Hi everyone!
I'm living in DC and planning a November 2014 wedding in Austin. We're planning on seeing some venues in December when we fly in for Christmas, so I'm trying to get all of the possibilities for us together on a $6,000-$8,000 budget.
In an ideal world, I could find a cheap venue that is just the building and handle everything else myself-- catering and all. On that note, I saw an episode of Extreme Couponing where a lady coupons for the food that she provides to the caterers for her wedding. I would LOOOOOVE to do that. I am not an extreeeeme couponer, but I do coupon quite a bit so that my fiancee and I can survive in the expensive DC metro area on his modest salary and my part time job income while I'm in grad school (and accruing wayyyy too much student loan debt.)
We'd also like to just go to Costco (or somewhere else if it's cheaper) and load up on the alcohol in bulk and provide that to the caterer. I've also wondered if I could just hire a TABC-certified UT college student and just have them handle it so that our only cost there is his/her labor.
Has anyone in Austin ever heard of any of the local caterers allowing this... or any other thoughts on these ideas?
Thanks, y'all!