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| Autumn | Hey Ladies,
How much are you guys budgeting for your wedding? Thanks Autumn |
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| EmmyLou | We were originally aiming for around $12,000 but now that we have moved the wedding back another 12 months, I'm thinking it will be more like $20 - $25,000.
We will be able to invite everyone we want to now!! Em |
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| EmmyLou | That's including the honeymoon by the way
Em |
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| Caroline | We spent just under $10,000. Stuck to it too. We didnt spend that much on the honeymoon as my Auntie paid for our accomodation. |
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| Juliette | I dont even know what we spent.. I think it was well over $35k. |
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| Charmore | Wow Juliette, I cant imagine spending that much. We are hoping somewhere between 5-12,000. Fingers crossed we keep to the budget |
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| Jo | our budget was 30k but i think it will go abit more than that.....ooopsss... |
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| Alicia | For everything, including our honeymoon it was around $27,000.00 but that includes what my parents paid for (meals, wedding co-ordinator/decorator) and what my in-laws paid for (money over the bar). |
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| missy | absolutely everything (including honeymoon and all monies outlaid by family etc) is 24K
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| Julie | Our Budget is $7000.
I got approx prices for what we wanted, Reception Centre, gowns, photography ect, took all the prices and added them up, from there we worked out our budget. Also we are having our Wedding on a Friday Evening, which i have saved Hundreds of Dollars on as there are some Major discounts for having a Non Saturday wedding!. Good Luck. Jules |
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| Amelia | Hey ours is going to be around $15,000. BUT a girl i know spent over 50grand on hers and her parnets and inlaws didnt put in a thing they had over 250 guests!!!!! some ppl just go over the top its only 1 day! |
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| EmmyLou | It's one day that you will remember for the rest of your life but I also cannot justify spending that sort of money, as you said, on one day!!!!!!
Em |
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| Charmore | 50 grand, I cant even think of what you could spend all that money on. I would much prefer to put a deposit on a house b4 spending that much on a wedding |
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| Juliette | Well both our parents helped with our wedding. If we paid for it all on our own, I dont think we would have spent as much. |
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| sas | we spent 11,500 for 105 ppl. annoyed cos 5 ppl didn't show up. so we lost 100 bucks. |
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| Jill | Hi Sas,
I understand where you are coming from. 7 people didn't turn out at our wedding, 1 turn up unannounced, so we still have 6 people. considering that it's almost $100 per person. these people are family and they just live 5 minutes drive from our house. I can't find words to describe how we feel, but these people also requested for more seats at our reception, and we had to cut down our friends from our list. We are having another reception in another year or so and will only have friends. Cheers,Jill |
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| repgirl04 | I know what you mean Jill. All the things I've organised in the last few months my H2B's family were the last to let us know if they were coming, not so much his immediate family but his aunt's and uncles. It's just plain rude not to let people know if you are attending their function, especially when they have given you ample time to reply. It was even to the point where my fiance had to go and see one of them to find out if they were going.
Now I find out that one of my BIL2B is having his going away party (he is heading os for a few months) on the same night as our engagement party!! He didn't organise his party, his friends did while he was in hospital, but he didn't even say anything about changing th date to them. And to top if off, one of my other BIL's2B is also going to the going away party. They are still coming to our engagment party but will leave early to go to the other. I just get so p@$&!ed cos we, well I, organise things well in advance and people just don't seem to give a s@#t. Really jacks me off, BREATHE. |
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| repgirl04 | Sorry, sorta went off the topic then. :-( |
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| Charmore | lol, thats alright, its good to vent, let it all out |
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| hayley | hey autumn. what ever your budget is, tripple it!
we budgeted $5000 then changed venue, dress, cars, photographer i think we will end up spending about $15000 |
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| Charmore | I was so happy, coz I found a way to lower the budget, but I just found out that the service I was looking at doesnt come out to my area. I was so excited when I found them, and now Im so upset |
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| Sally#1 | Our wedding cost about $10,000, including honeymoon. |
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| Autumn | Hey Heyley,
Well I hope I dont have to tripple ours, We wanted to spend about 12k, our reception it self is costing us that much, My dress was 2k, and flowers, cakes, suits, cars ect it keeps adding up, we are now looking at 20k. We are blessed that my parents are paying for it, and we only have to pay for the honey moon, so it makes it alot easier, not having to watch every penny. But hell we only do it once, and my partner and i wanted it to be like what we expected for our day. Thanks Ladies xxx |
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| Sally#1 | We paid for our own wedding and just couldn't justify spending any more than $10k. We didn't want to take out a loan because we didn't want to be paying for it for 30 years when the event was over. For us it didn't make sense to be paying $20k+ when we didn't even own a house - if we could afford that much for a wedding then we could use it for a deposit on a house instead.
If we had heaps and heaps of money, a house, and money wasn't a problem then we probably would have spent more on our day because there were a few things that I would have liked but spending heaps of money wasn't an option so we found alternatives (eg. our honeymoon destination would have been different and so would the mode of transport to the ceremony). |
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| Jill | Hi repgirl04,
sorry to hear that. What does BIL mean? thanks. Jill |
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| Jill | I was told $30-$35 is the average of Australian weddings these days.
this is the advise we started while planning on our wedding: 'Champagne test on a beer budget'. needless to say, everything we had on our wedding day is discounted. It's either last pair/last one left/whatever. the only thing we didn't get discount is the stationery and bonbonieres, since we did a lot of that ourselves...ended up costing more than the market price. best of luck to future brides to be. cheers,Jill |
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| Jill | sorry I mean $30-$35K, forgot to add K.
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| repgirl04 | Hey Jill,
BIL = Brother in Law SIL = Sister in Law MIL = Mother in Law FIL = Father in Law I'm just tired of having to type all the words out when I write about them so I shortened it. I thought that I had seen them here on ABD. |
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| Francoise | Charmone,
Good luck at sticking to your budget looks like its going to be a challenge for both of us. We are expecting/hoping ours to be around $10 gees I agree spending $50k on your mortgage rather than your wedding is money better spent. My feeling is that if your paying for this expense party that you don't have to invite people you don't even associate with. People who deserve to be there will appreciate it more and make you and you h2b feel that much more loved on your day Here's to all the gals in the process of making arrangements and those who are there already, have the best day of your lives. keep looking beautiful... |
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| Francoise | Hi Emmylou
I love your name. i hope you don't mind me saying I actually saw a paddlesteamer in Echuca last year and it was so cute it had your name on it. If I ever get over the fear of being responsible for a kid one day in the (far) future. I would love to name my girl Emmylou take it easy |
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| Charmore | good luck to you too Francoise!!
So far things are on budget. Im very happy with what I have found so far. I hope we can both stick to our budgets, we can help each other keep strong! |
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| EmmyLou | Francoise,
thanks so much!! It's kinda more of an abbreviation of my name. My name is hypenated & I don't have a middle name so it's all joined up together!! Em |
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| Jenna | we are budgeting for aroud $15-$20 thousand for ours. Im doing so much cost cutting and using heaps of networks for cheaper prices....but everything still adds up. |
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| Nicolle | We were hoping to spend under $20k but now its looking more like around $25k. My parents are putting in $15k and then we have to pay the rest although my H2B's parents are putting in $2k which is a little frustrating especially considering they are quite well off and keep adding people to the guest list. His mum also keeps saying, you only do it once, if you want it, have it! And we're like, yeah right but how are we meant to pay for that?
Am trying to cut it down as much as I can but not having a great deal of luck so far other than to cut our guest list of 150 which is quite hard as we both have large families and have already cut it back from 180!! My BIL2B is also getting married 7mths before us which is hard as I all I ever hear my MIL talk about is there wedding! Anyone have suggestions on how do deal with MIL's?? |
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| Charmore | Just keep in mind what you and your h2b want for your wedding, dont take any real notice of your mil2b.
I know how you feel about your guest list, we did a big cut of 140 people down to 70, just decided we wanted it small and to only invite people we really wanted to share our day with. Different bridal websites are great for comparing prices of different services, Ive been lucky in finding some cheap things just by searching and comparing |
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| EmmyLou | Ignore her.... If she is this much invested in their ceremony now, she is only going to get more so the closer it gets. I know it's a bit heartless & cruel to say so but if she's like this now, chances are she's going to be like this until after the other wedding.
Then you probably wont be able to get rid of her and you'll long for the days when she wasn't so involved!! Just keep calm about it all. You'll get through it! Em |
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| Nicolle | Thanks Em, that's what I'm trying to do. As awful as it sounds, I'm pretty much trying to keep our plans to ourselves as I don't want her to find out some of the things we're doing and tell the others so they get to do it before us! |
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