This whole wedding thing has got me down. OK, not that I don't want to have the wedding, or that I hate weddings, it's the process of figuring out how to to have one without digging ourselves into a giant wormhole of debt from which we will never escape that's the most frustrating. We sort of know what we want...something on the small side, in a natural setting, DIY as much as possible. The "like-to-have"s are falling by the wayside (i.e., a live band, most caterers), as we've discovered how absolutely obnoxious prices become as soon as the word "wedding" is uttered.
For instance, the Picnic House in Prospect Park is $4000 just to rent for eight hours. That doesn't include food or anything. I could rent a giant farmhouse in Provence for a week for less than half that (just look on craigslist). The average price for most caterers, catering halls and restaurants in the NY area hovers around $150 PER PERSON. And that's on top of a rental fee for the space (usually). WTF? Did your food just get 10 times better or something? If I spent $150 on taking myself out to dinner, I could practically go to Nobu or something.
The wedding industry is ridiculous, and the more I see, the less and less I want to have anything to do with it. Perhaps Wayne and I will just rent a house up in Vermont for a week and cook for everyone who shows up.
Oh yes, and according to some statistic I found, the average wedding costs $22,000.
let's see if we can do it for less than $5000.
Posted by tracie at July 21, 2005 02:35 PMI'm contemplating getting married at the Picnic House and I was thinking the same thing. WTF?!
If you see anything decent, definitely email me because I am getting more and more frustrated by the day. On a lighter note, my friend and I went to a sample sale today and she found a wedding dress for $300 with a matching veil for $10. This is a $3,000 dress and $1,000 veil. Christos was having a sample sale on 37th street. It ends tomorrow.