As wedding season 2012 has been heating up, I’ve seen more and more PF-blogger-brides (yet to see a groom) discuss their wedding budgets or various aspects of planning.  It’s caused me to reflect on our wedding from 2010, which was not at all an inexpensive undertaking.  To this day I don’t know how much money was spent on our wedding because some costs have not been disclosed to us by our parents and some small items may have slipped through the cracks of our tracking.  The total cost was in “average American wedding” territory for 120 guests at each of two receptions.  We had a ceremony and reception in Durham, NC and a second reception two weeks later in Brea, CA.
 
I’m not trying to showcase our wedding as especially frugal or DIY by any means, but some choices we made were quite cost-saving.  We didn’t choose any of these options because …