Wedding Costs

eastern11 · June 24, 2013, 11:19pm

Re: Wedding Costs

All excellent ideas! I particularly love the one about prioritizing your planning to see which vendors you absolutely must invest in and which things can be done less elaborately.

IMHO, a great photographer is most important and worth the splurge. After all, those will be your memories.
Do you need a videographer? Not so much.

Is it necessary to have lavish decor, an expensive venue, and a huge buffet menu? Not so much, I think.
Is it important to have 300 guests- which is quite a bit- again, not so much. Like Sehrysh said, cutting back on guests is the top and best way of reducing costs, and making your spending go further. You can do a lot more within a decent budget for 100 guests than you can for 300.

Consider lots of candles instead of flowers for your centerpieces. Wear a beautiful dress that isn’t made by a designer. Cut back on exchanging many gifts with your groom’s family.

As for your neighbour who had 1000 guests and only paid 27k, AMAZING! **How on earth did she manage that? A wedding that large in Toronto would easily be over $50,000.

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27K is in pounds which means about 42K in US dollars.