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My hubby and I joke that we should have had a sign at our wedding saying "Sponsored By eBay!" LOL!! I would estimate that 98% off our wedding preparations were sorted online!
I bought my wedding dress, ($149 made to order, total cost $200 once I had it shortened on arrival as it was about 2 inches too long, everything else perfect!), ties & hankies for the groom and 4 attendants, 5 bouquets, 2 corsages and 2 buttonierres (sp?), the wedding rings, bracelets for my bridesmaids, all the fixings for the bonbonierre, the invitations, personalized cake toppers, and the car (1 car made 2 trips for the boys then girls).
I found the location online, after viewing and falling in love with it, all correspondance was by email and phone.
The cake I found a design online, got a few quotes online, then took it to the bakery that did my brothers wedding cake. Again after the initial visit, all correspondance was by email.
Our celebrant was an old highschool friend I had reconnected with on FB.
Our DJ was a family friend.
Mum did my hair, I did my makeup.
I asked the bridesmaids to just wear black, as long as they looked somewhat dressed up I didn't care what they wore. The boys were asked to wear black suits, again they didn't have to match, their ties would bring them all together.
All in all we had quite a large wedding, 150 turned up. I have a large extended family who I am close with, hubby and I both wanted to get married somewhere we could afford to have everyone we wanted there, we didn't want to cut numbers to fit a budget, we found a place to fit us. It was a finger food reception, with beer wine & softdrink supplied for 8 hours. Spirits could be purchased. We had no photographer, just got pics from friends, and had some disposables on the tables for a laugh! In total our wedding was between 9-10k, half of that was just drink! We both wanted to throw a reception where our friends could drink up and party, which is exactly what they did!
While I don't regret the money we spent, as it was exactly what we wanted, and we had the money saved, (on top of the deposit we had already saved for a house, if we hadn't sorted the house first we would have postponed the wedding), it was still painful handing over all that money! But that's just the tightarse in me! I don't begrude people having a big expensive fancy wedding, but don't complain about how much you're spending, don't whine that it's too much, as you could have made different less expensive choices!
What bugs me is people who think a wedding HAS to be expensive in order to be weddingy.. You do what suits your budget, at the end of the day you will be married, who cares what others think!
Oh and my dress was grey.. I barely have any white socks let alone getting a big poofy white dress, I'd always wanted silver, the fabric I got was grey, but looked lovely with all the beading etc..
I bought my wedding dress, ($149 made to order, total cost $200 once I had it shortened on arrival as it was about 2 inches too long, everything else perfect!), ties & hankies for the groom and 4 attendants, 5 bouquets, 2 corsages and 2 buttonierres (sp?), the wedding rings, bracelets for my bridesmaids, all the fixings for the bonbonierre, the invitations, personalized cake toppers, and the car (1 car made 2 trips for the boys then girls).
I found the location online, after viewing and falling in love with it, all correspondance was by email and phone.
The cake I found a design online, got a few quotes online, then took it to the bakery that did my brothers wedding cake. Again after the initial visit, all correspondance was by email.
Our celebrant was an old highschool friend I had reconnected with on FB.
Our DJ was a family friend.
Mum did my hair, I did my makeup.
I asked the bridesmaids to just wear black, as long as they looked somewhat dressed up I didn't care what they wore. The boys were asked to wear black suits, again they didn't have to match, their ties would bring them all together.
All in all we had quite a large wedding, 150 turned up. I have a large extended family who I am close with, hubby and I both wanted to get married somewhere we could afford to have everyone we wanted there, we didn't want to cut numbers to fit a budget, we found a place to fit us. It was a finger food reception, with beer wine & softdrink supplied for 8 hours. Spirits could be purchased. We had no photographer, just got pics from friends, and had some disposables on the tables for a laugh! In total our wedding was between 9-10k, half of that was just drink! We both wanted to throw a reception where our friends could drink up and party, which is exactly what they did!
While I don't regret the money we spent, as it was exactly what we wanted, and we had the money saved, (on top of the deposit we had already saved for a house, if we hadn't sorted the house first we would have postponed the wedding), it was still painful handing over all that money! But that's just the tightarse in me! I don't begrude people having a big expensive fancy wedding, but don't complain about how much you're spending, don't whine that it's too much, as you could have made different less expensive choices!
What bugs me is people who think a wedding HAS to be expensive in order to be weddingy.. You do what suits your budget, at the end of the day you will be married, who cares what others think!
Oh and my dress was grey.. I barely have any white socks let alone getting a big poofy white dress, I'd always wanted silver, the fabric I got was grey, but looked lovely with all the beading etc..
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