According to The Knot, the average wedding couple spent $32,600 on their hometown wedding in 2025. Now, those are national numbers, and our local numbers will be somewhat lower. But there is a critical piece of information no one tells couples when they are in the planning stage of their wedding.
This critical piece of information would affect critical decisions YOU are about to make if you are recently engaged, if you only knew it.
For the record, it doesn’t matter what your total wedding spend is: One element looms above all the others: the entertainment.
Entertainment makes the event. And yet The Knot tells us that couples spend but 5% of their entire budget on the entertainment, even though it provides 95% of the fun.
• For the quarter of couples who spend $12,000 or less on their weddings, entertainment makes the event.
• For the 50% of all couples who spend between $12,000 and $41,000, entertainment makes the event.
• For the 25% of couples who spend over $41,000 on their weddings, entertainment ALSO makes the event.
If there is one, single aspect on which you should NOT scrimp, it is on the entertainment.
The Knot tells us couples spend far more on the wedding gown, venue, photographer, caterer, florist, and event rentals than the entertainment.
Those services, while vitally important to wedding celebrations, are tangible services that are gone after the reception is over (except for your wedding photographs).
Entertainment is intangible
You can’t touch it, but you can feel it! That’s the power of fun, and THAT is what sticks with you and your guests when the celebration ends: the fun memories of your wedding celebration.
Again, each wedding service listed about is important to your event. But Columbus Pro DJs recommends that you consider your entertainment budget as a priority as you plan your wedding.
We offer attractive package pricing, allowing you to customize our services to fit the budgets of Columbus couples.
Do you need DJ/MCs? How about photo booth and uplighting? We offer the essential wedding entertainment services that adds up to providing 95% of the fun at wedding celebrations. Check out our availability! And remember: entertainment makes the event.
