Wedding Budget

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Our wedding was around $5000.
I think it depends on what you do. We married in a church, knew the owner of the cars, had the cake made as a gift, had family cater & hired the local shire hall for the reception.
Prices I remember...
Church - $100 donation
Hall/reception venue - $250 for whole weekend. $200 deposit on top, but included all tables & chairs, full kitchen, bar & coolroom.
Cars - $0 Dad's mate owns a LJ Torana & FJ Holden, so we asked him & another friend of his to drive, than had other close friends with beautiful Harley's to lead as well.
Food - approx $500. Mum & family friends did our catering.
Alcohol - approx $1000. FIL made a deal with their regular bottle shop. We had xxxx gold available (mid strength ), a bottle of wine for each table for toasts, & fruit punch. Anything else we let people know there was a pub across the road for takeaways if they preferred.
Cake - $0 family friend made ours for us as a gift.
Dress - $300 I just wore a white Formal dress, instead of a proper wedding dress. If I could thats the only thing I'd change. Just for something more special, but I was happy with it $45 veil from ebay.
Suits - $100 from Lowes, $25 shirts from Target & $20 ties from Lowes
Bridesmaids - $30 knee length halter dresses from Target.
Shoes - $25 us girls all wore the same. Sandles from Payless shoes.
Flower girls - $30 dress's from Target, $20 shoes from Payless shoes.
Flowers - $145. Fake ones off ebay, very happy with them though
Decorations - a few hundred $$. We used hurricane lanterns from Clints, with frangipani shaped flowers off ebay, black fish tank pebbles, on a tray from clints with frangi's on it as table decorations. Then some fairy lights, ribbon, & some frangi's on wire off ebay.
Photographer - we were really lucky here. My pop is a photographer & DH worked with one at the time. Both did it as a gift to us, which meant alot.
We also bought silver disposable camera's for each table from ebay. They were 12 for $35.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...id=39285541028

We didn't have the classiest wedding....we aren't the classiest people, lol, but everyone had a great time & they all still tell me 4 years later that it was the best wedding they've ever been too!
Here's a link to some pics on FB if you want a look. Can't remember if we're friends or not!
Oh & we had about 80 - 100 people there

ETA - sorry about where the link is....BB doesn't like me much once I fill the reply box. I cen never get back to the bottom of the post for some reason!