{"id":45033,"date":"2017-08-02T00:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/plan-a-wedding-for-30000\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T21:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:10:40","slug":"plan-a-wedding-for-30000","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/plan-a-wedding-for-30000\/","title":{"rendered":"How to plan a wedding for $30,000"},"content":{"rendered":"
Planning on spending about $30,000 on your wedding? Using the free Easy Weddings Budget Calculator<\/a>, we came up with the breakdown of each category of the spend for your wedding. Here’s how to plan a wedding for $30,000:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’re looking at a dress budget of about $2,100, $600 for accessories and $300 to spend on your hair and makeup. Then you have about $300 left over for your partner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You will have just under $13,000 to spend on your reception, including $9,000 for food and service and about $2,500 for drinks, and a hire fee of about $1,500.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If the ceremony location<\/a> has a fee, you could safely allocate a few hundred dollars, but most couples save this by having their ceremony at the same location as their venue. You may still have to pay a small fee for the ceremony, but this shouldn’t be much. You will have about $1200 to spend on your marriage celebrant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You will have about $600 in your budget for your wedding bands<\/a>. Traditionally, wedding bands are simpler than engagement rings, and you don’t necessarily need to have both rings cost the same. You could allocate 70% of the ring budget to one of you and 30% to the other.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n You’ll have about $2,400 for photography and $1500 for video. To ensure you fit within the budget, you may need to have a time limited package or have the same vendor provide both as a package, which can be more affordable.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’ll have about $600 in your wedding budget to spend on decorations <\/a>and $1,500 for flowers- which should be enough to get you all of the arrangements you are after.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your budget will allow about $1800 for music and entertainment at your wedding, which is enough to get a great DJ, band <\/a>or wedding entertainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’ll have about $600 to spend on invitations<\/a>\u00a0and $150 to spend on other stationery, whether it be Save The Dates, thank you cards or something else.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’ll have about $600 left to spend on gifts for each other, your bridal party and your parents and $450 for bomboniere<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’ll have about $900 to spend on an amazing wedding cake<\/a>! Be sure to do a taste test- most cake makers can do this for you or send out some samples if you live remotely.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’ll have roughly $600 to spend your wedding day transport! Enquire with wedding car suppliers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nDress, suit, and accessories<\/h2>\n
Reception<\/h2>\n
Ceremony<\/h2>\n
Rings<\/h2>\n
Photography and videography<\/h2>\n
Decorations and wedding hire<\/h2>\n
Wedding entertainment<\/h2>\n
Stationery<\/h2>\n
Wedding gifts<\/h2>\n
Wedding cake or desserts<\/h2>\n
Wedding cars<\/h2>\n
Wedding night accommodation<\/h2>\n