Downtown Boston Restaurant Weddings for 20K and Less: a How-To Guide
“You double-booked us with an all-day mariachi festival?” It was not the first time that we had been foiled in our efforts to outsmart the wedding industry. Our first venue, a bed and breakfast, surprised us with a $10,000 surcharge. The second, a historic mansion, burned down. Another venue turned out, upon our visit, to be a totally different location with a similar name. We found ourselves here out of desire to surround ourselves with loved ones on our wedding day, but without the $50K+ price tag accompanying the average Massachusetts wedding. Matt and I were both transplants to the New England area. Neither of us had any family nearby. We couldn’t imagine asking our family to travel from abroad to a casual park wedding that was vulnerable to rainstorms. It needed to be somewhere easily accessible to out-of-towners – that is, commutable to downtown Boston – and indoors. As recent graduates, we were highly motivated to pay down our debts and prepare for our future. Financing an...