Got married in 2014 for under 10k. Worked out great because between in-laws and my folks they offered a 20k gift and we still paid for some things ourselves. I paid for my best man to come to our destination wedding, and I helped him out with an outfit, and I bought my outfit. I also bought some small gifts for the wedding party.
If I showed you the pictures you wouldn't believe. Private ocean-front estate, two photographers and a wedding planner, priest, hairdressers and our 8 guests. Our reception back home was for 75 guests, they all had a great time and we did not have booze, just a pig roast at a very nice park we rented.
After saying I do as the sunset onto the pacific, we went to the Four Seasons private bamboo room for dinner and drinks.
Took that $10k we had leftover and invested it. Seemed like the sensible thing to do. DW and I always discussed before making any wedding commitments that we didn't want to go into our marriage in debt, and we didn't.
Reasons we were able to keep it under 10,000:
1. We limited the guest list to 75
2. We picked a Sunday for our reception and shopped venues for a good deal
3. We eloped for the actual wedding, which added costs for some of our guests but decreased our overall costs
4. We didn't go too absurd on our wedding attire, and it was wear the theme colors, none of that everyone where matching everything, so not a lot of wardrobe renal or costs
5. We rode to and from our wedding/receptions in our personal vehicles
6. We did not have a DJ, but I did setup some background Hawaiian music at the reception, again without booze and DJ people still said they had a fun time at my wedding, I personally think folks remember it because it was remarkably humble.
Before I got married I sort of reached out to some good buds. I recall one stating "Dude the only thing people are going to remember about your wedding, is if you had booze and where it was...and some won't even remember where it was." SO I decided not to have booze in the hopes folks would remember where we actually had the wedding reception.