Your wedding budget

Future Mrs H Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:02 PM

Your wedding budget

I just found my excel sheet with my wedding budget (estimated and actual).
I noticed I came in under budget by $3780.00

Was wondering on a whole how did you guys do?
Over or Under budget?

adelz Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:09 PM

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We went over budget on the actual wedding by about $4,000 I think- because I didn't add in originally the costs of rings, officiant (I thought it was $50 hah), violin, and then we added in video. We also went over on our honeymoon by about $3K.

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:11 PM

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over budget (not counting our honeymoon in it) by about 2k. THis was our second budget after we raised our initial by 10K.

atitus724 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:17 PM

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Over by 12k

SoontobeMrs.Brown Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:20 PM

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evita2781 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:34 PM

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after we doubled our original unrealistic budget, we were still over $13k w/ the HM

AwaitingAugust Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:36 PM

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we were good and stayed within our budget ... i'm kind of amazed, to be honest

JBC12510 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:38 PM

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I'm honestly not sure we had one since we really didnt know what to expect to spend...if we did, we went over it for sure.

Linzee636 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:40 PM

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Posted by AwaitingAugust

we were good and stayed within our budget ... i'm kind of amazed, to be honest

THIS! At most we were $1000 over, but considering the total cost, I think that was negligible. A lot of the last minute things (like adding programs, OOT bags, flip flops baskets) contributed to that, but otherwise we were on budget. CRAZY

Chanwich Posted: Aug 15, 2011 01:41 PM

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we didn't have one

jm2010 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 02:11 PM

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Posted by JBC12510

I'm honestly not sure we had one since we really didnt know what to expect to spend...if we did, we went over it for sure.

we didn't set out with a budget either - DH & I paid for it all and as we went along, we just asked how much things cost and decided whether we wanted to pay that $$ to include it ... i.e. - the first choice for our reception was an outdoor space that needed EVERYTHING rented - the caterer gave us a $18k quote before we even talked food - that, we knew, was a no go ... in the end, we were satisfied with what we spent ...

halfbaked Posted: Aug 15, 2011 02:54 PM

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Over. Well over.

Moonmist09 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 02:56 PM

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over by $20K

IrishAli Posted: Aug 15, 2011 03:00 PM

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Over by $1000

Not too bad

dctead Posted: Aug 15, 2011 03:49 PM

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We never considered our Honeymoon apart of the 'wedding' budget - that had a spread sheet and budget of its own...

Wedding wise... (God! What a spread sheet!! ) .........we were UNDER budget, by $$326.20 exactly!!

xoabxo Posted: Aug 15, 2011 03:51 PM

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I think we came in right around budget could be a little more a little less

spdy540 Posted: Aug 15, 2011 09:44 PM

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without the hm we more then doubled our budget. I look back I should have just went with the brentwood package

Yankeeelove Posted: Aug 16, 2011 09:12 AM

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Posted by Chanwich

we didn't have one

This...sorry forgot what board I was on lol

HSsweethearts Posted: Aug 16, 2011 12:42 PM

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hahahaha

Budget...hahaa.

How can you come in under budget?

I don't think we really had a budget. Initialyl we said $30K. Then we said, ok, $40K, but then when the hall alone was $30K we knew it would be a lot more. I think when I made my wedding wire budget I put in $55K as a baseline and we spent something around $60K.