Wedding Budget... Are your parents helping out?

Lilgcchix23

Hey everyone, I was just curious on something... How many of you have parents that are helping out with the wedding budget?  If so, do you mind me asking how much?

My parents expect me to have a decent wedding in the Columbus, Ohio area (where most wedding are about $35,000- I forget where I saw that, but you can look it up on the internet).  My fiance and I thought that we were going to be good and plan a $10,000 wedding for about 150 people.  My parents, mostly my mom, thought this wouldn't be enough, but we already have my wedding dress, our venue, and our caterer. (He will be in training for his new job for about 2 months this fall.  So, we are trying to get most of the big planning that he will need to help with out of the way now).... BUT, my dad thinks it's ridiculous that he should have to pay for any of it.  Each time my fiance brings up money he acts like he's totally offended.  I don't think it's right for him to pay for all or even most of the wedding, but I am kind of offended that he doesn't want to help at all.  We are both students, live on our own, pay all of our bills and schooling... and 20 years old.  He loves my fiance, I just don't understand.  We work so hard...  I am heart broken and don't know what to do because I have always dreamed of a beautiful wedding.  It's only one day, but it's a very important day to me.  The rest of my family (cousins, etc.) have had help with their weddings (really nice ones!).  I just don't understand why he doesn't want to help us with our wedding.  We have been engaged and saving money for over 2.5 years, shouldn't he have kind of been expecting to help out atleast with the cake or my shoes?  He wants to not contribute a single dime.  Any one else having this problem?  At this point, we'll be ok with our wedding, but it'll put us in a not very good situation with moving this September and school loans...