10 questions about your WEDDING...

1, How long did you plan?
18 months

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned?
£18000 (my parents paid) MUCH more than I planned but I didnt really get much say!

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up?
160/149

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)?
Sugared almonds

5. What season was your wedding in?
Summer

6. What time of day and day of the week was it?
4.30pm on a Friday

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out?
NOT inviting half the family members I havent heard from since.

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it?
The catering. Well worth it

9. What were your colors?
Ivory and emerald green

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which?
Made the favours

1, How long did you plan? 1 year

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? about $6,000

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? 40/40

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? personalized photos of guest and groom/bride and candles

5. What season was your wedding in? Fall

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? Tues during the day

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? Everything went pretty well - can't complain.

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? catering...yes, we have been voted best food at a wedding!

9. What were your colors? Red, black, and white (it was a rose themed wedding)

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? We did pretty much everything ourselves.

1, How long did you plan? - We had to change it several times but it took 11 months from engagement to wedding day.

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? - WITH my dress it was less than $3,000

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? - 100+/45-50

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? - We didn't.

5. What season was your wedding in? - Fall

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? - 11ish, I think? Saturday.

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? - That my FIL would have actually shown up.

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? - My wedding dress was the most expensive thing.

9. What were your colors? - Maroon, light pink.

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? - We pretty much did everything ourselves. All the decorations, food, set up, all of it.

1, How long did you plan?

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned?

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up?

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)?

5. What season was your wedding in?

6. What time of day and day of the week was it?

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out?

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it?

9. What were your colors?

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which?

1. 3 days

2. $21

3. me, him, and the judge

4. na

5. Winter

6. Mid day, I don't remember

7. Everything

8. see # 2

9. Court room brown

10. na

1, How long did you plan? two months

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? 500

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? 25 invited 30 showed

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? none

5. What season was your wedding in? fall (sept 30)

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? 7:00pm tuesday night

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? i can't think of anything i would change

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? really didn't splurge at all, but maybe his tux

9. What were your colors? Blue and yellow

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? i made my own dress does that count?

bump. I'm currently planning, and this is all great stuff. Thanks for posting OP!

1, How long did you plan? We had started planning a big traditional wedding about a year before our wedding date. Then we decided "screw it!" and had a smaller wedding that was planned within 2 months.

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? About $400

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? Just close family and friends, maybe 20 people all together

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? Nope, just booze

5. What season was your wedding in? Summer

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? It wasa saturday, I think like 11am

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? It was perfect, better than any big wedding I could have attempted to plan.

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? My dress, a whopping $30. It was a hippie gauze halter

9. What were your colors? No colors, I wore white and my husband wore a white shirt and khaki shorts

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? I decorated my flip-flops to match my dress cost me $2 lol

1, How long did you plan?

we were engaged for 22 months, I booked the church about 2 hours after he proposed

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned?

umm...I say about $24000, he says $27000 either way we had budgeted for about $25G and got right up there.

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up?

160 invited, about 120 showed.

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)?

Leaf shaped bookmarks with a personalized message on the box that said "thank you for marking this page in our grand adventure"

5. What season was your wedding in?

Fall! Best season of all in Ottawa!

6. What time of day and day of the week was it?

3pm and Saturday

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out?

Nothing, it was an utterly perfect day

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it?

Venue (Museum of Civilization) or Photographer, and yes, both totally worth it.

9. What were your colors?

The full fall pallet, my girls were in Hunter Green (gorgeous) I wore scarlet shoes (and boustiere though that was hidden), chair sashes were bronze, hunter green, olive green, gold, burgundy and copper, had multicoloured foil-wrapped chocolate leaves on the tables, used every fall colour out there in my pomanders and other decorations.

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which?

ha ha SOOO many: centrepieces, pomanders for the aisles/head table, vases for the girls flowers on the head table, table numbers, seating chart, program fans, messages on favours, "brown bag" lunch bags with a map of the route from the church to the reception and tickets to the museum on them for in between ceremony and reception filled with snacks for the guests, ring pillows (bride and groom sock monkeys that were held by my infant nephews as my little brother carried them up the aisle), my cake topper, a photo wall with open frames so the guests could take their pictures in frames, trunk for props for the photo wall, bathroom baskets, flipflop basket, baskets of colouring books for the kiddos, wish tree, guest book, card box, etc.

1, How long did you plan?
About a year

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned?
--$15,000ish

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up?
---150 invited, 120 showed

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)?
---little bags of personalized M&Ms

5. What season was your wedding in?
--Late spring - May

6. What time of day and day of the week was it?
--Friday 5pm

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out?
--Nothing

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it?
--Food. The food was fantastic. People to this day remark on how good the food was

9. What were your colors?
--light blue and silver

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which?
--we did the favors. i created the invitations. we created wall hangings of "love quotes." I created a logo that branded any and all printed material. i played live music (avatar is from my reception).

We eloped, so my answers will be somewhat different...

1, How long did you plan? Less than a month.

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? Including engagement ring and both wedding bands, less than 4K.

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? 2 invited, 2 showed up (bride and groom). If you count the justice of the peace, the inn keeper and his wife (who served as witnesses/ photographer/ videographer/ bartender) we had 5 at the ceremony.

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? Not applicable.

5. What season was your wedding in? Late fall. Mid November, going to have to start thinking of something...

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? Evening on a Wednesday.

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? Nothing.

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? Engagement rings and wedding bands. Yes. Love them, although we can't wear them anymore, all of them need to be sized down and we don't have the $ to do it right now.

9. What were your colors? Not applicable.

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? The whole thing.

Personally, I think big weddings are over rated. Why spend that much money?
Anyway,
1. 2months
2.About $800
3.About 20 and all showed
4. nothing
5. winter (in January)
6. 2:00 on a saturday
7.I would not have the reception at the church, and I would not let my mother get the photographer, I would get a good one!
8. probably the tuxes yes, it was worth it, but we also didn't get very expensive ones, just basic
9. blue and white
10. This one is probably going to shock most ladies, but I borrowed my dress. I couldn't see spending a wad of money on a dress I was going to wear ONE time, and then stuff in a closet. I borrowed a dress from a couple that had been married for many years, because I am superstitious when it comes to things like that. We have been married for 15 years now. I have never regretted not buying a dress.

1, How long did you plan? 1 yr 1/2

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? 30,000

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? we invited 200 ppl. We had more show up at wedding at church and 180 at reception

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? chocolate cigars for the men and dove bubbles

5. What season was your wedding in? summer

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? 3:30 Saturday

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? would of had my vows on paper instead of going off the head

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? yes... I'm married 8 yrs and still in love

9. What were your colors? silver

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? I did most of my stuff online and DIY. This did save tons

I got married about a year ago.

1, How long did you plan? About a year.

2. How much did you spend? (sorry if that's personal) Was this more/less than you planned? Total on everything was about $11,000. It was about what we thought.

3. How many people were invited/ how many showed up? about 50. Everyone we expected would show up did.

4. What did you give out for favors (if you had them)? Sand dollars with a charm on them

5. What season was your wedding in? It was technically fall, since it was Labor Day weekend.

6. What time of day and day of the week was it? 4:30pm on a Saturday

7. 1 thing you would change about the way it turned out? Would have planned it so that my hair didn't take so long and run into my photo time.

8.Biggest splurge (financially)? Was it worth it? The restaurant it was held at, and yes.

9. What were your colors? We didn't have a wedding party, so no real colors...the napkins on the table were seafoam green, and the colors on the cake and flowers were tropical.

10. Did you do any DIY project to save money? If so, which? Centerpieces, they were fishbowls filled halfway with beach sand, with a candle in the middle and shells around. The bowls were borrowed, the sand free from the beach, and the candles and shells from the dollar store.

My wedding was in Vegas….it was small, intimate and a BLAST! LOL

1, 1.5 years (although it would have been 1 year but we had to post-pone due to a death in the immediate family)

2. Spent around $8000… (that includes my trip and the money I spent while in Vegas)

3. Invited 30, about 13 people were able to attend in person (although lots watched the wedding live online!)

4. I gave out Lottery Tickets!

5. Summer

6. Thursday night at 8:30pm – Ceremony. 9:00pm – Reception.

7. Nothing.

8. Open Bar – and yes (although everyone was so hungover from the night before there wasn’t as much drinking as I had hoped! Haha)

9. Red / Black / White

10. Invitations / Thank You Cards