Work has been a bit slow as the boss is on site, so I decided I should do a bit of googling and guestimate the budget a bit better so I have a baseline.
http://www.easyweddings.com.au/forum/index.php is my saviour, I love the forums and check them out every few days for updates. There's lots of posts from brides saying they spent this much on X, comparing prices & value. ANYWAY after I started putting a few figures into my trusty old excel sheet I did an autosum...
Are you ready for it?
Really? Please remember we have approx 140 guests on our list for a 3-course meal. Here goes!
$36,000. THIRTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS
That is assuming the reception will be 20k which it can easily be with 140 guests. I could probably do the reception for 15k if we chose less desirable options, but that still means we'd be spending 31k on a wedding.
Now, when we first got engaged we figured 20k was a good guesstimate, then we realised our guest list was 40 more than we anticipated, so upped it to 25k. Now that I've punched the numbers I'm considering eloping!!
When I saw the figure at work today I felt sick, I was literally shaking with knots in my stomach thinking about that much money being spent on one day.
36k is the car that Pete wants, its a deposit on a house. No way am I spending 36k on a wedding.
Now if I grew up with money I'd think nothing of it, but coming from a poor-ass family who couldn't even afford a family holiday, 36k for one day is crazy. It's not for me.
I'd rather have a smaller gourmet wedding than a huge spit roast wedding for the same price.
So now MrC and I are discussing having our wedding somewhere else, as in destination wedding. That way people have to travel, so a few people wouldn't come, with a smaller wedding I wouldn't buy an exxy dress, Pete wouldn't need a suit, we wouldn't need lots of flowers etc, no cars. And obviously a cheaper reception!
Early discussions but we will consider all options, lucky we still have heaps of time up our sleeves.
KDB I know you will read this so I'll send you an email tomorrow!
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