A transparent guide to understanding wedding pricing, event logistics, and how our Pink Wasabi brands support couples with clarity and care.
One of the most common questions couples ask when planning a wedding is: “How much will my wedding cost?” And while we completely understand the desire for transparency, the honest answer is that wedding pricing isn’t a one-size-fits-all number—because weddings themselves are not one-size-fits-all experiences.
At Pink Wasabi Events, we pride ourselves on being honest, fair, and deeply thoughtful about how we price our planning, design, and production services. We also want to help couples understand why wedding investments vary so dramatically, and why offering exact pricing before understanding your variables is often impossible.
Different Types of Weddings—and How They Impact Cost
Your wedding type plays a major role in your overall budget. Each style brings unique requirements and varying degrees of labor, logistics, design, and production. Here are the most common categories and how they influence cost:
1. Traditional Ballroom Weddings
These venue-driven weddings often require specific vendors, union labor, exclusive catering, load-in/out restrictions, or design limitations. Costs increase when venues mandate certain production rules or narrow installation windows—sometimes requiring double the staff to execute on time.
2. Outdoor Tent or Estate Weddings
These are some of the most expensive formats because you’re essentially building a venue from scratch. Tents, flooring, lighting, power, restrooms, weather plans, transportation, and logistics all add layers of cost and staffing.
3. Destination Weddings
Destination weddings are magical—but they involve multi-day experiences, travel logistics, cultural considerations, on-site scouting, and coordination with international partners. This naturally increases planning and production hours.
4. Micro Weddings & Intimate Celebrations
Smaller guest counts do not always equal smaller budgets. High-end design, immersive décor, specialty rentals, and premium food & beverage options still require the same planning structure and often the same vendor team. SIDE NOTE: Can we abolish the term “micro weddings”? It gives me the ick.
5. Designer-Led & Experiential Weddings
These weddings prioritize immersive décor, custom builds, floral installations, and unique guest experiences. Design-forward weddings involve more creative development, revisions, production time, and labor—making them typically higher-investment.
Why It’s Challenging for Planners & Designers to Give Exact Pricing Up Front
Wedding costs span a very wide range, and the final price is shaped by variables that are often outside our control, such as:
- Venue selection & contracted requirements
- Load-in / load-out rules (some require triple staffing due to logistics)
- Client’s desired aesthetic and level of production
- Guest count
- Weather and contingency planning
- Each client’s privacy preferences
Many of our clients—especially high-profile, celebrity, and high-net-worth families working under NDAs—request that we never disclose their final wedding cost. We honor that completely.
However, we can share starting prices and median spends to help couples understand the realities of producing an elevated event in the South Florida market.
No, There Is Not a “Wedding Tax”
Let’s address a common misconception: that wedding vendors “charge more because it’s a wedding.”
We don’t. We charge based on the requests you make and the logistics required to make those requests possible. Weddings simply involve:
- Higher stakes
- More production hours
- More vendors
- More legal requirements
- More precision and emotional responsibility
We’ve produced events for celebrities and high-net-worth families under strict NDAs—and every client is charged fairly and consistently according to the scope.
Weddings are a major investment, and we never recommend that couples spend money on things they don’t value. The only areas where we won’t compromise are:
- Quality food & beverages
- Guest comfort
- Guest safety
You also don’t need to follow trends if they don’t serve your story. We design what’s meaningful to you.
Our Wedding Planning & Design Collections
The Peach Collection – Full Wedding Planning & Design
Starting at $14,500 with a $30,000 production minimum.
This is our most popular service. The production minimum helps couples understand that 9 out of 10 weddings meet or exceed this amount when considering the essential elements of a high-quality event.
The Pink Collection – Luxury Destination Wedding Planning & Design
Starting at $20,000 with a $40,000 production minimum.
This service includes planning and execution for two additional events (often welcome parties, brunches, or cultural celebrations), creating a full wedding weekend experience. Perfect for couples gathering loved ones from around the world.
Our Sister Brand: PINK. Marketing & Activations
PINK. supports corporate and brand-forward couples with customizable backdrops, experiential installations, guest-engagement features, and elevated event storytelling.
This brand is ideal for couples seeking immersive experiences or corporate clients hosting branded events, galas, or activations.
Reintroducing Our Beloved Coordination Offering: Blush Events
For years, clients adored our coordination services—but offering them under Pink Wasabi presented challenges:
- Couples unknowingly make plans that conflict with venue rules, logistics, and industry standards. We often had to untangle complicated issues late in the process.
- Scope creep—coordination clients would ask for design help, which isn’t sustainable when that time wasn’t contracted.
- We don’t want to take credit for couples’ design work. Some Blush couples SLAYED their own designs, and we want them to shine for that.
So we created a sister brand Blush Events where coordination stands proudly on its own.
Blush Coordination
Starting at $3,500. Perfect for couples who want to plan themselves but need expert execution.
Designer-Curated Collections
To support couples who want stylish cohesion without the overwhelm, we’re introducing Blush pre-set design collections. These packages streamline the design process while maintaining a high level of polish.
Looking for a Realistic Wedding Budget Range?
We’re always happy to connect for a brief call to help you find a realistic cost range based on the variables you already know:
- Guest count
- Desired venue or location
- Design aesthetic
- Format or wedding type
With those pieces, we can provide far more clarity than a generic “average wedding cost” ever could.
Every wedding is different—and that’s what makes this work meaningful to us.
xo – Shari
