Has sleepy Joe gotten to these things too? My jaw about hit the floor when we started looking around at prices. Throw some string lights up in an old barn and charge 10k for it. I think I picked the wrong profession

There is a reason it's in out long term plan to have an event center at our farm.

There is an old tobacco barn about a mile or so from my place. They have redone the inside, put in concrete floor and kept the exterior “rustic” as they call it. Only heat or a/c in the place is where the bride and groom get ready. Cost for Friday evening (rehearsal) and Saturday all day is $11,500.00- that’s just for the venue nothing else!

Is her family paying for the wedding or are yall?

If you are my advice is only spend as much as you can pay in cash.

Don't go in debt for a wedding.

Why start out your married life paying off a huge wedding debt?

In 20 years you guys will.say..what were we thinking sp3nding a that money on a wedding.

As for the rings? Your just as married with simple matching gold bands as you are with a 10,000.00.diamond.

Just an old woman's.s thoughts whos been there's.lol

Whats wrong with your church? You do have a church family don't you?

My family owns this. I’m a little biased but you’ll find great prices here. Plus…..Montana. Duh.

https://roundupbarnweddings.com/

Beware of a trap if when you ask the preacher how much you owe him and he says "Whatever She Is Worth".

10,000.00 around here.

VFW and Fireman's halls around here are rented for $400 to 800 a day. $10,000 dollars just shouldn't be spent that way, I'm with Cathryn don't go in debt, if this kind of wedding is a deal breaker you weren't meant for each other anyway

Now that's one heck of a trap. I will never accumulate or earn that much in my lifetime.

I don't owe a dime on anything I own, including her ring. I can promise you we won't go into debt for the wedding

Yes sir we are very active in our church. Blessed to have a great pastor and a great church family

Our church started around a firepit 7 years ago and then progressed to the barn on that property. From there we have moved to the high school cafeteria, then the auditorium, and now we are in the old mill in town that we have up fitted to have heat/AC etc.

We don't have your typical church building, but as you and I both know the building isn't what makes a church

The mill isn't exactly somewhere you would want to get married

Seeing alot of that around here. People will stick a ton of $$ into an old barn and they're booked out in not time. I heard a few years ago that the average wedding cost $20K but I'm sure that has doubled by now. The sad part is that the marriage usually is done well before the wedding is paid off.

That is a STEAL! If it wasn't for elderly members of the family who we want to be there we would be willing to travel. I'm going to keep it local for that reason

look into parks, relatives homes or even your place if you have a little space , you want the people in your life to share the day with you , you don't need to go into debt to have that , you just need to also not try for one of those TV weddings

you think 6.5 creedmore marketing hype is awful , wedding marketing hype is a whole industry 24x7 on cable and internet , tv , "create your perfect day" worry about details and money that will honestly be such a blur in the day of.


a friends nephew got married they cleared out the machine shed at the farm cleaned it up real nice and they were going to build a deck for their house so they built the deck as the dance floor it bolted together in sections and when the wedding was over the lifted the sections onto a hay trailer and brought it to the house and installed the deck.

wife and I were 21 when we got married , my mother in law had ideas of how it should go , to be honest she was footing the majority of the bill so we rolled with it

years later we decided if we had to put together my own wedding it would so be a pig roast in a park with a shelter we could rent and keep it less formal.

My wife did everything for our wedding. She planed it, cooked, decorated, made the invitations, centerpieces everything. She ordered her dress off line had it altered locally.

We were married in October with the fall colors in full swing at the lake across the road from my house. I rented chairs and set them up. Other than the chairs it cost nothing. 5 mile down the road there is a place that has a lot of camps and lakes. She rented the fishing hole clubs pole barn for the night for $50. It included tables and the chairs.. she decorated it and it looked amazing.

I have family that had 20-50k weddings , catering, ordered and purchased everything. Not one was as nice or had as good of food as ours. Total cost of ours was under $2500 and it was a heck of a party.
Her wedding ring set she picked out at a pawn shop when she was 17 i paid . Only $250 for it.It is an old and unique never seen another one like it.

Invitation were crazy high. She ordered all the tools to stamp them and make them raise the paper, make fancy edges ect... you guess it she got exactly what she wanted,nicer than she could have ordered and at a fraction of the cost. Like everything else if there is a will there is a way.

coondagger2, if you haven't already done so talk to your pastor about other churches that may be available in your area, I know in the past we have allowed people who were not members to get married in our church building or use the fellowship hall for receptions if their pastor and our pastor knew each other and he would vouch for them or if a member of the church was willing to sponsor them. We used to have a looser policy but as you can imagine one bad apple spoils the barrel, they didn't do much damage, but their behavior was not what we would find respectful and appropriate in the church building and fellowship hall.

If you append the word "Wedding" to anything, it goes up by a multiplier of at least 3, often 4.

In all honesty, do yourself a favor skip the traditional wedding BS. Pay for the Church/pastor, then have a gathering somewhere for a couple of hours with light munchies and call it good. Skip the wedding DJ, the caterer, the cake, , the open bar, the wedding planner and coordinator etc. The only thing I'd say don't scrimp on is the photographer. An average small wedding will run you 25-30K. Thats for about 75 people to attend. Shed all the BS and save that money for what counts, a down payment on a house. If she's more interested in the wedding than the house, do yourself another favor and leave her behind.

DO NOT go into Debt for a wedding! Absolutely stupid idea to begin a marriage in debt.

The cost of a wedding is stupid , save most of it for a honeymoon trip .


I just finished up working on an extensive remodel on an exceptional property that plans to host high end weddings .40 to 50 thousand dollar weddings .

My wife and I got married in CircusCircus casino in Las Vegas. Had a party in the park when we got back. Cost was $ 29.95 including one picture and a bag of toiletries. That was in 1976 and we are still going strong. Not for everyone but it worked for us.