Delicious and down-home, with super helpful and friendly servers. Bennett's will also let you come in to one of their restaurants to taste what they have to offer, before you decide. The downside is that they charge too much for tablecloths and won't help set up the venue in advance. We spent about $850 for about 50 people, not including alcohol.

We used Chautauqua park for our wedding site, which is a city park in Boulder, Colorado. The City of Boulder was quite strict with its rules - no alcohol, no rice or birdseed, and absolutely no more than 100 guests, including infants! The city asked for a deposit of $100 to reserve the lawn, returned to us within a month of the wedding! Free of charge, and perfect for small summer or fall weddings. This venue is very popular so I recommend reserving it a year in advance.

We had a July breakfast reception at Chautauqua for 100 people. It was delicious and the staff was super helpful and friendly. We got married on the lawn out front with the Flatirons in the background, so this reception site was just perfect.
Chautauqua has several rooms that are appropriate for smaller weddings, if you don't want to get married outside.
Chautauqua is historic and beautiful! Perfect for wedding photos as well.

Second-hand shops are great for the bride on a budget! I found the perfect wedding dress at the Salvation Army for about $50. Dry Cleaning was an additional $12. I had originally thought of it as an emergency back-up dress in case I couldn't find a new one I really liked. But the more dresses I tried on at the bridal shops the more I liked the one I already had!
I realize my story involves a lot of luck, so I recommend you start looking at the second-hand places far in advance. The closer you are to a size 7 or 9 the more luck you'll have finding something appropriate, but if you're petite or voluptuous you'll have a harder time and should start looking even sooner.

We visited several wedding cake providers in the Denver area to taste wedding cakes, including the famous and wonderful Das Meyer in Arvada, but we hit the jackpot when we discovered the bakery at Whole Foods grocery store. Their cakes tasted better and were less expensive than any of the other providers we tried. We spent about $300 on Whole Foods cakes for about 120 people. Their bakery department worked with us to create customized designs, decorating the cakes with organic, edible flowers to match our wedding theme. We ordered one cake of every flavor. The guests simply raved about them!
Whole Foods is especially helpful for last-minute wedding plans or for emergency cake replacements, because you can just walk in and walk out 5 minutes later with one or more beautiful, ready-made, wedding cakes. I particularly recommend the "Chantilly" flavor for last minute weddings because it's a white cake, already decorated in a frilly style appropriate for weddings. (It's also my favorite flavor, with a delightful mascarpone filling.)
Whole Foods is known for all natural ingredients, but don't let that scare you! My husband isn't especially fond of the organic foods movement but he nevertheless agrees that the cakes from Whole Foods were the best we tasted.
Delivery is the one down-side to using Whole Foods for wedding cakes. They will not deliver cakes unless you're also ordering their catering, which we did not do. In our case we prevailed upon the best man to pick up and deliver the cakes before the wedding. This worked out perfectly since our wedding was only 10 minutes long. If yours is longer, you'll have to arrange early pick up followed by refrigeration at the reception venue unless you can find a friend who's willing to deliver cakes instead of attending the wedding.
Best of luck. :)