how much do you think the average wedding costs in san franciso?
452198
depending on how far you want to go. You can make it simple and cheap, or you can go all out and spend thousands. I would keep it around 500 dollars and keep the other money you were going to spend to live on.
349114
Scientology courses start at $800.00 and go as high as $38,000.000 according to their monthly magazines!  Santaria has no cost involved.
740574
for a marriage certificate you have to go down to the hall of records. the cost should be $15.00 -$30.00. and that would be if it was an open marriage and not filed Confidential.
1125302
It depends on how nice you go.\n\nMy Grandma's was 4,500. you can get it cheaper (especially cremation) or it can go over 20,000. I'll bet that you could spend over a million if you wanted to.\n\nBut i would plan to spend between 4,000 or 8,000.
992579
It is going to be very expensive to have such a big wedding. You need to figure out the cost and make sure you get the money in plenty of time. You don't want to get stuck with huge expenses.
513411
We saved a lot of money by doing fingerfood buffet, purchasing flowers from a wholesaler warehouse, Buy your gown second hand and have it altered, find a park or garden with lots of flowers.  Usually you can reserve areas which are outdoor for really cheap.  If you have a friend or family member with a big yard, that could help you save.  Our local zoo, yes zoo had a beautiful banquet room and garden area overlooking the city and ocean.  The great thing about this was I did not need to buy as many flowers.  Don't discount your local zoo or botanical gardens.\n\nAlso, cakes can be EXTREMELY expensive.  You can either have a mini wedding cake with just 2 tiers done beautifully for "pictures" and then purchase a less expensive sheet cake for serving.  Another idea is to do wedding cupcakes that maybe a friend could make. \n\nA simple and inexpensive, yet meaningful giveaway would be to write your vows down, put on a computer and copy onto nice paper, roll into a scroll and put a ribbon around it.  If you don't have a computer, find someone with really nice handwriting and do maybe 20 a day.\n\nFinally, instead of hiring a caterer and using their food, We found someone who prepped the bulk food we bought from Costco.  They also set up and cleaned up the room and waited on people.  It only took 3 of them since it was buffet and 1 of them set up a mini bar where we only served Champagne and sparkling cider.  We got the champagne for only $2.99 a bottle from Trader Joes. It was a good brand of Asti Spumonti too.\n\nI hope this helps.  Oh the cost was $1,500 for Everything with 150 people and we had a BEAUTIFUL wedding that looked like it cost $6,000.  \n\nCongratulations and remember that the MARRIAGE is more important than the Wedding.
636267
This is interesting since I went through this with my son. The unfortunate part is that you want to do this just before x-mas and have people go south to join you on this wedding party. The downside is the cost to everyone for a forced trip to see you get married. My son and his bride invited 60 people to join them. The cost was in the $1000's of dollars....12 people showed up...the others could not afford the trip...even I did not go...I could not afford the price of the trip and accommodations either....in my opinion...get married where it is convenient for everyone to come....IT may be YOUR DAY...but LIFE is not ALL ABOUT YOU...ultimately
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Kaiser Permenente has plans if you are in their area. \n\nHold on to yourself, because you are going to be shocked at the cost.  Even for a healthy non-smoking single person under 40, it was close to $200 a month.  A family is probably going to be around $500 or more.  Yikes.
172569
The "rule of thumb" is twice your monthly salary, which is stupid!  It should be what she wants, and something you can afford.  We got ours on sale for $800 and it's perfect.  Save your money for the wedding and honeymoon costs.
675439
just marrry her\ngo to any church\ntell the priest that u will pay him $5000 if he make the ceremony faster\nor u will stab him at his throat if he make thing become rather slow\n\njust married.....
76985
How simple?\nYou can get married at the courthouse for the cost of the license and maybe a small fee to the judge.\n\nAdjusted for inflation, my wedding cost $1400 dollars.  That covered the chapel at a local church, the minister, organist, our rings, some flowers and the "reception". The only people that attended were our immediate families, 12 people. It was an early morning ceremony and afterwards we all went out and had brunch in a private dining room at a local restaurant. My wife made her own dress from a pattern. It was simple -- resembled a monks robe with a cowl. It cost her the price of the material and her labor. We were students, we paid for it ourselves, so we had to keep the price down.\n\nWhen you start having receptions, massive flowers, bridesmaids, DJ's, open bars, then the cost is going to climb.
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Hi,\nYou might want to go to http://www.clienty.com\nThey're free for brides and can help you find great prices
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I did everything for my wedding myself, and we were also on a budget.  I chose red as the color for the bridesmaid dresses...I also had a little red on my white dress, and I carried red roses.  The bridesmaids carried white calla lillies.  All the coursages and boutineers were red roses w/ white ribbons, when applicable.  All those flowers were down by Thrifty Florist and cost $290.00(USD) - (Bridal bouquet, 3 bridesmaids bouquets, 5 boutineers, 6 coursages) \n\nFor the ceremony/reception we did the flowers ourselves, I had red rose petals on the cake, and around the centerpieces, and along the edge of the head table.  The centerpieces were glass bowls with water and white floating candles.  I got the bowls at Wal-Mart, and the candles at candlesjustonline.com  I got the roses at Costco for $14/dozen.  I also made the toss bouquet out of red roses from Costco.  I got some artifical fall leaves from Wal-Mart and used those to decorate the arch we used in the ceremony, we also put them on the tables.  We had about 115 guests.  You can check out some pictures from the wedding/reception at my website http://stardustsweetee.tripod.com.  The fabric that's on the arch and the head table I got at Hancock Fabrics for about $10 total.  \n\nI tested out how I wanted the centerpieces to look before I bought 15 of the bowls and a bunch of candles.  I got one bowl and small package of floating candles, one little sprig of artifical leaves, and used my coffee table (even though it's square).  I set them out in different ways until I liked it...I asked his opinion, but of course, he didn't have one...\n\nWe made the chocolates that we gave to guests...Went to a cake decorating store and bought a brick (literally!) of chocolate, molds shaped like leaves, and some flavoring.  Melted the chocolate down, added flavor to the colored chocolate and poured it into the molds, let it set, and then filled the boxes I got at Weddingchannel.com (in the wedding shop) for $25/fifty boxes, the personalization was free, and tied a little red ribbon on the box.  Got the ribbon at Hancock Fabrics for 75 cents a spool.\n\nPlease feel free to email me with any questions/specifics, I'd love to help you!\nStarDustSweetee@yahoo.com
790608
I got married at a b&b ....it was intimate ....not pricey and very nice!
505923
my husband and I got married in our back yard, we had a judged come to our house and my sisters did the decorations, and my mom made our cake. we payed a friend to make the food. we just had our parents and close friend come. after that we rented a room at a hotel for two days. and just enjoyed our time together. and we spent $250 dollars.
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I think the average cost of a wedding dress is around $1500. I spent $350 on mine at a JC Penny outlet store. David's Bridal often has $99 specials on wedding dresses. Some dresses go up into the 10s of thousands and some middle class families are willing to spend that amount on those dresses.\nWhat are you willing to shell out? I'd rather save the money for a house, retirement or a REALLY nice vacation.
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anwhere above $45 or so.  I guess it depends on the venue though.