It depends what your budget is allowing and how many guests you are having. Generally for a medium to fancy wedding it's $26 - $100/plate plus tax. Shop around and get different quotes. If it's too expensive there is nothing wrong with having a beautiful outdoor wedding and hiring a caterer to have a delicious buffet for your guests.
Your gift should be at least the cost of your dinner. So if your dinner is $25 per plate, your gift should be at least $25 per person.
A cheap wedding reception? Are you a red neck? Or marrying your sibling? Then don't go for a cheap wedding reception. They cost as much as a deposit on a house or more.
An average wedding in Ghana costs about 150million cedis. The cost of hiring the place for the reception and the food and drinks cost the most.
The average cost of alcohol for all guests of a wedding is about $1200, but is very dependent on your number of guests and reception venue.
It costs about $5,000 to rent banquet halls for a wedding reception
Have a small wedding and a reception at ? Not much sense in going into debt to marry the one you love.
you can't have weddings at longwood gardens, only the reception
The average cost of wedding decorations is about $600, many times this is included within wedding venue and reception packages, so this may be zero in many cases. You can use our wedding budget calculator in the source section to better estimate the average cost your wedding.
No it certainly is not inappropriate to contact people who have not RSVP'd the bride and groom to let them know if they are coming to the wedding and it is the guests that were invited and did not reply that are extremely rude with poor etiquette. The bride has to know how many people are coming because at most weddings when dinner is served at the reception the cost is generally by the plate (meaning one plate per guest.) Contact each person that did not reply as some people who lack etiquette assume the bride or groom would know they would be coming to the wedding.
Traditionally most of the wedding cost (ceremony and reception) are paid by the bride's family. In modern times this is not expected.
What is considered a "good" wedding dress to wear during the reception depends on the bride. Some brides prefer to wear the same wedding dress during the wedding ceremony and the reception. Other brides prefer to change into something different, often something that's easier to move around in as they may be going from table to table greeting guests and/or dancing a lot. A "good" wedding dress to wear during the reception is whatever suits the bride as far as style, comfort, and cost.
Las Vegas weddings average around $2,000. This includes the cost of the service as well as the reception.