Who pays for the wedding?

[Sweetsus]

We'll be paying for most of ours. I know my mum is going to contribute some but I don't think DF's family will.

 

[Wish on a Star]

My parents wanted to pay for the dress and the reception, but everything else is on me (which is why I chose an Escape wedding to begin with- it's actually cheaper than having a hometown wedding and having to invite a lot of people)

But I would sit down and have to conversation before you start planning a wedding, because budget can make all of the difference in the world, and with the economy the way it is- people may not be able to be so "traditional" or extravagant"

 

[Nicola2010]

we are paying for our own wedding... we will be 30 too and have a house and to be honest we wouldnt expect it to be any other way (however if my parents could afford to pay that might just be a different story lol)

My mum is contributing towards our cake and DF's parents are paying for the flowers... i think that is fine and very lovely of them.

 

[AlternateEgo]

We are paying for our wedding and honeymoon. My parents have decided to offer nearly 1/3 of our wedding budget to help costs. That was very sweet of them

Neither of our parents are well off, and well.. neither are we, lol. But we were able to justify a wonderful budget and with my parents contribution, I have been able to "splurge" a little.

$2,500 budget, Parents are contributing $800.

 

[PirateBride08]

My mom paid the bill to Disney, DH and I paid for the extras including our "honeymoon" we stayed in Disney the week after the wedding. DH's parents paid for the RD, we actually had a lunch at the GF Summer House and they paid for the bar.

 

[tommymomo]

we are paying for everything ourselves. Unfortunalty my DF's family isn't all that happy that we are having it at disney, so that kind of made it our cost.

 

[jenna77]

We are paying for the wedding ourselves. My mom isn't crazy about the Disney wedding idea, she thinks we should be getting married free in a park somewhere, LOL. And I wouldn't want her to pay for my wedding anyway, as she paid for my grad school which is the reason we can afford this wedding

 

[Luv2Diz]

The grooms parents pay for the rehersal dinner, the flowers and the honeymoon.

It is traditionally the groom's parents who pay for the rehearsal dinner. But I have never heard that it's their responsibility to pay for the honeymoon. I don't know a single couple who didn't pay for their own honeymoon. Maybe this is a tradition only in certain regions?!

 

[CharacterFan]

It is traditionally the groom's parents who pay for the rehearsal dinner. But I have never heard that it's their responsibility to pay for the honeymoon. I don't know a single couple who didn't pay for their own honeymoon. Maybe this is a tradition only in certain regions?!

When I was doing a school sociology project in high school, about 5 years ago. I remember reading that it's traditional for the groom or groom's family to pay for the honeymoon. I don't know of anyone doing things this days.

 

[Ann117]

My parents are paying for the Disney wedding. My Dad loves Disney so he is happy. My Df and I are paying for a reception at home where we can invite more people.

 

[PipesofLirael]

My absolutely amazing parents are paying for everything. We've tried to offer to help but they refuse. lol. I'm an only child, so I'm sure that explains a good portion of it. As for the family of my DF, his family is paying for the honeymoon adn rehearsal dinner. But in all honesty, they act like we're a couple of morons for doing this and constantly belittle the process, so I would rather have NO RD than deal with this anymore.

 

[kcampbell]

Wow do I feel very fortunate. My mom paid for everything except the Rehearsal dinnner, my bouquet, and groomsman boutonnieres. (The DH's 'rents did that-they kept it pretty tradititional) We are paying off our honeymoon however...

 

[nostalgic]

Our situation is somewhat reversed I guess. My parents are deceased and his family is a good deal more well off than my family anyways so they are paying for the majority of our wedding (not in Disney but would be about the same price). They are also putting the money up front for our Disneymoon and we will pay them back. My family is paying for flowers, photography and the rehearsal dinner. I technically paid for my dress, veil, shoes, etc.
It really does boggle me that a lot of people feel a huge sense of entitlement to a huge wedding and I've had girls get really snotty with DF when he mentioned that his family was paying for the wedding. Explaining the circumstances usually shut them up pretty fast
I actually feel incredibly guilty for the amount of money we're spending (over $30K when all is said and done!) because so many of you have had wonderful weddings at a fraction of the cost! I don't know how you did it! We're not booking this huge lavish place or anything. It's a fantastic restaurant with top ratings but per head they are more reasonable than almost every other place we've been interested in and certainly less for the quality we'd be getting. We're also having well under 100 people (if I can help it ) I guess we can chalk that up to being in Connecticut.... I hope.