Inspired: how much did your wedding cost?

[rt2dz]

And who paid what??

I'll go first, total bill of the wedding was ~$18,000, paid for by my parents. Bar tab alone was $5000. Rehersal Dinner was paid for bt in-laws and was ~$400

ETA: this does not include our honeymoon (which we didn't get to take, but that is another story) or our rings--which, we, of course paid for.

 

[lemondog]

My parents paid for our wedding. The total cost was around $20,000. My in-laws paid for the rehearsal dinner, but I have no idea how much it cost.

 

[helenabear]

Dad paid for mine... about $5,000 total. I don't think my in-laws paid for anything.

 

[Sandcass]

My entire wedding was $1,000 start to finish, including my dress! My mom paid for it. We got married at our church by ourselves and then celebrated after with a picnic. It was so fun! There was lots of kids running around and we ate fried chicken & Italian beefs. Everybody still mentions how fun it was now, almost 14 years later.

We are sooooo NOT the fancy wedding type. Casual all the way!

 

[ntburns22]

Ours cost around $15,000 paid for mostly by my parents. MIL payed for the DJ and rehersal dinner and FIL payed for some of the booze. We put it together in 3 months so I think we did pretty good. No I was not expecting, there was a chance DH was going to be sent out on a deployment.

 

[EthansMom]

Our wedding cost $2500 in 1999. There were 15 of us present. The cost included a buffet meal, the most delish wedding cake, flowers, etc. DH and I paid for it all. My dad gave us a check for $1000, though, as a gift.

 

[LadyyRedd]

My entire wedding was $1,000 start to finish, including my dress! My mom paid for it. We got married at our church by ourselves and then celebrated after with a picnic. It was so fun! There was lots of kids running around and we ate fried chicken & Italian beefs. Everybody still mentions how fun it was now, almost 14 years later.

We are sooooo NOT the fancy wedding type. Casual all the way!

That sounds almost exactly like the wedding I want!! I do not want anything fancy. I don't want all the extended relatives coming. I don't want crowds of people. I want small and casual.

Kimya

 

[Divamomto3]

Including the honeymoon, mine was around $25,000 15 years ago. Parents and inlaws kicked in $5000 each. The rest my DH and I paid for.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Around $1,000 including my gown. I did everything myself, kept things very very small and had just a cake and punch reception. It was still beautiful and the best day of my life.

 

[mommyintn]

Ours was about $6500 the least expensive thing was my dress, it was my dream dress but it was discontinued and in my size so got it for $150

 

[lbgraves]

Ours cost around 4000 including the rings & dress. DH & I did everything ourselves and paid for it all too. We used silk flowers for the arrangements. I made baskets for the bridesmaids and filled them with baby's breath & dried pansies from our garden. We made the rehersal dinner...french bread, lasagna, & salad...and set up tables all thru the house. We decorated the hall with our wedding party Friday morning. We spent more than we planned/wanted to in the beginning but it was everything we could have hoped for & more.

 

[mepperson]

Maybe around $3000, including dress, but not including rehearsal dinner. Dh and I paid for everything except rehearsal dinner - his parents paid for that, so I have no idea of the cost.

One of my little sisters got married 3 months after me - and I think my mom helped pay for HERS!

My mom got remarried a couple of months after my sister (my dad died the year before that). So, LOTS of wedding all at once. DH and I were on our own.

 

[golfgal]

Ours was about $4000 not including the rehearsal dinner which my in-laws paid for. DH and I paid for the rest. We had 200 people for dinner and a dance reception or caterer charged us $6.50/person for a roast beef dinner with all the fixings and this HUGE fresh fruit sculpture thing. We had everything we (well I) wanted for the wedding. We just got lucky on the cost. My dress was also on clearance so I got my dress, vail, slip, headpiece for $250. The original price on the dress alone was $1500. Our 16th anniversary is coming up next week so this was a few years ago.

 

[Madaboutthemouse]

We spent around $15000 in 2003. (Maybe a little more if you add in honeymoon) My Mom and Dad (divorced) each gave us $5000. We paid for the rest. IL's paid for the rehearsal dinner. We had about 300 guests, sit down dinner in a beautiful reception hall. It was the greatest day of my life!

 

[MzDiz]

Including everything, less than 500 bucks. We got married in the park where we met, on a lovely bridge - $0 I made the clothes we wore (renaissance themed) - between $200-300. We had the reception in a friend's backyard and all my friends made the food. We all have large pavilions (strange hobbies), so there was lots of sheltered space. It was really nice.

 

[pearlieq]

Ours was about $10,000 including the honeymoon. ILs paid for the rehearsal and they & my mom gave us about 1/2 between the two of them.

Ours was fairly simple. We had the ceremony and reception at our church. No alcohol was allowed, but we weren't really that type of crowd. We had a buffet dinner and DJ, followed by 10 glorious days at WDW!!!

 

[tw1nsmom]

We spent around $5,000 in 1998 for our wedding, including rehearsal dinner, all wedding expenses and honeymoon to WDW. The IL's gave us $1,000, my mom paid for my dress $750, my brother gave us $1,500, and we paid for the rest.

I squeezed every penny out of that budget and ended up with a beautiful wedding. We were married in a garden in the park, had fresh flowers that I got from a discount supplier and arranged myself, a DJ, a silk dress, and a lovely buffet luncheon for 100 at Lillian's in Saratoga Springs. We had a BBQ at the state park for our rehearsal dinner.

 

[Brianne]

Ours was about $2500 & most of that was spent on food. We only wanted a cake & punch reception but my family flipped out. It wasn't the type of wedding we wanted, but they paid for it--at least in the end, I got the only thing I wanted out of the whole thing anyway: DH.

 

[eeyoresmountainpals]

Ours was about $2500 & most of that was spent on food. We only wanted a cake & punch reception but my family flipped out. It wasn't the type of wedding we wanted, but they paid for it--at least in the end, I got the only thing I wanted out of the whole thing anyway: DH.

Must be a FL thing, Brianne, 'cause we ended up giving in on a lot that we really didn't want but my mom wanted "for us." We were married in St. Pete. If I had it to do all over again it would have been so different, so simple! But, like you, in the end I got what I wanted - married to DH!! That was in 1983, a long time ago and four kids ago!

I honestly do not know what our wedding cost. Mom wanted me to have a big beautiful wedding and would NEVER discuss the cost. (Dad had died when I was 14 and Mom paid for everything!) Even after she passed away there was nothing in her records for me to see how much it had cost. You could tell she had carefully taken those records out!

 

[jel0511]

We spent about $30k, not including our honeymoon, in 1995. We paid for it ourselves.