My fiance and I have really been talking lately and we would love to have a big beautiful wedding, but of course, like always money is a HUGE factor! So today we came up with the idea of just having appetizers and drinks ( alcoholic and nonalcoholic). We plan on having 250 people at our wedding (i have a huge family) and reducing the guess count is not an option( trust me I tried). Whats even worse is we live in southern california in los angeles. We want our wedding to be really fun and want to have a great band and photographer because that is what’s important to us. We plan on starting at around 7-7:30. Do you guys think this is a good time? If you went to our wedding would you think us cheap? feeding this amount would end up costing us around $7,000 and that is with a CHEAP catering company. HELP!!! Any input (so long as its helpful and not someone being stupid) is very much welcomed. Thanks for your time!