How much does a chassidisha wedding cost?

amother

↑ Azure

Tue, Nov 12 2024, 12:22 pm

I don't get why sheitels are so much. They are shorter and not lace tops I'm assuming. So what is the big cost for sheitels in the chassidish community, assuming you don't have blond or red hair?

amother

↑ Aquamarine

Tue, Nov 12 2024, 1:19 pm

Whoever said $3500 each side in Monroe...can litvish people get married there? Lol. That sounds great.

I still don't understand why weddings are costing 100k plus, can someone explain? I had 200 ppl almost 10 years ago for 25k in the Atrium and that included band, photographer, etc. fine so now that might be 35k but that still is MUCH less than 100k!!

amother

Oak

Tue, Nov 12 2024, 1:21 pm

amother Aquamarine wrote:

The 100k includes so much more than just the wedding.

amother

↑ Anemone

Tue, Nov 12 2024, 1:35 pm

amother Thistle wrote:

Wow that sounds too much. I'm scared now 😯
Did you have loads of people at the dinner?
55k for a takana wedding?! Insane.

The number is in $, it was about 42 in £.
It wasn't a big wedding at all. I think 120 couples.
The halls went up significantly since the last wedding my family had, same takana hall.
It includes some flights for my siblings that live in Israel. As well as engagement (small, in my house), gifts, my wardrobe, setting up my home (linens, dishes, appliances etc) and gowns for 2 sisters. Hair and makeup for married siblings as well. Shadchan, kallah classes, wigs. Think that's it!

ETA includes rent for the first few weeks till we moved to Israel as well as our flights to Israel.
My gown was from a gemach btw, only paid cleaning fee.

amother

↑ Chocolate

Wed, Nov 13 2024, 12:48 am

amother Thistle wrote:

Sensible! How many people did you have at the dinner? It sounds very very cheap. We can't make a bar mitzvah for under 6-10k in England. Well technically people do but they cater it themselves then.

125 couples is included in the price.

amother

Camellia

Wed, Nov 13 2024, 1:05 am

amother Bluebell wrote:

Hall price starts at 30k

what is included in the “hall price”?
does that include the food?
for how many people?
how many adults?
how many kids?

simcha12plus

Wed, Nov 13 2024, 1:10 am

GOODMOM wrote:

Someone mentioned 2k for makeup and hair. I married off a few kids bh and never spent that much on the above. Hair for kallah was $100. The girls were $50 each. Makeup was like $90 per person.

I’m not chassidish and I am making a wedding in Brooklyn next month.
It’s at least $350 for the kallah for hair and $350 for makeup. I hired for my girls some newer people who do it for around $50.
And those are not the highest numbers are at all.
if you have six girls and a daughter in law and yourself and your mother and shvigger, you are definitely looking at 2K for hair and makeup and probably even more.

amother

↑ Petunia

Wed, Nov 13 2024, 1:57 am

A friend is making a wedding and she told me for her last wedding, it cost $6000 to do hair and makeup for the bride, mothers, and sisters. Lakewood. I almost fell over.