How much can I expect to pay at wedding for....?

I am doing a budget for my wedding next year. How much can I generally expect to pay for a live wedding band, a photographer and flowers for the reception? My wedding is in Palm Beach.





Thanks.

How much can I expect to pay at wedding for....?
that all depends on how much and how big you want everything. you can pay anywhere from 500 to 5000 for flowers.
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Reply:on average:


live band may cost from $3,000 - $5,000


photographer - $2,500 - $ 5,000


Flowers - it really realy depends if you plan on using them as center peices and what kind of flowers you'd like.





These are prices on average in my area (northern NJ - but im sure the prices aren't much different in Palm Beach) - you may- of course - find cheaper and possibly will have to sacrifice the quality





good luck
Reply:Go on www.theknot.com, the have regional vendors listed, with a price range. Some of the vendors will give prices if you go to their websites. Use their budgeting tool, too- that and their checklist were invaluable to me when I was doing my planning.





Good luck.
Reply:I'm in Southern California so I'm not sure about the difference in pricing.





I'm not sure about the live band but we're paying about $1000 for the DJ for 4 hours which I'm pretty sure includes the ceremony music. I'm meeting with them tomorrow.





The flowers are $1200 right now which includes an arch top arrangement (instead of floor to floor arch), 2 arrangements for the pillars on the sides of the arch, stairway for me to walk down with garland, 5 centerpieces (10 people per table = 50 guests), one large arrangement for our "sweetheart table", my bouquet, my matron of honor's bouquet, my toss bouquet, my Mom's corsage, groom's %26amp; best man's boutonniers, and also fresh flowers for my cake and scattered on the table. I am using tropicals though which will include A LOT of bombay orchids so it will depend on how expensive you'll want your flowers to be.





As far as the photographer, we're hoping to use a friend but if we have to use someone else, I'm looking at a bare minimum of $2,000 which doesn't include much. I'll probably budget around $3,000 if we have to do that.





Hope that helps!
Reply:Well if yourre having it on the beach there shouldnt be a rental cost for that lol unless you want tents and stuff like that. A GOOD photographer can run about $4000+ but the one Im using is only going to be about $1500. Im not sure on the band...but flowers can be pretty pricey. If you want individual centerpieces it can be aroung $40 a table possibly. My wedding is in July and we rented a chapel for $3500 and they decorated EVERYTHING for you..its all included in the cost. Our wedding will only be about $6000...which is really cheap. but it will STILL be nice. You have to find ways to miminmize your costs. Instead of a band we are hooking up my ipod for music and just playing through a playlist for the reception..