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Now that you have seen how the wedding turned out, I thought I would include some specific details about money and timing.

Budget

Reception Venue- 11,000
Food and Service- 1,900
Beverages- 1,900
Cake- 200
Amusement Rentals- 4,000
Other Rentals- 1,450
Dresses, Alterations, and Shoes- 1,000
Officiant- 100
Photographer- 2,200
Wedding Rings- 65
Popcorn- 65
Decorations (an estimate of all my DIY projects)~1,800

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I had so many compliments on the crafts during the wedding that I felt really good about having spent a year preparing for one weekend.

Tent Decorations

The infamous Martha Stewart Pom Poms

The 300 feet of flags that went around the outside of the tent

The tent all empty and set up before the reception

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We woke up at 9:30 on Sunday morning and drove in to town to pick up brunch and coffee.  I had place an order on Friday afternoon at Pricechopper for bagel, pastry, and fruit platters.  Across the street we picked up 9 boxes of Joe at Dunkin Donuts. At first, I tried to do it in the drive through, but they laughed at me.  It ended up taking half an hour to get all of the coffee!  I estimated 2 cups for every person, but we only ended up used 4 out of 9 boxes. Brunch was really relaxing.  It was sad to say good bye to everyone, but it was nice to have the chance to hang out with people without a wedding going on.

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After the cake cutting, all of the previous festivities continued, but now including sparklers,

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J’s friend made our cake and cupcakes.  I had previously posted about the desert she made for her sister’s wedding here. We traded some emails back and forth about general ideas, but the design was up to her.  We were so happy with how it turned out.  She used the font from our invitation as a template for our initials and made cake flags.  I was amazed by how it looked.

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For the carnival part of our wedding, we hired game booths, mini golf, and a chair swing ride from North American Amusement.

The chair swing ride was so much fun.  My only real regret of the wedding is that I only got to ride on it twice. J managed 5 rides!

Somehow by complete accident,we managed to get a ride in our wedding colors.

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