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bluegreen08
OBAMA/BIDEN '08!
Member since 4/07 8029 total posts
Wedding Date:
8/17/2008 11:30 AM
Wed. Location:
North Ritz Club
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
thank you to everyone who answered. the results were pretty different from what i expected! 
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Posted 4/5/08 10:18 PM 
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JayLi2007
Board Fanatic
Member since 2/06 968 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/3/2007 12:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Oheka Castle A+++
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
We got back about 25% of the total cost of the wedding.
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Posted 4/5/08 10:23 PM
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gemmifer
Enjoying 1yr :) & change...
Member since 1/08 4367 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/13/2007 4:30 PM
Wed. Location:
Jedediah Hawkins Inn&Morgan's Penthouse NYC 11/30
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Keep in mind this is all relative to the type of wedding your having ,what venue you chose, the night you chose (Sat night most  )and also how many out of towers are coming. Usually they don't understand the dynamic of NY weddings and or they feel since they are traveling they shave off what they would have given due to the expense. The less people you have at your wedding usually the better return. But AGAIN all relative given all the above factors.
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Posted 4/5/08 10:30 PM
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teenigrrl
under contract
Member since 4/07 5129 total posts
Wedding Date:
2/17/2008 11:30 AM
Wed. Location:
Westbury Manor
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
if you take away the rings and HM, we made money. pretty much, we made everything back except our HM. we also had a sunday day wedding in feb, and that's as frugal as you can get. however, most gifts that we received did not reflect that it was a cheaper plate pp than a sat evening wedding in june.
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Posted 4/5/08 10:34 PM
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yswedding
married and in love
Member since 12/07 1442 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/21/2008 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Vineyard
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Posted by donegal419
We made back more than 100% of our wedding costs. .... we paid for everything ourselves.... so in that sense, we only made about $8K. If our parents had paid for our wedding, we would have done very nicely.
 can I invite your guests to my wedding!??!?!
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Posted 4/5/08 10:41 PM
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beram63
Yes we can!
Member since 8/07 3392 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/11/2009 6:15 PM
Wed. Location:
West Sayville Country Club
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
great question! thanks for posting.
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Posted 4/6/08 8:00 AM
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Summer07Bride
Back to School
Member since 6/06 4628 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/21/2007 2:30 PM
Wed. Location:
Fox Hollow A
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
We made about 60% back. We, however, did not pay for the entire wedding ourselves, so we got back over 100+% of what we put in.
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Posted 4/6/08 9:18 AM
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Cpt2007
Back to life, back to reality
Member since 1/07 4962 total posts
Wedding Date:
12/8/2007 3:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Danford's on the Sound
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Posted by HamptonsBride
i think it depends on the type of guests you have..at least half of ours were OOT family on DH's side...they spent less (understandably) and bought registry items, we also got 3 gifts of art (his family is very talented)...but they all had to travel & pay for hotels, airfare, etc...we didn't even come close to "breaking even"...but we didn't budget our wedding on how much we'd "make" in gifts...just basically accepted the fact that the $ we spent was gone..haha
same for us. we never expected to get a single check, and budgeted on what we would be able to afford (we paid for everything ourselves). whatever we did get is being saved to be a down payment on our eventual first home.
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Posted 4/6/08 9:27 AM
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irishgrl1017
Married!!!
Member since 12/07 1657 total posts
Wedding Date:
7/11/2008 3:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Swan Club
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
I doubt we will make money. But like you said thats not the point.
I dont think many people realize how much a plate is nowadays....but it is waht it is!!!
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Posted 4/6/08 12:04 PM
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donegal419
I'm a Mrs. !!!
Member since 12/05 4152 total posts
Wedding Date:
2/17/2007 11:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Stewart Manor Country Club
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Posted by yswedding
can I invite your guests to my wedding!??!?!
 seriously though, i have to say our family and good family friends of our parents were unbelievably generous. most of them gave us $500.00 or more.
also, i had my wedding in the winter during the day at a very inexpensive hall. that really made all the difference.
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Posted 4/6/08 12:49 PM
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Mrs. V 2008
Finally finished my review!!!!
Member since 9/06 20793 total posts
Wedding Date:
8/15/2008 4:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Watermill
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Posted by DGoldfarb0776
Posted by tcotier
Posted by Bride 2 Be
since my parents are paying for a lot of the wedding..we will hopefully make a profit...from what i hear you usually see about 1/2 of what you paid
I'd be happy with 1/2... FH's parents are paying for most of it. 1/2 would be a nice start towards a down payment on a house for us...
Exactly! DH and I made enough that we can start really buying new bedroom and living room furniture, and still have some left over since we have our apartment already.
Also we're planning on using it to pay off some debt (non-wedding) so that we can truly say we're debt free.
It's going to be great having a bit of extra cash.
1/2 would be awesome!! im planning on putting it towards furniture also!!!! and alittle bit in an account we will not touch (to be used for emergencies as they come up!)
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Posted 4/6/08 12:51 PM
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Colleen214
Board Fanatic
Member since 3/07 930 total posts
Wedding Date:
11/17/2007 3:00 PM
Wed. Location:
The Woodlands
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Posted by Summer07Bride
We made about 60% back. We, however, did not pay for the entire wedding ourselves, so we got back over 100+% of what we put in.
same here. both our families and older, family friend type couples were extremely generous, however, people from out-of-state were not. most people from out of state gave us about 1/3 what their plate actually cost, although we were just glad they traveled to see us, so we didn't mind. other people's generosity more than made up for the people that gave little (or the few that gave nothing!!)
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Posted 4/6/08 2:24 PM
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queenschic
Board Enthusiast
Member since 7/08 235 total posts
Wedding Date:
10/28/2008 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
The Inn at New Hyde Park
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
BUMP !
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Posted 10/10/08 1:31 PM
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VickiR510
256 Invited - Y=59 N= 4
Member since 2/08 5246 total posts
Wedding Date:
2/14/2009 2:00 PM
Wed. Location:
THE ONLY PLACE FOR US!
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
FH & I usually give at least 300 a wedding. Unless ts family then we give more. And if we are in teh weddign believe it or not we up it. But as for our wedding. I spent what we wanted without breaking our bank. Ilove everything i have choosen & wont change a thing or spend a penny less. Im not to worried about making it back. I know that its a arty & people will give what they can. And thats very sweet. Iknow my family & Fh's family will go above & beyond. Do i hope we make back teh RH at least of course but Im not going into anything with expectations.
Message edited 10/10/2008 2:15:09 PM.
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Posted 10/10/08 2:14 PM
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shcole08
offically Mrs. Heinze!
Member since 7/07 2236 total posts
Wedding Date:
9/27/2008 7:00 PM
Wed. Location:
the woodlands
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
way less than we payed. we got back like maybe 25% but, I also got alot of gifts.
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Posted 10/10/08 2:17 PM
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MrsLarrea2B
Board Fanatic
Member since 12/07 873 total posts
Wedding Date:
3/14/2009 7:00 PM
Wed. Location:
Fox Hollow
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
This is such a great topic. Thanks for posting
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Posted 10/10/08 2:36 PM
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gip32680
Board Fanatic
Member since 8/08 278 total posts
Wedding Date:
2/15/2009 12:00 AM
Wed. Location:
Fox Hollow
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Re: A Q for the married ladies: Total cost of wedding v. amount of gift $$$$
Haven't gotten married yet, but we're not expecting to get back what we paid out in total. We'll probably get back what we paid for the RH and that's only because we are only paying $55pp (we're getting married in Feb.'09). So it's more feasible to get that amount back versus total amount paid. Not only that ,we're not having a lot of people (80 max) but the expenses really add up with everything else...photographer, dress, dj, and even with the diy projects.
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Posted 10/10/08 3:02 PM
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