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Your Reality Check Bounced posted: 06 May at 2:58 pm
You can if you keep it really small. You get your wedding and honeymoon two for the price of one.
abc posted: 07 May at 11:44 am
no it doesn’t save money, they actually end up costing more…..in this economy, you won’t have a lot of guests who will be able to fork out the money to attend a destination wedding either…..
slim b posted: 07 May at 7:37 pm
I’m Irish and I got married at home…all in all it cost us about 24 grand (19 grand sterling at the time). Then last year my cousin got married on a private hotel beach in lanzarote. Ours was expensive but we did manage to have all our family and friends there whereas my cousin’s way sort of spread the cost around so everyone had to pay a couple of grand on the holiday to go to the wedding. Hews was small but beautiful but even if I had the chance to do it over again, I would stick to a home wedding. That way you’re leaving nobody out. Congrats and good luck by the way!
melouofs posted: 09 May at 8:11 pm
I don’t think a destination wedding = money savings. I had one last year, and we still spend as much as we probably would have if we’d hosted a local wedding. The difference is, with our destination wedding, we were only 33 people, but if we’d have had a local wedding, there would have been like 300 people there. Because of the airfare and hotels we paid for our families, it cost us quite a bit for the destination wedding, but we would have spend ALOT more on the reception if we had a local wedding. We still spent the money, it just went to different expenses.
I loved the wedding we had, and if I could do it all over again, I would want it exactly the same. The thought of the traditional 300 person grand affair has zero appeal to me.
Stiffler posted: 12 May at 6:30 pm
No it doesn’t save all that much money.
Brother in law was doing a destination wedding and it would have cost them $15,000 for the wedding, plus flight and accommodation for their time there. So it wasn’t much of a saving, and the guests had to pay thousands for travel just to attend.
I like the backyard wedding idea and I would have been happy to have a backyard wedding if we had the space. That would have saved us about $10,000 (or more if we catered) off our current $20,000 budget at a reception venue.
Christina posted: 13 May at 9:33 pm
I think the main scenario that saves money is a destination wedding with just the couple and a couple of witnesses. If you have the same size wedding you would have had at home, I would assume that would be more expensive than home since you have to pay for travel, and then pay for lodging on top of everything else.
I looked at this option a bit, but it would have been just the two of us. It would have been cheaper than a full blown wedding at home, but just the two of us at home would also be cheaper than abroad.
<3 MuNcHy <3 posted: 16 May at 2:10 am
You know, that’s a really great question! I guess it all depends! For me, I’d like to rent one of those giant beach houses with a private beach and have all of my guests stay there! And then make sure there is a separate guest house for my fella and I to stay in after the wedding! If you do it like that, then you get your wedding and honeymoon all at the same time and if you do it right, it can be cheaper!
Kristy posted: 17 May at 9:55 pm
Honestly you can spend as much as you want on either. If you do two people in church, two attendants, parents and siblings with a cake and punch reception you can do home really inexpensively.
If you do destination where it’s the couple and thier parents and siblings it can be less expensive especially if you get married at your honeymoon destination (like Sandals).
However, you can easily inflate the cost of either by adding on things that you want or upgrading your packages.
Good luck!
Blunt posted: 18 May at 2:50 pm
My destination wedding did not save me any money, but it did save my sanity, and peace of mind is priceless.
We spent $30.000 for our weekend bash on a beach resort for 38 people. I loved my wedding and I wish I could go back in time and do it all over again. My wedding planner took care of everything and I didn;t have one single thing to worry about. Everything was bountiful and splendid, the venue was magnificent, and what’s best, the people that I really wanted to be there all attended.
We never wanted a large event with lots of stress. We wanted a luxurious experience for a select group of friends and family and we got exactly that. People are still talking about or wedding!
Our guests had to spend on average about $1000 per person to attend between lodging, rental cars, plane tickets etc. so it may not be economical for your guests.
Good luck
Garnet Glitter posted: 21 May at 8:13 pm
It is never economical for guests….
For example, we live in Nashville, Tn and our niece lives in Lake Placid, NY……that is over a thousand miles away from us. In order to attend her wedding, we needed two flights (one from Nashville to Cincinnati, Ohio, then the second from Cincinnati to Albany, NY where we stayed overnight (we flew all day with a 1 hr lay-over in between. Since there are no direct flights from Nashville to Albany or Lake Placid and the closest airport to Lake Placid is in Albany, the next day we rented a car with four wheel drive (heavy snow in Lake Placid all winter long) and drove over 2 hours to get there. Since the only way out of towners could make a bridal shower it was held the night before the wedding and after the wedding rehearsal. We needed accommodations for that night & the night after the wedding. We drove back to Albany on Sunday, stayed overnight again, then flew home to Nashville on Monday…and again two flights with a layover in Cincinnati…so between plane airfares, car rentals, hotel accommodations and meals outside the wedding reception I lost count after we passed the 1,000.00 dollar mark. (Not including any gifts, new outfits, haircuts, etc…..)
And this is the same country.
So no, there’s nothing economical about destination weddings.
As far as making it a vacation, we spend more time travelling then ‘vacationing’ those five days….I’m used to very cold snowy weather having been born raised in NJ & lived in upstate NY for many years…but the hubby is a Peach from Atlanta where snow is rare and temps are milder in winter-he asked if we could in future only do Lake Placid in the Summer lol)
Celeste posted: 22 May at 3:10 am
You save $ because your guests pay for themselves to attend, but then again you might not get too many guests that can afford to attend.
SirenSong posted: 25 May at 3:39 am
Not usually. You have to shop around and compare the expenses of a destination wedding vs a wedding at home. Typically the biggest expenses of a destination wedding are airfare and accommodations. If you choose to have a reception at home later, you haven’t saved a dime in the process and have actually spent more. The ceremony itself at home doesn’t cost that much really. You don’t have to fly anywhere or stay at a hotel for a week. But the majority of the expense at weddings is the reception and by having one upon your return home, you end up spending more in the long run than if you just had a wedding at home to begin with.