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WE can all agree that we're frugal on this board, but how frugal were you when it came to your wedding? This includes any wedding/engagement rings, invites, wedding planning, etc... I don't need exact numbers but did your wedding put a heavy dent in your frugalness?
Nope. We did a wedding/reception/honeymoon we could afford.
I was young and my parents paid for the ceremony and reception, as was the custom at the time. Our honeymoon was a wedding gift from a family friend. My natural bent toward simplicity and frugality blossomed later.
Hubby and I were high school sweethearts and got married as soon as I finished college, so parents paid for most of it, but it was still really inexpensive. We got married in their backyard (big nice beautiful yard), our wedding cake was from Costco (much more edible), my uncle took the photos, the music was from some CDs I collected (it was 2000), officiator was a justice of the peace. We did have to rent a shade tent because it was about 105 degrees the day of the wedding. My dress was $300, our rings were the biggest expense, at about $1000 between them. Overall, for everything, probably $3000-$4000. We honeymooned at our family's cabin near Yellowstone, so only had to pay for a couple tanks of gas, and our food.
It was a beautiful day, and I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Nope.
For the judge n ministry, register, medical (bloodwork dunno why) and other basic requirements.
And a pretty expensive lunch for his mom n dad and us.
Been 20 years and we still happily married.
Cheapo marriage.
Had a friend married a couple months after us spending good money on lots of showey stuffs.. divorced within a year.
WE can all agree that we're frugal on this board, but how frugal were you when it came to your wedding? This includes any wedding/engagement rings, invites, wedding planning, etc... I don't need exact numbers but did your wedding put a heavy dent in your frugalness?
Our wedding was large and a formal wedding, but still done on a fairly small budget. Some things, we paid nothing for, other things were more costly.
-My gown was free (designer gown giveaway for military weddings), my spouse wore dress blues, so no tux rental or purchase.
-reception venue was cheap (we got married off-season, in winter, so deeply discounted), all-inclusive (open bar, dj, linens, emcee, table settings, photo booth, names on marquee - it was a former 1940s movie house- were all included in the price).
-Food was very inexpensive, by wedding food standards. We did buffet style, and had our favorite Kansas City BBQ joint cater it. So we had mountains of BBQd meat (three different meats, four different sides, and it was I think priced at 13 bucks per head.
-rings were inexpensive- we got matching plain gold bands from the Navy Exchange, tax free. Very simple and plain.
-photographer was a Navy buddy of my husband's, a combat photographer, lol. He did it for free and gave me all the photos on disc.
-flowers were very inexpensive, they were bunches of baby's breath.
-We didn't have a cake, because I hate cake.
-I made all the table decs and programs.
We spent under $4k. A lot compared to courthouse/backyard weddings, but pretty minimal for 200-guest, large formal weddings incorporating banquet venues. We had set aside $8,000, so came in well under budget. We used the leftover money on our honeymoon in Scotland.
You can obviously elope for the cost of a marriage license, if that's your preference . But, for a full traditional wedding with all the trimmings, we did well.
We had a more inexpensive type of wedding. It cost under 5K and this was over ten years ago. The only problem was that apparently a few people decided not to attend because they found out it wasn't going to be some huge, expensive affair.
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