• 3 months ago
Credit: SWNS / Misaki Hajimirsadeghi

A couple splashed out $80k on a lavish destination wedding in Mexico - spending $28k on food and drink, $4k on flowers and almost $3k on fireworks.

Misaki Hajimirsadeghi, 29, and her husband, Amir, 29, got married on April 2, 2024 - 11years after they met during their first week at college in 2013.
Transcript
00:00We just got married a couple months ago, and a lot of you guys asked me to do a wedding cost breakdown of our Nobu wedding.
00:06I feel like at the beginning of the wedding planning process, I just had no idea how much things cost.
00:10And people were asking me, like, what's your budget for a wedding photographer?
00:13And I'm like, how can I know what the budget is for a wedding photographer if I don't know how much, like, flowers cost?
00:19Just wanted to share the information and create some transparency in case you are planning your own wedding and find this info useful.
00:25Last time I did this, there were so many people who were so upset about how much someone spent on their own wedding.
00:31We had 75 people, it was a Tuesday wedding, and these are 2023 prices.
00:36Starting off with the venue fee, the venue fee was actually waived because at Nobu, if you have over 80% of the guests staying at the hotel, it's actually waived.
00:44This was very clutch because some of the LA venues that we were touring was, like, literally $40,000 just in venue fee to have your wedding there.
00:52As with most weddings, a lot of our costs went to food and drinks.
00:55We spent $14,000 on food, again, for 75 people, and the food included appetizers during cocktail hour and a three-course meal during reception.
01:04We, of course, had an open bar as well. That was a non-negotiable.
01:08We had it during cocktail hour and reception for a total of six hours, and this was $15,000.
01:13Here are some of the wedding vendors that I had.
01:15You guys already know how much I love my wedding planner, my content creator, photographer, and DJ.
01:21I'd say these are all very reasonable prices and definitely best bang for your buck.
01:26If you're planning a wedding, you know how crazy some of these vendor prices can get, but I am of the opinion that you really don't need to be spending tens of thousands of dollars to get good quality.
01:36The total I spent on florals was $4,600.
01:39I could do a whole separate video on this to kind of show you guys, like, all the florals that I had and then how much I spent on each.
01:45We had a traditional person ceremony, so we kind of rented out the table, the bench, the big mirror, and the two large candles.
01:52All the candles in the front.
01:54Rentals for those were $275.
01:56I did pay for the hair and makeup for the bridesmaids, moms, and grandmas, but I just put what I paid for my own.
02:02Hair and makeup for the wedding day was $310.
02:05The dance floor was $3,300, and the fairy lights were $2,800, which honestly, like, shocked me.
02:11Like, I had to have the fairy lights for this venue, otherwise it'd be pitch black, and it'd be weird not to have a dance floor.
02:17Could someone tell me why a dance floor costs over $3,000?
02:21The dining tables were $1,500, and the chairs were $1,700.
02:25I actually used the same chairs during the ceremony and just had them move it to the reception area.
02:30The relocation fee was like $250.
02:32And then the charger plates, the napkins, the runner, the candles were $2170 total.
02:38Finally, we have the fireworks, which was the best part of our wedding.
02:42These were $2,800 a minute, and the champagne towers were $300, which I know is crazy.
02:48We really wanted to do something unique and entertaining for our guests, since they traveled all the way to Kabul and spent three days at Nobu.
02:55And we were under budget, so we were like, ugh, screw it.
02:58We had an audio guestbook, which was $400 to rent, and we spent $700 on the welcome boxes.
03:04If you guys want to know what I thought was worth it versus not, or how we came up with the budget, or anything else, please let me know.
03:11And I hope you found this useful.

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