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Old March 1st, 2005, 00:27   #8
Kristie
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Default Re: Paying for your wedding?

Nope, no mice here! but we do have 3 cats (they keep the critters away)!! heck, we'll even get some friends to valet the cars! haha.. we have a guestroom that has already been dubbed "honeymoon suite 69" from another after wedding party we've hosted in the past.

ok.. our was approx $6,000 for the wedding/reception itself (everything inclusive) including: the chapel, photographer, videographer, flowers, music, minister, 4 course food/drink (including 2 free drinks for everyone), reception area decor & dance floor. it was a 20 minute ceremony with rat pack music (you can bring your own CD), 4 hr reception.

my dress, i found for $300, $75 for doug's tux, hair at the salon for us 3 girls was $150, napkins, invitations and on and on...

we paid $150 for elvis to appear and play 3 songs, do pictures & autographs for a good hr or longer. people still talk about our reception to this day!!

we paid $500 for 4 hrs worth of DJ/MC's.. They'd done so many weddings at the resort that we had no problems at all with anything...they did a great job of interacting with our crowd of 60 people.

all in all, We paid about $7,000-$8,000 total for 60 people, had it paid off in 6 months....Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas was THE best money we've EVER spent.. we saved most of our $$ for our 2 honeymoons...a weekend in Frankfurt, Germany & an Alaska Cruise at our 1 year anniversary.

Can't beat having 2 official honeymoons! I'm still pretty tickled on how much $$ we saved just so WE could have some fun!
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