Lets see if I can be of any help for everyone!
-Wedding Pavilion - 2343.00
-Floral - 3911.21 (This was double but we had to cut it down as much as possible, which I still find to be a ridiculous amount, but we were an in-park wedding therefore we had to use Disney floral)
-1 Limousine - 330
-2 motorcoaches for eight hours: 697 ea.
-Wedding cake + castle topper (150 ppl): 1943.00
-Bar (4 hours--package, premium and water and soda for some) - 4000.00
-pre reception items (passed) 2498.62
-Reception Venue rental - 3195.00
-2 chefs vendor, hot, meal: 40.00 (They ended up getting regular guest meals, though)
-Dinner: 6818.13
-DJ package: 1875.00 (This was supposed to be at 4400, but we were able to talk our way out of it)
-Magic Kingdom photo shoot: 800
Does not include:
-photography: 5000
We got married at the wedding pavilion at 7:30 p.m., had our pre-reception at the courtyard between the GMR and the sorcerer hat icon and our reception inside the Magic of Animation Building in Disney's MGM studios! It was an amazing wedding and other than going the complete opposite way and having an intimate, we wouldn't have done it any other way.
Our floral was much much higher like I mentioned, close to 6K when we first got it, but we worked with Disney a lot and cut corners on a lot of things to make it go down. For what we got from them (considering a lot of things were wrong) the price we paid was still way too much. I would suggest, if you can, to go with an outside florist. One thing though about the floral was that it was breathtaking....they really know how to do a good job!
We cut down on the bar and ending it an hour before the end of the ceremony and put a soda and water package out BOC. That cut a lot of costs considering how many people were left at 1:30 a.m. I would also suggest to look at your guest list and determine how big of drinkers your guests are. Overall, I think we should have gone with BOC because we paid close to 27 per person at the wedding (which a lot of them didn't touch a drink the entire night)
Our pre-reception/reception venue rental was a big chunk of our budget, but it was well worth it in the end--it included the character sketch class for all of our guests throughout the evening, which was amazing!
The DJ was originally going to cost us close to 4400 dollars because it was going to be outside in the park, but we moved some things around and ended up having the DJ inside which dropped the cost a little, but we still had to do some negotiating. They finally ended up letting us bring in a contracted outside (disney approved) DJ for 1875. We had DJ
Scooter which was the best vendor, I think, we had! He was amazing
The Magic Kingdom photo shoot was 800 but was a waste for us as we didn't have any photos turn out good enough to purchase
That was our fault though, we were just so tired and were not looking our best, to say the least!!
lol!
The only other thing that wasn't included in Disney's budget was our photographer. She was one of the biggest chunks of our budget! We have some amazing photographs and I personally couldn't imagine have gone with our original photographer, she was just superb, so I'm glad we spent the extra cash for her!
I hope that helps someone! We cut our budget down tremendously, but it took some work! I think we cut it down to the lowest possible amount for what we were having and where we were having it! Disney is very willing to help you cut down so take advantage of your planner