what is the average cost for a wedding??

im engaged and i dont have alot of money so i was wondering what is the average cost for a wedding

Your Life

about the same as RL, it all depends on what you want and how fast you want it.

rl, the one i am paying for next week, 10k+
sl, as much as you want to spend or nothing.

http://iheartsl.com/2009/07/31/wedding-expo-2009-freebies/

Might want to score some freebies from this wedding expo .. if it is still going on. As I'd probably suggest to someone in rl, spend as much as you can afford. You could probably spend absolutely zero on a pretty nice wedding in SL to hundreds of real life dollars. I've been to quite a few weddings in SL from the modest to the outrageously expensive. I have noticed though that the amount spent on their SL wedding seemed to be inversely proportional to the length of the relationship Good luck and congrats!

If you belong to the Pure group...the cost for the venue is nothing..we have a small chapel on our homestead island that is for residents of Faith Homes and group members of Pure to use free of charge. There is a large Italian courtyard for dancing & the reception afterwards also.

You would have to find your own minister, cake,clothing (although I also have a few wedding dresses !!)

Obviously being a homestead, it is limited to a maximum number of 20 people at the wedding.

If youd like to have a viewing let me know.

Fai

it goes from under 100 Linden, to over way over 100 Linden, You two descide on the cost, and luxory needed. If you own land already (rented or bought), you could if having enough prims, do it there, saves you money for renting a wedding location, etc etc..
Or do it on friends location.

It all up to your own needs. Small, big, huge, massive..

Anyway, don't marry for fun sakes, that's a no no, cos it will cost you more then just go out for a dance.
(i've seen many sl marriages, which are divorced within 2 a 4 weeks after the ceremony, because the fun was gone.. see SL marriage as a real commitment in the world. just like in RL.. There has to be REAL love inside the two of you, towards eachother.. I'm sick of those fake marriages that has roleplaying all over, "it's just SL, i have someone else in RL" type of things)

To be slightly more serious although my previous was true.

When my partner and I decided to become partners in sl, she showed me what her idea of what she wanted for her ceremony. So i created the setting and the animations for the event. Due to the private nature of the ceremony, we only had one other person present. She was the only common and close friend that we both had.

So our "wedding" cost us nothing except for the time i spent in building and creating the animations. But our ceremony is not only used for partnering, but also for reaffirmations at the end of high stress periods in one or the others lives.

All of what you are asking can be done with no L$ but if you choose you can spend 1000's. It is your choice.

In our case, all we paid for was the land rental for about three weeks. The build was something we created ourselves (hence those extra rented weeks, while we put it together), and the clothes were things we already had. Mind you, we did have a bit of an unconventional themed wedding: in a trashy trailer park.

I think everyone that attended had fun dressing in theme, and we scripted the event to be a proper shotgun wedding, with a couple of good friends playing extra roles. It was probably the most fun day I've ever had in SL

Sakura weren't you just job hunting last month? Your playing Second Life on fast forward. By November we will see your 'jaded; forum post about SL being passe.

Anyway, a wedding rental is about $7,000L - that is with the Officiant, space rental, clothes, flowers, etc.

You can go off-beat and just do it on a beach with a few friends. Check out Hawaii Island.

One thing I need to add (and which is already and will be further evident by responses you'll get in this thread) is that there is no set formula for a wedding in SL. There are no standard vows.

You can opt for the full white wedding chapel with everyone in formal dress, someone 'official' to officiate, proper 'walking up the aisle' poseballs, a DJ to play at the afterparty etc. Or you can just gather some friends together at any location you choose, such as a beach, as Lias mentions above (you may need to get the landowner's permission first) and do it yourself; write your own vows, enlist the help of a friend if you really need someone to officiate at the occasion, and then drag everyone back to your place for a knees-up with a good dance music station streaming onto your land.

To OP,

I am a wedding planner and I sent you a PM. I would love to meet with you.

Thank you

elope cause its to hard to get all your friends there btw time zones and SL playing up. So you can same money and just pay the fee to have the person put on your profile

I have done quite a few weddings, yes the time zone thing is a challenge. But it really is not that hard.

Yes it is. I have attended a few weddings where the bride was distraught because so few of her friends had turned up, but then, a convenient time for the Americas is not so convenient for Europeans . . .

Pep ( . . . and if you have Eastern friends as well . . .)

PS Joe Namath said you should always get married early in the morning, so if it didn't work out you hadn't wasted a whole day and could play golf in the afternoon.

Again, it is not that hard and a lot of my customers are Europeans not Americans. Perhaps the weddings you attended where the bride was very distraught did not take into consideration the time they selected and whether or not their friends/family can attend. They chose a date and expected everyone to show up.

One of the very first things I ask a customer is what time zone(s) the majority of their guest and family are in. Then we come up with different times and dates. The bride will then basically poll her friends/family to see what time the majority can attend. That date and time is selected for their ceremony. That is one of the tasks of a wedding planner out situations that the bridal couple may not thought of.

The most challenging one I had was the bridal couple had friends in Australia that was going to be in the wedding party. Everyone showed up because we crafted a time that was neutral for everyone. It also requires a bit a sacrifice on both sides.

One needs to keep in mind, not only you are paying for location of a wedding ceremony, you are also paying for the planner's service to make sure things run as smoothly as possible. So the bridal couple can enjoy themselves while waiting for their date to come.

That's hardly rocket science is it? These weddings had gone through that process of time negotiation. Everyone said "that's fine" but it wasn't.

Pep (I bet you don't charge on a pro rata basis: a fee for each invited guest that turns up. )

That's why I said it is not hard.

You are welcome to come to my sim and get a price card. We have 3 areas on our sim that you can obtain one.

To address your pricing suggestion, perhaps I should. In my experience, most of the bridal party's guests/ceremony participants DO SHOW UP.

But unlike a lot of wedding vendors, we do not bleed our customers dry. Our pricing model targets customers that are on "modest" budget but the service Will and I deliver makes them feel as if they did pay 15,000 - 50,000L for their wedding.

There are lots of things that are not hard to do badly, but difficult to do successfully. I make my money out of the difference as a project manager. It's easy to get people to say they'll turn up, quite another to get them to turn up.

What incentive is there to turn up to a *wedding* when you know the odds are ten to one on that the pair will have split up within a month? I prefer to avoid weddings so that there is half a chance of my remaining friends with both parties (should I wish to) after the break up.

Pep (waits for the nine percent to profess their undying love - and the vast majority to remain silent. )

Whatever Pep. I am not going to debate the "odds" of someone staying together after the wedding. That is not my job. My job is for those who want the "wedding" experience to make it as rewarding and memorable as possible. Simple.

Oh btw, we have done quite a few of renewal ceremonies too.

i got married in a cornfield - i asked him if he did and he said i do and that was that more or less
price - $0
memories of being young and in love (sighs) - priceless

(merrily skips down memory lane)

How about "divorce" parties?

Pep (Now *those* are *REAL* celebrations!)

I have never been married. Blue jeans seem okay to me.

A friend of mine held his DIY SL wedding on the roof of his house and set up his own decorated bower there for the ceremony. The happy couple took the vows they'd written themselves, there were seats for the guests, doves and flowers, a best man who cracked some rather good jokes, music and laughter and virtual champagne. Afterwards we all TP'd to the pub in Dublin for a party.

All in all it was a very happy, fun event that everyone enjoyed. I don't think it cost them very much at all.

The short answer is there are no rules; you can make it as costly and showy, or as fun and inexpensive as you want to - just like RL really.

I hope your day is wonderful.

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Aes

It was a great day.