to attend our wedding. We also got married in my hometown and all of H's family and about half of the wedding party had to travel.
The last wedding I attended as a guest, we each bought new outfits (mine was $30 thanks to being on sale and an awesome clerk who rang up a coupon, not sure about h's), gave them cash (somewhere around $100), and had to drive into our home town for the reception and ceremony. We at least got lucky that my parents were away. They let us stay at their house since it was minutes away from the reception venue. So at most, around $200ish.
Only two of my four bridesmaids went all out on my wedding day. Their dresses were 130. The money I got from them for the dresses went right back in to pay for their hair the day of--their's was $40, mine was $50. So, that equalled out to about $170? Maybe rounding it up to $200 with gas.
I think for people that are local that's a bit high. I think for wedding party that's probably pretty accurate. It all depends on if you get a hotel room, most weddings in my area have cash bars so if you plan on getting drunk it can get pricey. I think on average as a guest it probably cost about $300-$400 between gift, bar, and hotel/cab.
As a wedding party member, that's really low. The last wedding I was in I spend at least $1500 for shower, bachelorette party, dress, shoes, hair, make up... Not counting room and gift.
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Dulles or bwi? We've gotten good flights out of bwi.
What pissed me off was getting Jeff a flight from VA Beach to bwi. It was $400 cheaper to go up to Philly and back down. Wtf
We usually fly SW out of BWI, but United just started a direct flight from Dulles. It is more expensive, but we live seriously 10 minutes from Dulles.
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We've used delta for our honeymoon and sw to get Jeff home from VA.
I'll be asking you girls for help. My cw is getting married in MI next summer. I hope to go!
For our wedding, our wedding party (ie DHs brother) probably paid around the same but that included a $70 suit, flight and rental car for the weekend since they were driving across Florida to go on a cruise.
The other couples that came to the wedding, my parents paid their way so I wouldn't really know how much they spent.
For our wedding, we had a lot of OOT guests and I tried to keep costs as low as possible for them. The hotel ended up being about $130 a night and I fought and fought for a lower price, but the hotel wouldn't go any cheaper. I didn't want people spending a ton of money just to stay at our wedding.
Spent:
$50 dress
$130 hotel
$50 gas
$60 babysitting
$200 gift
$50 meals out that were not provided
$75 dog boarding
Sounds pretty accurate to me. I feel we did pretty good with costs here too, saving money by spending one night with a friend of DH, and my dress wasn't too expensive, plus I wore it last weekend for Caleb's baptism. We actually have a second wedding this weekend. It will be more expensive than the last one because we have to pay for an extra hotel room for my mother so she can watch Caleb while we are fine, plus DH is in this one and needs to pay for the tux. And this hotel has no fridge access for breast milk. I need to leave milk behind for the baby to eat while I'm gone...