How much do wedding cakes typically cost?
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My cake has 3 tiers, and sugar flowers, 2 colors on it...Paid $200 for it, fed close to 200 people, if I remember correct. I suggest using a favorite bakery or maybe even Wal-Mrt.....They have beautiful wedding cakes and they taste good too.....GL;)
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First pick a day! then find you Pastor,Justice of the pease,Who ever you are going to have Marry you! That is usually the hardest part to get set.Make sure they are available the day that you want. Marrige license tend to expire within 60 days I think so figure that into the day you have set with your "Pastor".Week days are cheeper if your going for an inside wedding/reception.Out side is even cheeper. We did out side.Do you have or want a theme? Example: Hawaiian Theme go to Oriental Trading on line,it is a part/novelty company they have tons of party supplys in bulk. Based on you theme/ colors what kind of dress. In our wedding that was the most expencive.My bride's maids agreed to buy there own dresses,they actually had fun picking out matching dresses. We bought shirts for the Grooms men (We Know Guys)If you want it done right do it your self. and who knows what they would have came back with! any way...\nCake I did my own cake. 3 teirs white and chocolate. White frosting.My frosting recipe(feel lucky!) Mix powdered sugar and unsalted butter and only a table spoon of vanilla with about a cup of milk.Awsome frosting!The rest could be purchased at a rental place near you based on how much you are ready to spend. A big rental place is usually good about helping with number of guests and how far you can go on your budget. This is all if you choose to do an out doors wedding.\nHopefully I have been helpful. If you need any more advice e-mail me brudneyflower@yahoo.com
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There's no way to answer that without more info. Dresses can cost from $50-$5,000. Is the groom renting a tux or doing this in a nice suit? Can you make do with a rectangular grocery store cake? Are you all teetotalers? And is a "nice" honeymoon two nights in the mountains, or a week in Europe?
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You should be able to find someone who can keep you under $3,000.  Look around and do your research.  On The Knot, you can search for photographers in your area and narrow it by price range.  If you know people who’ve gotten married fairly recently, ask them who they used and how it all turned out.  See if you can find a photographer who is experienced and who will give you the negatives or a disc with the pictures (depending on whether they use film or digital).  My mom is a photographer, and she’s done this.  Of course, it takes time for them to shoot your pictures, but any good photographer is going to go through your pictures, weed out the bad ones and possibly edit some of the others, so if you get the film or a disc, that saves them time, which means you don’t have to pay them for that extra time.  It might be more work for you to go through your pictures and put together your own album, though.  Photographers also have access to labs that develop high-quality pictures, which is especially important if you’re getting anything in a large size (11x14, for example).  If you really need to cut back, see if you can hire someone for the ceremony and the formal pictures, and find someone else (a student, for example) to shoot the reception.  I wouldn’t recommend having a friend or relative do it (unless they’re a professional, but even then, consider some of this) because they will want to enjoy the wedding, they probably won’t get anywhere near as good of pictures, they won’t have the same equipment, and if something goes wrong, it can be very stressful.  Some people don’t have any of these problems and they just want basic pics, so it all works out.  My friends had a relative shoot their wedding and the pictures are terrible – most of them are blurry, the lighting was wrong, and the bride was very disappointed.  Also, don’t waste your money on disposable cameras at the reception – they’re too much money for such low quality, and depending on your guests, you may just get a bunch of nothing.  Good luck!
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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.
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I have know idea how every one could get this wrong. If eggs are $12 per 12 they are $1 each so therefore 100 eggs will cost $100. Jules. Australia.
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Weddings are way out of hand!  They can cost a normal person{not rich}  $25,000.00 .....  are you kidding me or what?   I want a party that will go on for a freaking month for that much money.  I think I'd rather have a nice ceremony, with a rockin' party and the cost would be only 3 or 4 thousand dollars.  It is a waste to spend so much.
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I am a part-time event and wedding coordinator.  This is the information I give to clients.\n\nFor close friends/family; it is expected that a wedding gift will be in the neighborgood of $75 to $100 (or more depending upon the relationship).\nFor a friend/work associate/lesser acquaintance; $40 to $60\n\nShower gifts are typically in the range of $25 to $35 dollars no matter what the relationship.  If you are hosting a shower, it is not necessary for you to give an additional gift because the shower is considered your gift.\n\nIt is customary for the shower gift to cost less than the wedding gift.  Remember that the bride and groom will be appreciative of whatever you give.\n\nGood luck!\n\nCheers,\nShauna
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The estimated national average is 20k...however, I have seen them done for 10-15k and I've seen them done for 100k +...it jsut depends on how much money and time you're willing to put into things. Orange County is an expensive area all around, so you might have to go looking elsewhere to find what you need. Wedding dresses are typically cheaper in smaller towns and you can get favors online.
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there are lots of great ways to do a wedding on a budget - if you want to have everyone there - why not see if you can have it in a family or friends back yard?!  if not try local city parks & fire houses.  \n\nif you have a local culinary school, contact them and ask if they have any students who would be interested in baking a cake - or catering the entire wedding - my friend used to make 2 tier wedding cakes for $60 while she was going thru culinary school!!  around here they would have cost $300 from a bakery!!  And they were beautiful and delicious!! she now owns her own bakery specializing in baking wedding cakes!!\n\nfor center pieces & little gifts try ebay do a searech for "wedding bulk" or "wedding wholesale" you can get all the fancy little things for just pennies!!\n\nfor a dress - first ask relatives - especially older ones - many would be honored if you would wear thier dress - if not check ebay - weddings get canceled every day - and they sell off those non returnable gowns dirt cheap!!\n\nask a friend or relative with a digital camera to do the photography - or call the local community college and ask if they offer photography - talk to the teacher of the class maybe they or a student would do it cheap!!\n\nand most of all - congratulations & enjoy your day!!
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Have a small bridal party, one or two bridesmaids/groomsmen and ask them to pay for their own clothing for the day(or No bridesmaids/groomsmen).  \nHave the ceremony at the church where you are a member...if you have a church.  They often give lower prices and provide a lot of ammenities.  For example my chuch only cost $200 and they had a wedding/reception coordinator, did all the clean up after wards, served at the reception, provided plates/serving ware/utensils/cups and mixed the punch for the reception.  \nUse fake/silk flowers.\nHave a cake/punch reception instead of serving a meal. \nHave a sheet cake instead of a tiered cake, or have a small tiered cake for the wedding party/parents and a sheet cake to feed all the other people. \nLimit the guest list to Family/extended family. \nMake your invitations or buy them at Staples, Wal-Mart, etc.\nHave a basic ceremony, no unity candle(s).\nKnow what you want, don't let the sales people talk you into bigger/better/more expensive.  \n\nREMEMBER: The wedding day is about you and your soon to be husbands love for each other, not the decorations.
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Tradition.\n\nThe wedding cake as we know it today, with its successively smaller layers, its supporting glass or plastic pillars, fancy hand piped frosting, all came about in 1859, with a confection that commemorated the marriage of one of Queen Victoria's daughters. As is the case with today’s brides, the celebrities of the time moved the public to emulate their fashions, starting with the wealthiest Victorian families first.\n\nFor a white icing, only the most expensive, pure refined sugars could be used; so the whiter the cake, the wealthier the bride’s family must be (as most sugar at the time was browner than today’s refined type). A pure white wedding cake also complemented the bride as the focal point of the wedding, since she too was wearing white as her own symbol of purity.
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Probably around 1,000 dollars. I still buy for my 3 kids and entire intermediate family on hubbys and my side.
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The wedding-industrial complex, or some nutso etiquette expert. Etiquette books were written for wealthy northeastern families to show off their wealth.\n\nFavors should reflect the couple in some way, be affordable, and should be one for every guest or couple attending. Some ideas:\n* CDs (burn your own) with the couple's favorite songs. A CD with labeling kit and print cartridges will run about 45 cents per CD and five minutes of time.\n* Picture frames (large enough to hold a 3x5).\n* candies wrapped in toole (get high-quality candies like toblerone or girardelli, not the generic m&m's without lettering)\n* flowers, either potted, or in bulb form.\n* candles with frosted glass votive.\n\nPeople go nuts over weddings anyway. Try having a wedding, it's suddenly like everything in your life is your family's business. I'm a big fan of marriage, but weddings are just a royal pain and a way to spend lots of money.\n\nWeddings invite intrusiveness on a par second only to having children. It's fun reminding your parents that you don't need approval for your children's names, nor when nor how many children you have.
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depending on the amount of people you have attending the wedding it would be cheaper to go to sams club. They have awesome pin wheel sandwhiches and great dessert trays and veggie trays if you just want finger foods you can also go to\n\nwww.cooks.com\n\nand check out recipes there good luck
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It depends on where his country is, but I had a destination wedding, they specialize in doing weddings in other countries.  You can go to www.destinationweddings.com, and for $50 they will set you up with a representative that will do everything for you - from travel arrangements, venue, officiants, etc.
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I think it varies on which province and where you are getting married. I know my marriage with a Justice of the Peace cost me 150for the Justice of the Peace and 60for the marriage lisence I think. It might have changed but that was 3yrs ago in Alberta Canada.