I have a 105 days left until the day of my wedding. I added a nifty countdown timer on my sidebar.
With all the preparations and planning one thing that my fiancée and I have been trying to do is to stick with a budget. The Microsoft website has a nice wedding budget template for Excel. We’ve been using it to estimate all of our costs and expenses.
The biggest expense will obviously be our Chinese banquet which we plan to spend around $16,000. The restaurant can hold a maximum of 360 people, so that’s 36 tables worth of ten-course meals. Although that may seem like a lot of money, I’m glad that we are doing a Chinese banquet instead of catering because I know that catering would have been much more expensive.
We found a college friend who can do the wedding photography for us. Although she isn’t a professional, she’s done enough weddings that we trust she can give us great pictures for a great price.
We also saved some money by doing the wedding invitations on our own.
Click on the thumbnails below to see what our budget looks like.
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Pingback by Savvy Steward » Less Than Two Weeks To My Wedding — May 14, 2007 @ 9:22 am
Wow, that’s a great deal for the banquet ($1000). How many guests?
For our wedding in 2003, my wife and I rented a nice sit-down restaurant, roughly 150 plates, for $2000. It was well worth it, to have a comfortable environment for all of our guests to sit down and relax after the wedding.
Best wishes in your new life together!
What are your “family” plans with regards to children, and how do you weigh in on preparing financially?
Comment by Jonathan — May 14, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
Hey Jonathan,
That $1000 you see was just for the deposit. We’re looking to spend a little over $15,000 for a Chinese banquet for 300 people.
We’re not planning to have children anytime soon. Maybe in a couple years.
Thanks,
-Savvy Steward
Comment by Savvy Steward — May 18, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
Hi, We really saved a lot of money by doing our save the date postcards with a site called www.savethedatemagic.com. It was afforable and the postcards came out beautiful!
Comment by Kerry — July 22, 2008 @ 4:42 am