FI Family Contributions

hwoychowski

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ShyDreamer00

My parents are paying for the entire wedding, most of the bridal shower, transportation, photographer, invitations, plus entertaining our out of town guests. We are paying for the alcohol for the reception (my parents are recovering alcoholics and didn't feel right paying for that, which we understood). FI's mom is hosting the rehearsal dinner which will be at her house (basically a backyard bbq), making favor boxes for the favors, and making the wedding cake. She may help out with making some of the DIY stuff for the wedding....so nowadays, its whatever people offer to pay for.
I am a little irritated that my FI mother hasn't chipped in besides what I stated, but that is only because she had to make sure that she invited everyone in her family on my parent's dime (even though she hadn't seen some people in 4-5 years). These are the same people who didn't bother to show up to our baby shower, so I don't expect them to come to the wedding either. My FMIL also thought she got to help with decorating and give her input, but since she wasn't really helping financially I just gave her basic info (not all of it). So just be grateful for what help you get and if they complain, tell them that they needn't have bothered to come as you can only do so much with the budget that you have