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Let’s get one very important thing out of the way. My biggest — and probably most important — piece of advice is this: do not decide to host a home wedding because you think it will be less expensive than using a traditional wedding venue. You should decide to host an at-home wedding because the location is beautiful and meaningful, and you can’t imagine your wedding anywhere else. Seriously.
Cost of Backyard Wedding
A sophisticated backyard wedding is likely the most expensive kind of wedding you can have, easily costing $1500/guest or more in a major metropolitan area. Why? In order to make your guests safe and comfortable, you will have to rent or purchase everything that a pre-existing event space already has. This includes tents, flooring, bathrooms, generators, and much more. And if the weather turns out to be less than ideal, you will be adding marquee tents, tent walls, heaters, or fans, to name just a few items, to that list, making the costs pile up significantly.
You can certainly have an economical home wedding. But you can also have an economical wedding at a hotel, restaurant, local park, or small art gallery, while avoiding the extensive amount of planning that is required for a backyard wedding. And that extensive planning and forethought is what I am here to talk about. This ebook and blog are not going to talk about cutting wedding costs. It’s going to explain in great detail how to turn a backyard into a space offering amenities comparable to premium wedding venues while retaining the sentimental value that home weddings offer.
Check out my foundational blog posts about: backyard wedding tents, wedding tent flooring, professional lighting for your backyard wedding, restrooms for your backyard wedding, utilities for your backyard wedding, and making a smart transportation plan for your backyard wedding.
