The Weight of Money

I’ve added up everything I’ve spent on the wedding so far — $952.47. We agreed to spend $2,000, but I am pretty sure that we excluded the price of invitations and maybe even my dress.

The invitations have cost — $250.
This included a lot of prototyping and some generous purchases because of my fascination with crafting supplies. I know that we are excluding this from the wedding budget.

The dress has cost — $234.20
I’m pretty surprised about this being so high. It really is all the little things adding up. I’ve bought a lot of fabric that I won’t need due to the style of my dress. This also doesn’t include the money my mom spent on the dress. Due to the many uses I’ll have for the left over fabrics, this is also excluded from the wedding budget total. It is really just an elaborate costume that I’ve wanted to make for years — the wedding was just a good excuse to finally make it.

The two other big ticket items are the rental of chairs ($176) and the food ($170). I’m happy with the rental fee because we were originally looking at renting a tent which would have placed our rental fee closer to $1000. Being able to borrow shelters from friends is saving us a lot. The food is obviously going to be a high line item than what is listed right now. However, I had to pull out cash today to get the marriage license (despite being told on the phone that they take credit) and will apply the leftover cash to the food purchase since most farmers markets don’t take credit.

So, eliminating the dress and invitations from the budget, I’m at $468.27. Not bad.

Other costs that have been paid by the partner:
$300 site rental
$160 portajon rental — ouch!
$275 officiant gratuity — wow!
$200 groom’s attire

This was very informative to help me keep and eye on the ball. It looks like we just might meet the $2,000 limit pretty close (excluding invitations and dress) and hopefully stay within a few hundred dollars of it. I will be spending most of the remaining funds from the budget, since the partner has mostly be in charge of pre-established purchases and I’m actually hitting up the stores for the things we need. Having $500 of wiggle room, plus the $170 I’ve not actually spent on food yet, and it looks like we’re good to go. Yay!

This entry was posted on Monday, June 26th, 2006 at 3:30 pm and is filed under wedding. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.