bridezilla freakout

[kellinator]

Be honest -- is there any way I can have 120 people without completely going broke or turning the wedding into a keg party?

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[elizabethf.livejournal.com]

My first wedding was about 130 guests and ran about $20K and that was about 10 years ago.

You might want to give serious thought to doing something like Jay and I did. We had a small wedding with about 35-40 and then we threw a party the following Saturday and we had about another 120 people over here at our house, I put together some finger foods, I set up the chocolate fountain (that you can get for about forty bucks) and we brought in lots of BBQ from Williamson Brothers, which everyone devoured. We got a couple of kegs and I made some wicked rum punch and people had an absolute blast. We didn't have to worry about people getting uncomfortable in their wedding clothes (or me in a dress), we had live music and it was comfy and laid back...it was so much more fun than a traditional wedding reception would have been and the wedding AND the party together only cost about $5000. The best thing about it, was I was able to actually enjoy myself. It's very hard to enjoy yourself on the day of your wedding because you're too busy stressing out about how everything is going.