Budget breakdown: how are you divvying things up?

Our total budget is about 15000$. We are lucky that my parents are giving us some towards the bar costs (1000&dollar and his parents are giving us about 1000$ to put towards whatever we need it for the most. Otherwise we are covering all the costs.

For us, our biggest cost (about 40% of our overall budget) is food and beverages (about 7000&dollar. Then photography (2000&dollar, venues (1500$ total for ceremony and reception), dress & accessories (1500&dollar, music (1200&dollar. Everything else (flowers, suit rental, makeup, transportation, etc) totals about 2500$. We are not including our honeymoon in our budget.

My fiance and I are having a small wedding. Food will probably be the most.
Then pictures . Then booze
Ceremony will be held in our backyard.

Venue was our biggest splurge. Everythong else was less expensive.

View quoted message Ya... We haven't put a budget on the honeymoon... We basically decided with the insane housing market that we cant afford to buy so we are dipping into our down payment savings to go travel while we can.
Our wedding will be under $10,000 total... And im hoping the honeymoon wont be more than another $10,000 or so but i also have no realistic idea of what it will cost.

The reception cost us almost 50% of the total estimated. My dress was a good 20% and my partner’s suit, shirt and accessories was another 10%. 5% also went to our wedding bands. Favours and flowers will be another 10% (estimated) and the rest hair and make up.

View quoted message I definitely want to spend the majority on my honeymoon. Europe was my choice too. But I'm having some difficulty trying to figure out where I should spend my money and how

Food is the most expensive thing that we're doing, but I splurged a bit on my wedding dress! I bought one that was probably double the price of my budget because it was absolutely perfect!

Food is probably going to be the biggest thing we slurge on. No one like to go to a wedding and not enjoy the food, I want the experience to be great as a whole for my guest. I also want a great meal on my wedding day!

Food is definitely the biggest expense, but we couldn't really do anything about that cuz it's provided by the hall we want. next would probably be my dress cuz i went a little overboard plus alcohol, those 3 are really the only expensive parts i was pretty budget conscious about the rest

We spent the most on our photographer, thankfully our local hall is free if they cater and it's only 15$/person for the full meal and desserts!

Honeymoon for sure!!

We are doing the wedding as cheap as possible so we can spend all our money on a 2 month trip backpacking Europe

but aside from honeymoon most our money has gone to food, booze, photographer and tent/table/chair rentals.

So far mainly food/booze and photographers. Everything else is kind of trickling in, taking as many short cuts as I can with decorations which include 2nd hand items or items for free, dollar stores that way the cost is still manageable.

The vendors we are spending the most on will be the venue (food included), photography, and decor/floral. Our honeymoon is pretty pricey too but we aren't really including that in our vendors.

We are both big foodies so good food was important as well as good music and transportation for our guests to and from the venue as we didn't want anyone having to leave early in order to drive or try driving intoxicated.

Our biggest three is Reception, Photos, honeymoon. Venue and food was priority for fiance, photos and dress was priority for me (although I didn't want to spend a ridiculous amount on the dress!). We are both excited for the honeymoon as we have not been to a tropical location together!