{"id":4663,"date":"2013-10-21T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/add-vodka.com\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:27:20","slug":"costs-of-planning-our-wedding-venues-caterers-and-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/add-vodka.com\/costs-of-planning-our-wedding-venues-caterers-and-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Costs of Planning Our Wedding: Venues, Caterers, and Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a month and a half since my partner dropped to one knee and popped the question,<\/a> and ever since, we have been planning our wedding with fervour (or, as much fervour as my life will allow right now, which is not much).<\/p>\n

See, we wanted to get married in the summer, and his timing left us under a year to plan. I’m not complaining, since I probably would have wasted any time before this anyway. Procrastination.<\/p>\n

\"Photography<\/a>
Photography by Katsu Nojiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So far, I’ve been able to write a couple of wedding posts, but none about our specific situation:<\/p>\n

Wedding Gift Tips and Tricks<\/a>
\nHow to Save on a Wedding<\/a>
\nWhy a Courthouse Wedding is Not for Me<\/a><\/p>\n

After some wedding venue drama from last week, I was ready to start re-considering that last one.<\/p>\n

In any case, as I am sure the oodles of personal finance and lifestyle bloggers getting engaged and hitched over the past little while will tell you, wedding planning is fun in theory but not in action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are so many considerations, and so many ways to unintentionally hurt people’s feelings. I am surprised that any couple gets out of the planning stage of their lives with all of their friends and family members still (let alone all of their hair).<\/p>\n

I’ve never wanted to spend a ton of money on my wedding.<\/strong> I’m just not into starting my life as a newlywed with debt. Other than our mortgage, we’ve never had debt together, so why start when we’re married?<\/p>\n

However, there are a thousand costs to a traditional western wedding, especially if you don’t do a destination wedding. I have always been adamantly against destination weddings because they alienate so many people.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we’ve spent so far, and what we will be spending in the coming months:<\/p>\n

Caterer<\/h2>\n

Since our wedding is coming up fairly soon, we have put the deposit on the caterer that we chose. The deposit was only $300, which isn’t too bad for a deposit. We don’t know yet how many guests will bless us with their company, but we are trying to keep it under 100.<\/p>\n

The caterer we booked was, unlike many of the other food vendors that we researched, very well priced and the menus provided were exactly on point with what we have wanted.<\/p>\n

Venue<\/h2>\n

We originally set the wedding date for a week before our current date, because it just so happened that the caterer and venue were both free that week.<\/p>\n

We had a lot of drama with our venue over the past week, because they changed management and the new manager didn’t see that we had reserved our date. As a result, she double booked us.<\/p>\n

Luckily, our caterer had a cancellation for the weekend after, so we were able to line it up, but not without a whole bunch of undue stress.<\/p>\n

The venue is perfect and I’ve always dreamed of being married there, so I’m glad it worked out. $400 later, and we have our wedding date set in stone. We’ll be paying the rest later on, as this particular venue charges per guest and we will have to finalize our guest list.<\/p>\n

Photographers<\/h2>\n

Even though the wedding is months away, when we first started reaching out to photographers, we noticed that an alarming amount of them were already booked for our date.<\/p>\n

We have been searching high and low for a photographer that takes the style of photos that we want, that is available on our date and that isn’t outrageously expensive.<\/p>\n

We’d rather spend more on the photographer and save on things like the center pieces, but there’s no way we’re willing to spend $4,000 on a photographer.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What did you splurge on for your wedding? Is there anything you’d wished you’d spent more or less money on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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