Wedding Costs

So let's see... What elements of my wedding do I have planned so we can add up the cost so far?

Band:

My uncle's band, The Folly Dogs, are going to play for our reception, and are only going to charge us around $200-250, which is awesome.

Wedding bands:

When Eric bought my engagement ring, it came with the wedding band, and Eric's going to use the titanium band I got him as a promise ring for one of our anniversaries.

Photography:

Our friend Sherri is going to be doing photography and I was hoping to pay her around $200-300 for her services since I think we'll be the first wedding she's ever photographed. ;)

Venue:

We're getting married at Eric's parents' house, so this is virtually free! Whee!!!! :)

Officiant:

We're having our friend Jon officiate the wedding, so I guess the only costs associated with this would be getting him certification as a notary public, which I'm sure is around $100 or so and then there's the license, which is like $70.

Catering:

A friend of Eric's parents is supposedly going to do our catering for us, and he's a top chef at a nice resturant Downtown, so that's exciting. Hopefully, he won't charge us too much, so I'm hoping less than $1000 for this, maybe even less than $500, if he only charges us for the food supplies. ;)

Flowers:

I'm going to be doing my own floral arrangements, since the centerpieces on the tables are just going to be a couple of blooms floating in shallow bowls with petals around the bowl, maybe sitting on mirrors, which we'll probably just rent, or I might buy them considering I can use them to do cool decorating stuff in our own place. :)

Decor:

I'm going to be doing a lot of my own decor, so me and my bridesmaids and any other willing hands will be doing this ourselves, but just cute little things like origami animals for place-cards and tissue paper balls to hang from trees.

My Dress:

So....This is where I go a little extreme. My dress is a couture, one of a kind, piece of mastery. It's seriously the only one EVER and it's terribly TERRIBLY expensive. like, almost $3000 expensive. And that's with $1200 off, because I traded in TWO dresses I already HAD. :-p But it's so beautiful. You can see it in a previous entry. It's GORGEOUS. Ugh. And the dress the model on the runway is wearing? That's the EXACT dress I'm getting. As in, the one she wore is now MINEEEEE. Just not paid off yet. ;) But it's going to look AMAZING, I promise, and we're making it so I can wear it again.

Alcohol:

As for this one, Eric's parents, his mom particularly, know a LOT of people, so I'm hoping they can help us get discounts on this. :)

Planner:

I only really need a planner to help with logistics and especially day of stuff so I don't stress, and our friend Jake has offered to get us in contact with a friend of his who is trying to get her event planning degree, and if she's willing to work for a low fee, I'd love giving her the experience to work on our wedding, though it's going to be a very low-key event, even if I am a damn fashion-wannabe spending an ASS-TON on my dress. :)

Cake:

I like the idea of having a dessert buffet instead of a cake, so that there's variety, so we might just cut into a cupcake or something. ;) Hopefully, this can be including in the catering costs. :-p

Rentals:

This will probably be the biggest thing, next to my dress, that we spend money on. We just need chairs and tables and linens and plateware and silverware and glasses and such for guests. We also may need to rent catering supplies for Mitch, Eric's parents chef friend, so we'll have to see about how much this will cost us.

Other than that, the only other this is stationery, which I'm still up in the air about at the moment. I have invites made, but it's for a different wedding date, one for this year, and I'm pretty sure that's not gonna be happening, so that was a waste of money.... Sigh. Oh well, right?