{"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

\"destination<\/p>\n

Dress, suit, and accessories<\/h2>\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

\"Close<\/p>\n

Reception<\/h2>\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

\"Champagne<\/p>\n

Ceremony<\/h2>\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

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Rings<\/h2>\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

\"three<\/p>\n\n

Photography and videography<\/h2>\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

\"wedding<\/p>\n

Decorations and wedding hire<\/h2>\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

\"Wedding<\/p>\n

Wedding entertainment<\/h2>\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

\"Playing<\/p>\n

Stationery<\/h2>\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

\"Wedding<\/p>\n

Wedding gifts<\/h2>\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

\"Love<\/p>\n

Wedding cake or desserts<\/h2>\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

\"plan<\/p>\n

Wedding cars<\/h2>\n

You’ll have roughly $600 to spend your wedding day transport! Enquire with wedding car suppliers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"plan<\/p>\n

Wedding night accommodation<\/h2>\n

On the wedding night<\/a>, you will have a budget of about $450 left.<\/p>\n

\"plan<\/p>\n

Is it possible to plan a wedding for $30,000?<\/h2>\n

So, after crunching the numbers, it’s definitely possible to\u00a0plan a wedding for $30,000. In fact, last years average wedding budget according to our survey results were $30,985! So spending $30,000 is a really reasonable budget for your wedding day.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22650,"template":"","au_article_tag":[181,1677,256],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/45033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/45033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290548,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/45033\/revisions\/290548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=45033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}