No,
But they all started hitting up sterling heights CDJR unit they got audited too.
There are certain things you can’t cheap out on.
Photographer: can’t have shitty pics to remember the day for the next 40 years. Especially if it’s important to her. Are you gonna remember saving $1000 30 years later looking at your mediocre pics taken by a high schooler?
Dj/band: I used to bartender weddings at a country club weekly and attended plenty more. When the DJ sucks, the night is boring and the dance floor is empty, and people want to leave early. Guests remember this more than the food you serve. Boggles my mind that some of these guys call themselves DJ’s and can’t read a room. Of course, this depends on your crowd.
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It’s funny, maybe things will change. My fiancée wanted to do an elopement or something very small until we got engaged. Now she wants a more traditional wedding. I was the opposite; I wanted traditional and post-engagement I really got into the elopement idea. Looks like she’ll get her way and we’ll have the wedding, but I’m happy with that.
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Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. That said, this thread made me tired just reading about the planning. I am a woman and realized I would never want to go through with a wedding of any significant size, lol
I would have never thought about some of the great tips suggested. One thing is sure; the Leasehackr community is a well-rounded and smart one!
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I remember those !
I am glad I married someone with the same mindset as me. No expensive big wedding. We bought a house instead before getting married and had a ceremony in our backyard. It was perfect. 25 people, had a local restaurant cater, and did our own booze all for about $800. Guests loved it and we still get comments it was the favorite wedding they’ve been to. No long wait between ceremony and dinner, etc. We had a good haul in gifts of about $3,500 so pretty good ROI 
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I think it all depends on where you live in the US/world that determines the overall cost. A wedding in a major city for 300 guests is substantially more than one in the midwest.
We had 300 guests at our wedding, 95% were from my wife’s side. After paying for the band, venue (which included booze, apps, dinner of a surf/turf, cake, lighting, transportation, etc), We were right around the $90k mark. This was at a venue in downtown Philadelphia, with one of the best, IMO, caterers.
With all of that said, I’d imagine their costs have gone up as well, 90K in 2019 is probably more like 110-125k today.
(Another) Interview with Gretchen Culver about Minnie Weddings from Marketplace yesterday
OP, please head to Wedmunds for that information
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You definitely want to find out the residual and moneyfactor…both will play a key roll in your happiness.
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Hack for getting Mickey and Minnie Mouse to show up at your wedding for no additional cost!*
*just don’t feed the guests and blow all the food budget on the mascots
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Residual and Mf are inversely related in marriage 
i would burn the wedding down if i was a guest
Current residual is rivaling the frontier at 99%. Likely to be negative equity by the end of the 84 month loan
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MSDs accepted but do not bump the money factor.
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I would have 100% fished out my cash gift envelope/gift and walked out while they were wining and dining with Micky and Minnie.
Just to keep some tips coming:
Just placed a $3000 deposit for the venue. I had my fiancé open a Chase Sapphire Preferred to place it for 60,000 points (Chase claims it’s equal to $750 for travel). Going to use that to help offset some honeymoon costs.
I will have a $6k deposit to pay in the next month, and was thinking about opening an Amex Plat. $6k gets 150k points or about $3000.
Can I get the card, pay the $, get the points, redeem them in say February to book our honeymoon, then cancel the card before the annual fee? Or will they take the points back / Id he on the hook somehow for the value I redeemed them for?
Our honeymoon won’t be until October next year, and I definitely don’t want to pay the $700 annual fee as it’s not worth it to me at this stage of my life. But if I can’t cancel the card before the fee hits and keep the points / the value derived from them, then is it even worth it?
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The fee hits your account in the first month.
The points will deposit within 2 weeks of hitting the 6k threshold.
You can use the points for the honeymoon and cancel before the next year renews (annual fee charged) if you choose.