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Cheap venues in California include women's clubs, rec centers, county parks, community association buildings, and some churches, a lot can be under $1000 :)
Just want to answer Jordan's question, "$20,000, is that how much wedding dresses are?" On average, no. $20,000 is on the higher, (much higher) end. On average, wedding dresses are between $500 and $5,000. It is still a lot, but not as high as $20,000.
Unfortunately, I don't have Sara's sewing skills. At best, I can hand-stitch a hole in a shirt or whatever - and it is barely passable. If I had her skills, I would absolutely custom make my own dress. I imagine Sara had spent years to hone her craft. I think even if I spent a year to learn to sew more, I would still end up getting frustrated because the dress wouldn't come out like I would want it to - so I'd end up buying a wedding dress anyways. Lol! That being said, I do have decent graphic design skills, so I will be creating my own wedding stationary. I'm excited to be able to add that personal touch to my wedding should I get married.
I love all of Sara’s DIY decorations and cakes and floral arrangements, and now I want to see her crafting in action. 😂 Jordan vs Sara crafting competition?
Love this! I also have a hard time believing people spend as much money as they do on weddings😶 My wedding didn't cost much either. Venue: Free! Our neighbors owned a christmas tree farm and let us use the barn Dress: Paid $15 at a thrift store and had it altered for $35= $50 Food: my mom cooked everything! Basically a chicken dinner with a fall twist since we got married in autumn. I wanted to pay my parents for all the food they bought (we didn't invite a ton of people but the food was the most expensive part of our wedding) but they wouldn't tell me how much it had cost. Photographer: Free! My aunt took all our photos Hair and make up: also free. My best friend went to cosmetology school so she volunteered to do it, gratis Cake: My then fiance made 3 cheesecakes, because he makes the best cheesecake in the word. Those were approx $35 per cake, so a little over $100 for those I bought a few random decorations for the barn, like a garland for the center pole and some tablecloths but I don't it amounted to more than $50. I skipped some stuff for my wedding that people normally have like bridesmaids and sound. I didn't have any music for the ceremony and just made a cd of my favorite songs to play during the reception afterwards. We dated for a couple months then got engaged and then married 4 months later. We'll be married for 6 years come October. Edited to say I forgot about flowers! My sister grew a lovely patch of fall colored zinnias and I made my bouquet out of them the morning of the wedding. A pack of zinnia seeds is cheap! Less than a buck
@@courtneysokal6590 I don't think they were saying it is bad if people do it is just very expensive. Me personally, I couldn't justify spending that much but if you have the means go ahead.
This reminds me a lot of my wedding! My husband and I just celebrated 21 years of marriage. When we git married we had $2000 and ended up only spending $1600. So many friends and family helped us plan and organize it and it was perfect! My dress was $42.02 at an outlet store, the cake was gifted to us, the large backyard for our reception was free (people jumped on the large trampoline and played football), the tux rentals and church fee were the most expensive things! The flowers only cost $75. I got so many compliments, it was a great day.
Love it! Inexpensive weddings statistically last longer :) My husband and I got married at a chapel in Helen, GA for around $3000. And our engagement was 9 months. I agree with not having a long engagement...
Helen is a beautiful place! I'm sure it was gorgeous! And I agree about not having a long engagement.. I think drawing it out for too long can steal some of the joy away and just be hard in general, especially for Christian couples who are trying to stay pure until marriage!
Anybody else now DYING to see Sara do more cake decorating??! I lovelovelove cake decorating and always wished I got into it. That's amazing! Also Jordan's description for this video 😭😭😭
it's honestly really refreshing seeing a wedding that's like $3000 instead of like $30000 haha and Sara was sooo creative too! Like making wedding favors that are also decorations? brilliant!!
Wow! I can’t believe how timely this is. I’m planning a wedding for September and with a similar budget. I appreciated hearing how you did what you really thought was right for you both and didn’t try to make something huge for appearance sake. That is so right. Thanks so much for sharing! Always enjoy you guys!
Only just started the video and I'm like what sorcery is this? After watching your wedding video I'm like the beautiful wedding was $3,000? In the UK, where I live, the average wedding is reportedly £17,000!!!
Oh it’s the same here, people say the average wedding is like $30,000. But I have no idea how they came up with that number, Ive always suspected their stats are from wedding planners, which of course their numbers will range a little higher than the diy weddings I’ve always been more familiar with
@@LetsWatchTheSunset From helping out with friends' weddings, I've found that here (in the UK at least), the minute you mention it's a wedding the price shoots up. It's much less for, say, a family gathering.
The average in America is still over $10,000, mine is going to be as cheap (relatively) as possible, but because I live in an expensive area, I’m betting it’ll still be over $10,000
When acquiring anything, you will either spend money or you will spend time or someone else (family and friends) will spend money or time on your behalf.
Wow!! Sara's so creative!!❤😆 This video really inspired me to be artsy!😁 I love how this is turning into more of a "Jordan and Sara Taylor" channel, rather than just Jordan. Love you guys!❤❤❤
I was super proud for spending under $8,000 total for my wedding, and we had plenty of connections that helped us out... But this is insane! And awesome! As I'm sure you've figured out, while the wedding is an awesome day, it's by far not the best thing about marriage and it's so not worth going into debt. Y'all nailed it.
David Tierney if he’s a photographer (professional) I’m sure he may have other people who work for or help him? So maybe they took some of the shots that he was actually in?? :)
My brother would tell me exactly what to do and when to do it when I helped at weddings. I'm sure there was a cousin or someone that took his place for that moment.
I really enjoyed this and I think sharing how you did it will be helpful for lots of couples! My husband and I got married in the middle of the afternoon, between Christmas and new years in our home church. Our decorations were greenery and white lights - basically we just took down the Christmas decorations we didn't want. We also had a few hors d'oeuvres instead of a meal - which saved a bunch, and I got a dress at David's Bridal for only $99
My brother and sister-in-law got married in their small home church the week before Christmas. They just asked the church that year if they would use all white poinsettias instead of a mix of colors. The bride's family are lifelong members and my brother was the music director, so they were able to request with no problem. The family may very well have been in charge of decorating the church for Christmas anyway. The children's choir from the church did some music and both the bride and groom had friends who provided music (my brother was a music major in college). The reception was in the small fellowship hall with white Christmas lights and I think food from church or family members. (also, no big meal but still enough to not be hungry) My brother had worked for a company that did weddings, so they gifted him a groom's cake and my sister-in-law bought her cake from them. My brother did the sound - I think just a CD player (late 90s so i don't think there were computer play lists). That's the kind of wedding I want, I just don't know if there will be people around to pull one off. Right now I go to a huge church so it is more difficult to create an intimate atmosphere without more decoration. The biggest issue right now though is lack of a groom!
The fact that you made so much of your wedding elements yourself, especially your dress, is inspiring! I’ve always wanted to hear your wedding story details, so thanks for sharing!
I love you guys. Your videos are so encouraging and helpful. So happy that you share your lives with us. Also, go Sara!!! Everything looked beautiful on your wedding day.❤️
Hooray for budget weddings!!! My husband and I had a potluck reception, my sister made the cake, and my mom sewed my dress (which cost $200 in materials). It was a perfect day and everyone still talks about what a great time they! 🎉💜
What I would really like to know is how being responsible for preparation influenced the way you felt on the day. Especially Sara, seeing how she seems to have done 99% of everything lol Were you not too tired to enjoy the day, gurl?? I don't even mean being pampered, just normal amount of human resources... How about you family - I'm guessing your Dad did a photoshoot rather than stayed on duty all night, but did you get any photos of the party? Usually DJing is also a job for the whole time of dancing, did Josh not dance at all or did you take a more relaxed approach and used, like, playlists and stuff? I guess I might be thinking more in terms of how these things are done as a profession, certainly it has to be more relaxed this home-made way. But I'm still curious. Ah, also, you didn't mention Jordan's suit, I'm guessing he already had one? It seems such an amazing way to organise things. Completely personal and unique, and tbh it seems like it could in many ways be less stressful, even though the workload is incomparably bigger. If I ever marry, God willing, I would like it to be like that. But as you said, it's not gonna work out quite as beautifully for everyone.
Nah because better to have some idea of how a wedding can be planned so it's not all new if you need to plan your own or are helping someone else with their wedding. Plus seeing how others plan could help with planning a big party/reunion etc.
Looks wonderful! It’s tough right now with COVID. I’m engaged and because of military we had to move the location, trying to be thrifty and some of these tips are really good! Bulk and bundling is a great way to save.
Wow Sara has superpowers! That sounds super stressful and I'm happy the wedding did turn out great for you! The photos are stunning and you as a married couple are, too! Where i live you have to start planning at least a year before because all the venues are booked (and i have a huge family)
spending more money on the big day doesnt mean much but being able to have something that truly resembles you two as a unit is remarkable. i love the venue and how everything was nature-like, so simple yet beautiful.
I think this earliest I’ve ever been....wow, what an adorable wedding! You guys are so cute. I want to meet you and Sara in real life someday. I think me and Sara would get along really well!
This was awesome. I'm impressed by how much you did, Sara! I would freak out too about the cake. Guess I should refine those sewing skills I started learning when I was 10 years old.😅 My mom also made her own wedding dress.
Yay! So glad you guys did this video after the livestream. My engagement was 10 months and it flew by! My dress got ordered in November and it didn't arrive until March. The lady in the shop said I had so little time (10 months) that there were some dresses in the shop I couldn't even look at/choose from as they wouldn't arrive til after my wedding!! But there's no waaaaay I could have made my dress. I was oraganising a two cultures wedding with half of the wedding coming from a different country and bridesmaids and groomsmen in all kinds of countries and cities so it was stressful, so glad I didn't have to do it in 12 weeks! I crammed so much in. I would say the guestlist took us 12 weeks alone hahaha. But wow, Sara is the woman who keeps on surprising with her talents. Made her own dress AND her own cake!? You go girl.
This video was really encouraging to me!! Im trying to plan a wedding and its nice to hear from someone who did a lot themselves, because we're trying to do that too.
That was such a great video, and a lovely treat for a Saturday! I thought you would have made this two years ago, to be honest hahaha! But great job putting your wedding together in such a short time and so economically. And beautiful photographs, too!
This so reminds me of our wedding in so many ways! I made my dress, did my own hair and makeup, we got an amazing deal on our venue, put together decor as well as had a friend who loaned us a bunch of decor. It was great!
Wow amazing. My wife and had a budget of 3,000 and we were engaged for 8 weeks. We had everything we wanted and it was perfect. So cool to see that other people have done it too! Blessings!
We had a 4 month engagement - it was the perfect amount of time! We spent about $5000 tops. We got married in my home church - free. Set up a tent in my mom’s cousins yard for the reception. Tent and tables and chairs were about $500. My dress was about $300. Flowers maybe $400. We bought fabric for the bridesmaids to make their dresses. Photographer was a friend and did it for free but we did pay for him to rent a specific lens. Friend made our cake for free. Music was free. Fake flowers to decorate the church. Friends did music. Reception was organized potluck style of friends and relatives. It was simple and so wonderful and not stressful. It’s some of my happiest memories of just being together and celebrating our marriage.
Thank you for breaking down the time line, cost of each thing, and exactly how you did it. This is the best wedding on a budget video I've seen... and I've been binge watching.
Yes! I’ve always wanted to do almost everything for my own wedding and people always tell me it’s not possible, but this is proof that an inexpensive DIY wedding IS possible!
Both my older brother and sister had 3-4 month engagements and both of their weddings were perfect. I completely agree, you only have to be engaged long enough to put together a wedding, whatever that looks like for you!
I feel you guys! My husband and I had a 14 week engagement on a budget of $5000. Slightly longer time but I feel you guys on minimizing price by doing things yourself, or reusing previous things in my case (i.e. I wore my mom's wedding dress and used some of the stuff my sister had from her wedding which she'd had not long before). And people from church volunteered to do things like the food and cake for free as a gift excepting cost of materials, and we ended up using CD's for all our music, so a lot of it worked out really well for minimizing costs. Honestly the most money was spent on photography of anything. 🙌 Overall that's awesome! Great work Jordan and Sara! Sara, your dress was beeee-youuuuuuuu-teeful!! Love it!!
Me after watching this video "Wow that's awesome I could totally put together my wedding myself, I should start working on that! Oh, wait... I don't even have a boyfriend." LOL
Well done, guys. My wife and I married 5 1/2 months after meeting each other online, 2 months after meeting in person. My wife's dress cost 30 dollars. A wedding is one day; marriage is a lifetime.
Smart, Humble and Creative young people. It's so refreshing to see. I'm Wishing you all the best. You'll have a wonderful future together. I see you compliment each other well. God Bless! ❤️
This is so encouraging. My boyfriend and I (he is an enneagram 2 and I am a 4, same as you two btw!) are pretty much ready to get married as soon as he nails down a Grown Up job, and I think it will be a short engagement and cheap wedding. Honestly we’d probably be satisfied with not even having a full blown ceremony, but I would rather save money for the honeymoon rather than the wedding. I’m glad that this isn’t so out of the ordinary.
I had a longer engagement because I had a year of college left, but my wedding was also about $3,000. DIY-ing was also my main strategy, as well as cheap venues. Ceremony - outdoors at a Bible camp that had a pretty setup with benches and lots of trees nearby. There was a chapel in case it rained. $75, I think? Really cheap. Reception venue - a gym that's frequently rented for parties and receptions. Not gorgeous, but it came with tables/chairs and was easy to decorate. I think about $275. My dress - purchased on eBay for $50, altered it myself with new material, adding up to less than $100. Invitations - designed myself, with postage and printing less than $150. Photography - a friend did it for a discounted (and just-starting-out) price. $400, and they were wonderful. Flowers - bought bulk blue hydrangeas. Arranged bouquets myself with some baby's breath. Every table had a stem or two in a glass jar (my mother-in-law had a stash of old canning jars in her basement). I also cut some fern fronds from my MIL's backyard. $300, I think for the hydrangeas. Centerpieces were branches I arranged, hot glued together, and spray painted gold. We had a brunch wedding, which tends to be less expensive. I catered through a grocery store chain, which was cheap but still tasty. I don't remember the cost for sure--I think around $1000. Friends of mine made cinnamon rolls for everyone's dessert as a gift. I made my own cake for my husband/me/the bridal party. It wasn't a traditional wedding cake, but it was delicious. We didn't do dancing, but a friend with audio equipment hooked up a microphone for speeches/played background music. Audio was free. I did my hair, and my sister-in-law did my makeup. Other decorations were borrowed or bought cheaply. We did buy disposable plates and things for food, but those were the major expenses. My wedding was fairly casual, but we loved it, and our family and friends were happy. A DIY wedding may not be super "fancy," but it can still be beautiful. You just need time, some crafting/planning skills, and some help.
I totally understand Sara! I did the same for my wedding. Only we had $1000 and also about 12 weeks. Making your own decor and such makes such a difference!!! I had a gorgeous wedding,never forget it :)
I love this! I’m thinking about planning my own wedding. Could you make a list of everything you had to think about in the process, like pick a venue, make invitations, etc? Also, how many people came to your wedding? Did you keep it to close friends only?
