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I was lucky enough to be a part of a really amazing wedding last summer. The bride and groom rented two houses on the top of a mountain in West Virginia, one for a week and the other for four days. The houses cost less than $2000 that was shared among the massive amounts of people staying in them, I want to say around 20-30 staying in the two, one two story the other three. The bride's sister was studying baking & pastry arts and brought along her friend from school (me.) Over the course of a month or so we planned a three course plated menu with stationed apps for 50 people for the rehearsal dinner + a buffet lunch for after the wedding the next day + the wedding cake. I worked out a budget for all the food and was able to buy everything for less than $500. The flowers were bought from an online retailer in big generic bunches, the bridesmaids spent the night before the wedding have a girls night in one of the hot tub rooms drinking, soaking and arranging flowers. The dress was bought for less than $500. DJ equipment was supplied by the grooms brother with mixed cd's by one of the bride's sisters. The wedding wasn't really officiated, there was a book of prose, poetry, etc. that was passed down the wedding party with each member coming to the front and reading a page and the final blessing was given by the bride's great uncle. Pictures were taken by a close friend who's a professional photographer. I've been to some expensive ($200/head) weddings, but this one was by far the most amazing one. So all in all I guess what I'm saying is that with intense planning (seriously intense thorough forethought) a wedding can be amazing on a strict budget. Every purchase we made was carefully thought over and we saved tons of money. Use your connections to your advantage (within reason of course.)
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I don't understand that concept. If I'm going to tell someone they have to wear a certain thing, then I should have to pay for it. You're already laying down thousands of dollars for a party, why not an extra grand to pay for your girls dresses. At least a broke dude can rent a tux and won't have to lay down $500+.
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Jan 28, 2012 21:52
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Even as a dude I was pretty jealous that one of my friends was in a wedding and got an absolutely amazing free black vera wang out of the deal.
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Jan 29, 2012 23:26
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If I were getting married I would absolutely want to wear contacts. You can see everything so much clearer with the added bonus of not having to bother with your glasses once the tears start.
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Mar 9, 2012 05:12
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It's definitely a bad idea to make your own baked goods as the bride, unless you are a serious professional. However in any case you can bake your cakes ahead of time and freeze them well wrapped until you need them. The one caveat with cupcakes is that you will need to use foil liners so that you don't have soggy paper liners when they defrost. You can also make fantastic proper buttercream in advance and freeze it as well. Two days before the wedding just pull everything to come to temp and the day before you can finish them all off.
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Mar 20, 2012 01:48
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If you want "tablescapes" you have to pay for them.
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Apr 20, 2012 22:37
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marauderthirty posted:We have no desire to spend $25/plate or however much it normally costs for some fancy garbage that we wouldn't normally eat otherwise You'd be hard pressed to get fancy garbage for $25/head. I couldnt tell you how many times I've put out fancy garbage for $250/head.
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Dec 29, 2012 07:31
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For my friends wedding, his mother alone has sent out 350 invites. That's without his father's guests, his guests, his wife's guests, or his wife's mother's and father's guests.
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LogisticEarth posted:At the same time, there is not a worse time to make ill-conceived large purchases than right before your own wedding. So by this logic the bride's wedding dress is an ill conceived large purchase? Some people like looking nice and wearing nice clothes. I don't understand everyone complaining that he might only wear it once when that is literally what 98% of brides do every single day. And that is for gowns that cost thousands and thousands of dollars. And as someone who works in events in NYC, the opportunities to wear a tux are actually rather plentiful here.
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Bread Set Jettison posted:I've been looking Any place that does engraving will engrave a knife, its a pretty standard issue thing to do if you have one of those "Things Remembered" kiosks.
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and haven't found one. Maybe I can get a knife cover to get engraved?
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Rurutia posted:The image posted doesn't say $30 per person for the first hour. It says $30 per person, per hour. So I think it's $30 + $39*4 per person for 5 hours. It's worded poorly. You pay an initial charge and the smaller charge every hour after the first one.
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zakharov posted:Thanks to all for replying to my first question. Who is the caterer?
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mitztronic posted:I got married in Black Rock City, NV on Sept 1st. it was the most beautiful thing I've ever been apart of. Killed it. Congratulations.
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Chessna posted:Does anyone have experience with booking a block of hotel rooms for weddings? We'll probably have about 40 out of town guests and I know a few are bringing pets (on the trip, not to the wedding). The hotel we're planning on staying in allows pets and is a decent price. The only other hotel that allows pets and that's less expensive is the Econo lodge... Which I really don't want to put on the invites (Hey, I've stayed there! I just feel odd reserving rooms there). I've heard you're suppose to give two hotel options, do you guys think that's really necessary? It'd be different if we were paying $300/night with 100+ guests but this isn't the case. If you're paying for it, just do the one. If the bill is on them it's considerate to have another option
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