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Can i be so bold as to ask???
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08-01-2010 1:15pm#1
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i just had a ball park €500 figure in my head..
hope i didnt offend
the costs in general are ridiculous. hotels are finally seeing a bit of backlash and haggling thanks to the recession and im damn well going to be haggling hard.
invites are something else i cant justify €3 or €4 each for, when lots of people chuck them out anyway, but ive found ones i love for €1 each and was thinking of maybe doing a similiar design and lino printing my own.
we recently moved into our first house so im trying to cut anything i cant reasonably see sense in forking out on. food and music being the most important expenditures for guest enjoyment, thats where i expect to pay more but im willing to downgrade on the dress..... the honeymoon i want to go all out on as we are really saving hard on a small income. we plan to spend max 3k on the honeymoon0 -
We were also a bit overwhelmed at the cost of a band simply because we'd never hired one before but after discussing it and doing a bit of research on the interweb we decided to allow €2k for band and dj.holy hand of christ bands are expensive
We found a band which we hope will be great
but they have some brass as well so the sound will be fantastic.
We got quotes from €1300 - €1750 for bands playing a Fri night Feb.
As I said before, get the music right and everyone will have a great time. I was at a lavish wedding a few years ago; it was fantastic until it came to the music. Let's just say the music let them down and took away from the day.0 -
i just had a ball park €500 figure in my head..
hope i didnt offend
the costs in general are ridiculous. hotels are finally seeing a bit of backlash and haggling thanks to the recession and im damn well going to be haggling hard.
invites are something else i cant justify €3 or €4 each for, when lots of people chuck them out anyway, but ive found ones i love for €1 each and was thinking of maybe doing a similiar design and lino printing my own.
we recently moved into our first house so im trying to cut anything i cant reasonably see sense in forking out on. food and music being the most important expenditures for guest enjoyment, thats where i expect to pay more but im willing to downgrade on the dress..... the honeymoon i want to go all out on as we are really saving hard on a small income. we plan to spend max 3k on the honeymoon
no offence taken at all. I and other vendors like smelly see this a lot. Think of it this way. I play in a 6 piece band, we play 2-3 times a week if we're lucky, (theres very little happening at the moment for anyone). 4 of us do it for a living. if all we got was 500 between us what living would that be?
I understand that people have no idea of prices of these things as theyve never had to book us before and may never do so again. But while it may seem expensive, its not ridiculous. The price is to provide a service that we wouldnt be able to at lower. I had to get insurance and tax for our van last week. Just under 1000e. I had to get the annual DOE done on it and repairs to make it pass that, that was 750e. Thats money thats just gone.
2k is about the average going rate for band and DJ and what we charge.
However I know when it came to my wedding I had no idea photographers were so.........expensive. I mean theres only 1 of them and all the work they do is on computers so it cant be that hard....:D0 -
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holy hand of christ bands are expensive
As was noted above by someone in the business. It's a business and folk have expenses to cover. Like everything else, if you can get someone you know to do it you'll chop costs. But beware when you do that you cut in the right way. For example:getting my sis to help with flowers and buying them directly online
You can get flowers for relative buttons down the market. But you need to ensure that those making the bouquets know what their doing. You don't want a wilted bouquet half way through the service, or the heads getting knocked of your roses for want of them being wired.buying a modestly priced dress (€500 - 1000)
Good start. If it doesn't kill you to wear secondhand then fleabay will see you get the top brands at a fraction of the original cost.getting BM dresses in the sales/high st. flower girl dress > tk maxx
Good ideahire suits
Most do. But if your hubby to be hasn't a good suit/shoes, it might not be a bad idea to invest in one now - if it's be that he'd get some use out of it. The sales are on so you'd probably get something decent enough for 2.5 x what you hire one for.haggle with the hotel
And don' put a penny down until the last possible moment. The initial ballpark we were quoted for a restaurant reception was 14k all in (meal drink/bar included). We ended up paying 8k on the night for everything - using the intervening time (and a deepening recession) to crank down the cost. We must have had about 5 separate chats on price before finally shaking handswe have a choice of 2 photographers to approach, my uncle and a fella from h2b's village
If their competant then fair enough. But unless they've experience in weddings then you'll need to make up for the lowered cost with more prep work yourself. We went the same route and gave a list of required family/friend shots to the photographer and organised folk from each of the key groups to collect the relevant people for the shots and deliver them in front of the camera: someone not used to it might not have the wherewithal to sheperd the sheep on the day. We also walked the route on which photos would be taken of us. Yet we didn't mention his taking photos at our reception (he was also a guest) and ended up with very few. Have they enough savvy to carry enough batteries? Is their equipment up to the job (they'll need a fast charging flashgun - not something that takes 20 seconds to ready itself for the next shot, etc.)no video > id spend the whole time watching it cringing!!
Someone you know'll have a video cam. Get them to load up on batteries and memory and have em run it off. If nothing else it will act as a back up to the photographer (you can extract still photos from video footage). It's always possible to edit the movie to cut out bits you'd cringe at.we wont rent cars, we'll just ask for a lend from family/friends!
Fair enough.
Have a look at "Executive Taxis" though (google them). They act more as a taxi service - charging according to the journey and not because it's a wedding and they can load up. We got a late model S-class Merc for about 40% of the price quoted for a similar cars via the Wedding Car listings. They do other cars too.
There was no complementary champagne (as if..), but there was ribbons and the driver wore a suit. I'd the option of borrowing a mates Porsche Cayman S to do the drive from the church to the restaurant but given that it was cross the city centre I thought better of it. Imagine dining your mates Porsche on your wedding day.thinking about going with a wild garden kind of theme (in other words wild flowers in decorated jam jars and tealights) can grow flowers in the garden and instead of flavours i was going to make jams, chutneys and chilli jams as flavours
Sounds nice. Organic.cheaper rings
Stainless steel doesn't look all that different to platinum - especially when the lustre wears off. A local engineering shop'd knock you up a couple for (relatively) next to nowt
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