Let's talk $$$

View quoted message Hi there!
Congratulations on your wedding ! We are on a very similar budget amounts as yours. Our dates are tentatively 23-24 august 2023. But difficult to find a venue for small gathering - only 45-50 guests are expected. Can you please share some of your finds or suggestions?

We actually did better than we anticipated in keeping costs down, as a number of guests were unable to come due to inability to travel. To our surprise, the twoonie bar that we had also helped keep costs down beyond what we had expected. There was not a huge amount of alcohol consumed (we had expected MUCH more) and venue costs were quite reasonable. We also did our own floral arrangements with silk flowers which saved a lot, and did our own decorating with rentals from a party rental firm.

I was able to keep the venue prices down - huge expense.

AND i found a great caterer which was tastier and just generally better than the caterers in our area. The excellent one was Rocky Mountain BBQ out of Calgary. Great food and great prices

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I just wish we had spent a little more and had a photographer at the reception.

Overall it was all for naught, hubby spent more than wedding on a power toy afew months later! LOL.

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It honestly helps when the venue does everything and I mean everything. No extra cost than what was quoted, and if their rates go up it doesn't affect me. I was lucky as she had quoted me $65 a plate, the day I went to see the venue her prices went up and kept my quoted rate.

I only went over by $10 on my budgeted dress, but my mother-in-law paid for most of it so it brought me back down. I saved on flowers by going with someone who does it as a hobby than professional.

That all really help staying in budget.

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I think that's great to have bought a house and been able to spend $$ on a wedding. I as well had an original budget inside my head of $10k but... didn't quite happen lol.

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Omg even better and great that you are on budget!

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Totally agree - that is what it is all about

My husband and I originally wanted to have our wedding for $5000. We quickly realized that we would have to make a lot of sacrifices that we didn't want to make. We then decided that as long as we ended up under $10,000 we'd be okay. We bought a house the same month we got married so that was more of a priority. We ended up spending around $8500. We were both very happy with that.

We are on budget, our venue helped a lot with that, as they take care of everything.

We too had a small wedding in which we came less than our actual cost. All vendors and little things do add up easily. We were happy with everything and just the simplicity of it. I know our Indian weddings are expensive given the large families near and far to consider. It makes it nice to see everyone as a family with young ones too enjoying the time together.

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Good for you for coming below budget!

In the end my husband and I were below budget but defiantly could've been a lot less money spent if we didn't have a destination wedding! But we wouldn't change anything it was the most perfect day