Thelife- This bride planned a full wedding in
NYC before moving and getting married in another state. - Now, she's selling her fully booked event, which cost $25,000, to another couple at a discount.
- The venue, food, flowers, photographer, and DJ are set for 80 people for a base price of $15,000.
A bride is selling her dream NYC
Mackenzie Newcomb planned her wedding at a
So Newcomb went on TikTok on Monday to sell her original, fully planned September wedding to another NYC-based couple.
The wedding includes a venue, food, flowers, a photographer, and a DJ for a discounted price
@mackinstyle ##greenscreen are you an ##engaged ##NewYorker with a low budget, great taste and crippling anxiety over ##weddingplanning? Just buy my ##wedding instead!
♬ original sound - Mackenzie Newcomb
Newcomb posted details about the wedding
The event is booked for 80 people at Milk & Roses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this September. Newcomb described the venue to Insider as an old-fashioned library with "a speakeasy vibe" and a "secret garden" in the back.
Her listing also includes food and alcohol at the venue, her flowers from Wild Floral Design, her photographer (Jose Melgarejo), and her DJ from TCM DJ Events. The only things not included are the tip for the restaurant and clothes - but she said she's even willing to throw in her wedding dress if the new bride is the same size.
The couple made sure there wasn't anything in their contracts with the vendors that kept them from passing the planned event to someone else. She said some of the vendors even told her there's still time for new customizations before the big day.
In a follow-up TikTok, Newcomb said she originally paid around $25,000 for the wedding, but she's asking for $15,000, which she'll even accept in installments.
"I was really surprised that I was able to plan something this nice with that budget," she told Insider. "I feel like that's definitely part of the reason why people are into this, they're like, 'Oh my god I can't believe there's a wedding for this price in New York.'"
She decided to sell her wedding after marrying her husband in a more intimate ceremony earlier this year
After visiting her grandparents in Massachusetts, Newcomb and her husband realized they were ready to get married in a small ceremony there.
"We planned a wedding in three weeks with just our parents, grandparents, and siblings. No bridal party or anything like that," she told Insider.
Her grandmother officiated the ceremony, which Newcomb said "couldn't have been more personal and perfect," and the reception included music by a close friend and a luxurious meal.
The couple was planning on going through with the original reception when they returned to New York, but then they decided to move into a year-round rental on a lake in Massachusetts.
Her dad was actually the one who suggested trying to sell the wedding, although he told his daughter to put it on Craigslist.
"I'm like, 'Dad, I don't know how to sell a wedding,'" Newcomb told Insider. "I've googled 'how to sell a wedding' 800 times and there has been nothing there."
But the more she thought about it, the bride said, she recognized she had a unique opportunity. Because she works as a full-time content creator and is the founder of an online book club, she said she had a network she could "potentially rely on" to find a buyer.
Newcomb said she'll be choosing a New York-based couple to sell to this week
Newcomb was surprised by how many serious inquiries she received after posting her TikTok, and she told Insider that she's trying to pick the couple she'll sell her wedding to by the end of the week.
"It kind of means a lot to me that this is a couple that lives in New York that wants a local wedding but hasn't been able to figure out how to afford it," she said.
The newlywed said she has plenty of couples to choose from, but she's planning to contact people on a first-come, first-serve basis to see if there are acquaintances who reached out to her before her TikTok got over 100,000 views.
"It worked out super well for me, cause I mean, I just can't believe I'm going to be able to get my money back," Newcomb told Insider. "I really was planning on just chalking it up as a loss."
She also said she's really hoping for a couple to come along and offer the full price up front so that she and her husband can use the money for their dream honeymoon to the Philippines, which they never thought they'd be able to afford.
Overall, the experience made her realize the potential benefits of buying a 'wedding in a box'
By buying a fully planned and booked wedding, a couple can skip the stressful parts of wedding planning and just focus on adding personal finishing touches to their dream day, Newcomb explained.
"It's pretty much a wedding in a box, but I don't think it's a basic wedding," she told Insider.
She added that she hopes that her listing starts a trend.
"If there are other brides who have a reception they keep putting off and there are other brides out there who want someone to plan a wedding in full for them at a discount, everybody wins," she said.