Who paid/is paying for your wedding?

kristenervin · January 2010

Wow....there are no words.

LarissaAnn · January 2010

I said "other" because we paid probably 5/6 and my parents 1/6 or thereabouts.

jrksle · January 2010

We're paying for about 95% of it.

cmaygrl · January 2010

We are paying for the whole thing as far as I know. Well, my parents haven't volunteered any money (I don't ask for money... never have... that's my independent side. My FI is the same way). I paid for my dress (kind of hoped my Mom would step up for that one :-( ). My FI & I have a joint bank acct for the wedding & have also set up credit unions through work. So, yes, WE are paying for it. I am hoping we get a little money from the wedding to get us back on our feet after the wedding. (but I'm doubting that we'll get much. Our guests are pretty much only family --- VERY few friends due to budget).

But.. it's all good. I am soo very happy to be marrying the love of my life!! :-) And that is pretty much the important thing, right girls?

faydre · January 2010

We're paying for everything but my dress, which my mom bought.. but we are totaly DIY, and totally budget, but we have a small wedding, so it will be beautiful and perfect anyway...

krmabojo · January 2010

We have a budget and are paying for our wedding entierly. Any money that might be contributed by him parents ro mine is not being counted for. Will will still remain in our budget as close as possible.

CoriG1980 · January 2010

We're paying for everything. My parents are not capable of helping. His parents are and I kept hoping they'd offer but nothing thus far.

That's okay though, we're doing fine on our own. Saving and paying in cash.

kflynn4 · January 2010

FI and I are paying for everything ourselves. My mom finacially cant although she is always trying to get me to accept some money from her. My dad hasn't given me a dollar since high school and hasnt even mentioned contributing though he will walk around our wedding and act like he paid for the whole thing himself. FI's parents make comments constantly about how the brides parents are supposed to pay for the wedding but never mention how they still owe my FI $10,000 they borrowed from him a few years ago. Im a bit bitter but happy to be marryingthe man of my dreams

cukimerrydoll · January 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_paidis-paying-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:73845b25-5eea-4719-bda1-a5c5e3237932Post:344c6cc3-e298-468b-856f-4a7e3a756a0c">Re: Who paid/is paying for your wedding?</a>:
[QUOTE]My parents volunteered to pay for the whole wedding, but FI and I are saving and contributing as much as we can.
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]
Same here. And we're crafty DIY suckers too! His parents are contributing too and giving us a honeymoon.

Both sets of our parents know we've been saving and scrounging for a while now, so all parties agreed that should go toward a downpayment on a house.

ave · January 2010

We paid for most of it. My parents wanted to but couldn't help much, my grandparents covered the food at our reception (Costco), and his parents were traditional, they would pay for the luncheon but nothing else.

We paid for the rest (rings, honeymoon). We did a lot of DIY, my mom and sisters were very helpful! We made my cake (turned out Great

), my sister found pretty and cheap decorations, and we had the reception at our church to save money. A friend was a DJ for us in lieu of a present.

heatherohmy · January 2010

We are footing most of the bill. We began putting money into a joint account before we were even engaged for a special something and then when we got engaged we decided that we would continue to save that money and add to it for the wedding.
When we started out we had 5k saved and now (6mnts later) we have $7500 saved. We are not getting married until Sept. 23, 2010. So we have some time to keep saving. We plan on having a budget of about 15k.
His parents are paying for the rehersal dinner and tux rentals for all the guys and my parents are paying for my dress and all the girls dresses.
I am also a culinary student so a couple of the girls in my class are going to make my cake and my uncle is a photographer so that is only going to cost us about $100 for the print outs.
We are having a fairly large wedding, around 220 people since we both come from HUGE families.

mknutson74 · January 2010

I am paying for almost EVERYTHING! (yes-I, ME-alone, not FI) My mom bought bought my dress, accessories, shoes, her dress and my sister's (MOH) all for under $1,000. My mom (single since I was 10 and sister was 3) has given what she could (I know more than she can afford but still wants to keep giving)! His parents have offered to pay for RD, he wants to go big! I would rather go smarter (less money, with more fun-bowling, pizza etc). Welcome to our ONLY confrontation.

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