{"id":13150,"date":"2020-03-19T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/?p=13150"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:26:15","slug":"average-wedding-cost-by-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wedding_lists\/average-wedding-cost-by-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Wedding Cost by Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class='et-dropcap'>W<\/span>e recently reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/cleveland-wedding-dj\/2019-average-wedding-cost\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the average cost of a wedding in 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, based on <\/span><a href=\"about:blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Knot\u2019s 2019 Real Weddings Study<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of more than 27,000 couples throughout the country,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was $33,900. Now, we break that down by individual expense.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Unsurprisingly, the Top 3 most expensive wedding expenses are venue ($10,500), engagement rings ($5,900) and honeymoon ($5,000). In 2018, these categories also made the Top 3, coming in at venue ($9,000), engagement rings ($5,000) and honeymoon ($4,500).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Other average expenses include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Venue &#8211; $10,500<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Engagement Rings &#8211; $5,900<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Honeymoon &#8211; $5,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Band &#8211; $3,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Photography &#8211; $3,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">DJ\/lighting &#8211; $2,700<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Videography &#8211; $2,400<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Alcohol\/Liquor &#8211; $2,300<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Wedding Rings &#8211; $2,200<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Flowers &#8211; $2,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Rehearsal Dinner &#8211; $1,900<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Wedding Dress &#8211; $1,600<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Wedding Planner &#8211; $1,500<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Guest Entertainment &#8211; $1,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Transportation &#8211; $800<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Invitations\/Stationery &#8211; $560t<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Cake\/Desserts &#8211; $500<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Wedding Musicians, i.e. Soloist, Ensembles &#8211; $450<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Favors and Gifts &#8211; $400<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Groom&#8217;s Attire &#8211; $300<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Jewelry &#8211; $200<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Officiant &#8211; $250<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Groomsmen Attire (Each) &#8211; $180<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Bridesmaid Dress (Each) &#8211; $140<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Hairstylist (Bride) &#8211; $110<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Makeup Artist (Bride) &#8211; $100<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Makeup Artists Wedding Party (Each) &#8211; $70<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Hairstylist Wedding Party (Each) &#8211; $70<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: karla;\">Catering (Per Head) &#8211; $70<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>e recently reported the average cost of a wedding in 2019, based on The Knot\u2019s 2019 Real Weddings Study of more than 27,000 couples throughout the country,\u00a0was $33,900. Now, we break that down by individual expense. Unsurprisingly, the Top 3 most expensive wedding expenses are venue ($10,500), engagement rings ($5,900) and honeymoon ($5,000). In 2018, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[298,299,300,301,136,297],"class_list":["post-13150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding_lists","tag-average-cost-wedding-dj","tag-average-cost-wedding-photography","tag-average-cost-wedding-venue","tag-average-cost-wedding-video","tag-average-wedding-cost","tag-average-wedding-cost-by-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17925,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions\/17925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}