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Captsarkasm Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:01 PM+

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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:01 PM

HELP!! Sample budget needed

Does anyone have a sample budget/breakdown of pricing for their wedding? IE: how much did you budget/spend on D.J., Flowers, Limos, Photo/video, Invites, favors, BM Gifts, extras??? etc... My FI and I have no clue what the going rate is for vendors and our first guess at a budget was WAY TOO HIGH. TIA

bride2b24 Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:04 PM+

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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:04 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

i think it all depends on what you want.....how big is your wedding? what style food are you going for etc........size of your BP.......those are all into consideration

Soon2BeMrsS Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:05 PM+

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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:05 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

there are a few threads were it says what we're all spending 60k, on the weddingchannel.com, they have it where you put in what you want to spend, how many guest, & the number of attendents

Vicky423 Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:07 PM+

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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:07 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

they also have a budget calc. thing on the knot.

camerakrazie Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:09 PM+

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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:09 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

you can definitely make it as much or as little as possible...I think most people are in between 40k and 60 k......ill probably be around 50-60 k on ours...but we are getting help from both our parents...!!! there are ways of cutting costs you just have to know where you want to cut them!!!

Captsarkasm Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:17 PM+

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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 09:17 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

We're looking at a wedding of about 225......most likely ** if everything works out** at the Crescent Beach Club... BP is 10 on each side..... type of food is not really a priority. I'm just looking for a rough estimate on the going rate for the different type of vendors. Thanks for your help.

LISA6569 Posted: Mar 21, 2006 07:53 AM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 07:53 AM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

YOU HAVE FM

bridy06 Posted: Mar 21, 2006 08:01 AM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 08:01 AM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

Posted by Captsarkasm

We're looking at a wedding of about 225......most likely ** if everything works out** at the Crescent Beach Club... BP is 10 on each side..... type of food is not really a priority. I'm just looking for a rough estimate on the going rate for the different type of vendors. Thanks for your help.

My BP total is 15 (without me and my FI) and our guest list is about 225-250. For A Summer 2006 wedding on a Sunday night- I think we'll have spent at least 50,000 after totalling it all - (without honeymoon).

RIDICULOUS>>>

Maybride07 Posted: Mar 21, 2006 08:24 AM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 08:24 AM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

Posted by Vicky423

they also have a budget calc. thing on the knot.

I second that!! I use it all the time!

Missladybug15 Posted: Mar 21, 2006 10:02 AM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 10:02 AM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

theknot.com has a good one too

SuzBride Posted: Mar 21, 2006 11:30 AM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 11:30 AM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

I think she is looking for just estimates on how much you budgeted (before meeting with vendors) for different vendors. Here are some of mine - I kind of stuck to them:

Flowers - $3000
Invites - $1000 with stamps, calligraphy, etc.
Limos - $600 (P/U and Drop off and Airport Dropoff)
Ceremony Music - $500
Photo - $4500 w/ Parent Albums
Favors - $5 per couple
Officiant - $500
My hair - $150 (plus trial cost)
My makeup - $150 (plus trial cost)
Honeymoon $5000

Parents Gifts - ???
Wedding Bands - $1500
Placecards - $100

that is all I can think of

Captsarkasm Posted: Mar 21, 2006 05:48 PM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 05:48 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

Thank you so much for your help! This helps more than you can even imagine. Our budget was just guesses which were way off **Thank god**

oOMarshmallowOo Posted: Mar 21, 2006 06:00 PM+

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Posted: Mar 21, 2006 06:00 PM

Re: HELP!! Sample budget needed

Posted by Captsarkasm

Does anyone have a sample budget/breakdown of pricing for their wedding? IE: how much did you budget/spend on D.J., Flowers, Limos, Photo/video, Invites, favors, BM Gifts, extras??? etc... My FI and I have no clue what the going rate is for vendors and our first guess at a budget was WAY TOO HIGH. TIA

You should sign up for theknot.com
That website will have an link to a budget spreadsheet for you. It's not going to be exactly acurate since everyone has different ideas for their wedding, but at least it'll help you start somewhere!!! It was really useful for me!!