Wedding Question

dbucks · March 2011

Hopefully you can all remember, I'm helping out a recently engaged coworker.

What percentage of your total budget was ceremony/reception venue(s) plus food and alcohol?

maryandkirk0909 · March 2011

65%. Maybe 70%. I can't remember what everything cost anymore.

dbucks · March 2011

maryandkirk0909:
65%. Maybe 70%. I can't remember what everything cost anymore.

I know! Ballparks work. Basically she said 50% seemed like too much. I thought it seemed pretty spot on at minimum, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't completely misremembering.

sarges05girl · March 2011

I'd have to say about 75%. Really when you take out food, alcohol, and ceremony/reception venues, what's left? The dress, the flowers, the cake, the photos, stationary. Most of those can be DIY (and were for my wedding) and not as expensive as the stuff people will remember, like how good your food was.

YouandMe912 · March 2011

I'd def say 75%+. I think ours was probably 85% bc everything else was chump change comparatively.

Riss91 · March 2011

Mine was about 55%... but we spent a lot more on photography and our ceremony than most would. It would have been more like 65% if those costs were normalized.