This assumes that you don't get it all back and then some though. Many weddings you come out financially ahead.
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Average Wedding Cost for 2018 Weddings: $44K
- Thread starter BWoog
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This assumes that you don't get it all back and then some though. Many weddings you come out financially ahead.
That is also true. And that being the case and seeing the numbers and projections I can see someone making that decision.
My comments were directed towards the average who may not be so advantaged and still feel the need to have themselves or family invest in the event without the payback. Which as subpar spatula said, may be a bridezilla or just young kids caught up in keeping up and going into debt from the social pressure
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Ya, I won't advocate someone go into huge debt or spend money they can't afford but I don't think it's a clear cut case where spending that much is a waste either. It all depends on numerous factors.
My fiancee and I've begin talking about our wedding, we've agreed that we'll spend more on the honeymoon after the wedding.
And we don't have really big families either so.
And we don't have really big families either so.
We're not gonna splurge, and our parents are only spending around $3k.
We told them not to spend much and use the money on something else.
Though the wedding will be at our $2.5 million home...
We'd rather save for some other property or take extended travel.
If you were able to self-fund a 2.5 million dollar home (that is if it was 2.5 million when it was bought) then I have zero idea how you're so rich that a 40k wedding is going to ruin your future property buying spree.
We want something small, we both don't like being the centre of attention.
If it was up to us, we'd have it even smaller.
It's our parents that want something bigger.
My friend had 3 weddings... :|
1 wedding they rented a whole theatre, had a ceremony there, and then performers...
I am from a culture that likes to throw big crazy multi day weddings(indian subcontinent). It's still fucking stupid and a waste of money and in my experience, mostly a pissing contest.
Hmmm. A survey by a wedding business company makes the cynical part of me think they're trying to normalize the increase (up from $27,000, apparently), so that people think this is the new 'average' and are more comfortable spending bigger amounts. I do think the wedding industry is a scam in many ways, but nothing wrong with a wedding you want/can afford, especially if you have a big family or cultural factors. Have no regrets for my wedding, certainly (though mine was much, much cheaper than their 'average').
Lmao, no thanks. Private ceremonies have never looked more appealing.
Invite your families to a potluck afterward.
Invite your families to a potluck afterward.
My wife and I hate large gatherings of people so we only did the town hall stuff and then invited my parents and the interpreter ladies to lunch in a nearby restaurant. Total cost maybe 100 €?
Lol my husband and I got married for around $68 at the courthouse. To be fair, we only had one person attending because we live in Georgia and gay couples getting married isn't exactly a cause for celebration.
Average Breakdown from experience (per day of event):
Venue: $35 per person (average guests: 200) = $7,000
Food: $15 per person = $3,000
Decor: $3,500
Dresses: $2,000
DJ: $500
Photographer: $2,000
Videographer: $2,000
Cake: $1,000
Entertainment: $1,000
Alcohol: $2,000
Invitation Cards: $10 per person = $2,000
Florist: $1,000
Limo: $500
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Total: $27,500
Honeymoon: $2,000
Wedding Ring: Priceless
I always tell people, take that $40k, put it as a downpayment for a house, and throw a huge wedding at the new home when you get the keys.
Venue: $35 per person (average guests: 200) = $7,000
Food: $15 per person = $3,000
Decor: $3,500
Dresses: $2,000
DJ: $500
Photographer: $2,000
Videographer: $2,000
Cake: $1,000
Entertainment: $1,000
Alcohol: $2,000
Invitation Cards: $10 per person = $2,000
Florist: $1,000
Limo: $500
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Total: $27,500
Honeymoon: $2,000
Wedding Ring: Priceless
I always tell people, take that $40k, put it as a downpayment for a house, and throw a huge wedding at the new home when you get the keys.
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My friend had a potluck wedding last year,
Had the bbq on for people that brought stuff to be grilled.
Was a pretty chill evening.
Hahahahhaha no
If I'm gonna spend that kind of cash, I rather use it towards buying another house and use it as a rental so it pays for itself + gives *me* money in the long term. I would be willing to spend a couple grand in a wedding, but nothing that tops, say, 8k.
If I'm gonna spend that kind of cash, I rather use it towards buying another house and use it as a rental so it pays for itself + gives *me* money in the long term. I would be willing to spend a couple grand in a wedding, but nothing that tops, say, 8k.
I'd say the average is at $30,000 if you add honeymoon and a cheap/parents' ring. But there's a lot you can cut down that you don't really need, but still end up getting.
We spent about $30,000AUD on ours in 2015. One of the best days of my life. We saved and we have about 130 of the most important people in our lives together. Absolutely no problem either way and I feel great for the people having $50 courthouse weddings too- to each their own (I'm sure there are things they buy that I find would be too much) but there's a lot of judgemental one upping of "OH YEAH? WELL I GOT MARRIED AND ONLY SPENT $10!" in the thread which is pretty gross. Let people do what they want.
Wife and I paid for licenses and went to courthouse. People are insane.
Wedding industry is a joke and I will never pay for this. I know someone whose parents in law payed like $50,000 for their wedding. Lol only like 30-40 people showed up too. They went luxury on everything. I mean yeah if you have the cash to burn go for it but for the average person, fuck that shit. Invest that 50k or use it as downpayment for a house.
I'm getting married next month at my county courthouse and it will cost me $89 for the license and ceremony. Of course it kind of helped that we didn't tell anyone.
Seen some bridezilla shows on tv. One thing is for sure, money cant buy taste lol.
lol we paid 100€. dinner with the family paid by the family
so we only paid for the marriage licence
44k...so much money
so we only paid for the marriage licence
44k...so much money
Like buying a Cadillac and driving it off a cliff 6 hours later.
Glad I got married in my parents backyard.
Glad I got married in my parents backyard.
In the UK if you're Asian it's about £30,000 lol.. well it doesn't have to be but unfortunately that's become the norm these days and the amount of guests is quite ridiculous... some have 800-1100. Not been to an Asian wedding where it was no less than 700.
yeah, this is insane. for 44k we can get a small parcel of land up here and have a tiny house built, Goddamn.
my fiancee and i are planning our wedding now, decided early on to go cheap and small and got some estimates down to around sub-$5k... and then she woke up one morning and was like, "naw, fuck it, let's save that money and really treat ourselves to a honeymoon". so we're having a close friend officiate, her husband take photographs, inviting our mothers, and our very closest friends (maybe six total) and just getting married guerrilla style among some New England forest ruins. we'll pay for dinner and drinks after and that'll be that.
Full disclosure though, i am going to splurge a little of my personal funds on a new suit (which will be entered into wardrobe rotation of course) and accouterments, 'cause, like... im getting married, too, i wanna look cool.
my fiancee and i are planning our wedding now, decided early on to go cheap and small and got some estimates down to around sub-$5k... and then she woke up one morning and was like, "naw, fuck it, let's save that money and really treat ourselves to a honeymoon". so we're having a close friend officiate, her husband take photographs, inviting our mothers, and our very closest friends (maybe six total) and just getting married guerrilla style among some New England forest ruins. we'll pay for dinner and drinks after and that'll be that.
Full disclosure though, i am going to splurge a little of my personal funds on a new suit (which will be entered into wardrobe rotation of course) and accouterments, 'cause, like... im getting married, too, i wanna look cool.
I love seeing cost breakdowns. It's interesting where the money/priorities are for different people.
For ours:
Venue: Location, food/drink package for 47 = ~$5000
Decor: $50 (venue was gorgeous so needed nothing and I bought materials to hand-make seating charts/photo wall, etc.)
Dresses: $300 (second hand shop + fitting)(bridesmaids could wear whatever as long as it was black)
Hair&Make-up: $200
DJ: $300
Photographer: $2,000
Officiant: Bottle of champagne (sister's coworker)
Videographer: $0
Cake: $0 (aunt is a pastry chef/wedding cake maker)
Entertainment: $0
Alcohol: Premium open bar included in venue package
Invitation Cards: $1.50 per person? = $75 (I made ours + cost of mailing)
Florist: $0 (I got leftovers from a florist and made my own bouquet/bridesmaid flowers and just scattered rose petals on the tables/cake)
Limo: $0
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Total: $8,000-ish?
Honeymoon: $3,000?
Wedding Rings: $300
I cut down everything non-essential and just put the bulk of the money towards the venue package for food and drink and the photographer. There are so many things you don't need that are peddled as 'essentials' like flowers or bridesmaids stuff or limos, etc.
Never been to an Asian wedding? That's low. Though times are changing, with smaller, more intimate weddings.
It's wild. We spent $25k or so for 180 guests. Sucked, but whatever. It was a good year for freelance for me and my freelance work covered the wedding and honeymoon. Got back close to that in cash gifts, plus whatever loot we got during the shower.
Wouldn't change anything about it.
For guests it was 60/40 my wife's side to mine. She has a big stupid family with thousands of cousins who aren't really cousins, her parents know basically everyone in their dumb city and they're all related somehow until you ask "how are you actually related to this person...?". I didn't invite much extended family. We have a lot of friends and a solid group of about 20 pretty close friends (inlcud spouses etc). We're lucky in that we have a lot of friends.
Wouldn't change anything about it.
For guests it was 60/40 my wife's side to mine. She has a big stupid family with thousands of cousins who aren't really cousins, her parents know basically everyone in their dumb city and they're all related somehow until you ask "how are you actually related to this person...?". I didn't invite much extended family. We have a lot of friends and a solid group of about 20 pretty close friends (inlcud spouses etc). We're lucky in that we have a lot of friends.
Yeah with such a low number of those surveyed it's bound to get pulled up by the people.spending $100k
