Comments on: How Much Should You Pay For a Wedding?

By: Craig Ford

Craig Ford — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:48:23 +0000

I do think people often pay too much for weddings. However, someone could spend more than $150 and it still be a reasonable expense. But, kudos for doing it for so little.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:46 +0000

Weddings are a waste of money. The most you should spend is about $100 to $150. The cost of a marriage license and Preacher. My “wedding” cost us $100 in 1986.

By: Craig Ford

Craig Ford — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:33:44 +0000

Idreana,
Keep up the great work. I love how your keeping everything within budget.

By: idreana

idreana — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:52:43 +0000

I did the same thing! My dress was well out of our budget and I bought a similar dress, just as beautiful I might add, and my junior bridesmaid dress for less than $400! Although we have ten more months to go, we have already spent far less and have accomplished more in the last 8 months without skipping a beat on keeping up with our everyday expenses!

By: SoonToBeMrsN

SoonToBeMrsN — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:42:37 +0000

Such a wonderful article!! An hour after my fiance’ proposed, he asked if there was anything I wanted to do….I said yes, meet with a financial planner!!!! My fiance’ comes from a family where everything is done lavishly; whereas I am a frugal spender. With the help of the financial advisor, we convinced my fiance’ (very hard to do) that more isn’t always better nor does it make sound financial sense. We chose a historial site, thereby eliminating the need for decorations. We’re using the wedding coordinator to make announcements, but an iPod will play the music all night long. We opted not to have a wedding party- too much hassle! Wedding invitations were bought online from Ivandy at http://www.Etsy.com- very inexpensive. All in all (including honeymoon) is 10,000.00 from our own pockets.

By: pat hurtuk

pat hurtuk — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:13:59 +0000

i am observing around here living together. and the statement they will get married when they have close to 50 thousand for the party. So no Church needed, till then. In the meantime live together, have children, and have one b ig group of friends who are in same way

By: Andrew @ Financial Services

Andrew @ Financial Services — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:24:55 +0000

Thanks! This should prove to be useful. I am so lucky that my future wife is so understanding. I really want to give her a nice wedding but we don’t have the money and it wasn’t an issue at all with her, in fact, she was the one who suggested the simple wedding!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:54:49 +0000

Ditto “Headless Mom” — I think I spent $350 (perhaps less) on my dress, clearance, off-the-rack — the total included a fluffy underskirt that I don’t think I even ended up wearing. The only alteration it needed was to be hemmed slightly shorter. I remember that the bridal store was going to charge more for the alteration than the dress itself cost (they charged by the hour, and estimated that it would take many hours to alter). Since we were just talking a couple of inches, I declined (and bought a pair of almost-platform shoes for $10, which wouldn’t show, since my family & friends were insisting that the dress was actually too long); then my mom found out about a lady who did alterations, and I think she charged me $20 to hem it, and it didn’t even take that long!
.-= Kathy´s last blog ..Oh, WOW! =-.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:45:55 +0000

I love the fact that you got your dress in the clearance section! That would be a fun post- how much should you spend on a dress that you wear on one occasion?

By: Headless Mom

Headless Mom — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:12:11 +0000

We were married 12 years ago, and we never added up the total, and my father never asked how much anything cost. That being said? I was very careful in what I spent, how much things cost, and how/where I could get things less expensively. I even bought my dress "off the rack" in the clearance section. Perfect! .-= Headless Mom´s last blog ..Christmas House Tour 2009 =-.