This weekend, Joe and I sat down to go over our budget, or at least what is left of it. Our original budget was $30,000. I still think that is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a wedding, but alas, it is what it is. I'm hoping to recoup some of it back in gifts and start saving again. At this point, we are spending all of our saving. The only thing I can try to do is to not go into debt for this grand affair. So far, we have spent about $12,500, broken down as follows:
- church: $425 ($300 deposit and $125 for engaged encounter)
- Hotel: $5,500
- Photographer: $3,500
- Videographer: $500
- DJ: $300
- Dress: $1,300
- Invitation and other paper goods: $1,000
What we have left to spend, a whopping total of $13,500:
- Church: $800
- Hotel: $4,500
- Photographer: $1,750
- Videographer: $1,000
- DJ: $600
- Alteration: $250
- Flowers: $1,700
- Groomsmen shoes: $300
- Table runners: $150
- Cake: $500
- Make up/hair: $300
- Shoes: $100
- Rehearsal dinner: $1,000
- Joe's outfit: $500
I'm hoping that we can keep the spending at around $25,000. But I know things are going to come up that will just kill it. We are forgoing a honeymoon, which certainly will help our budget.
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