Hi all!
My fiance and I are recently engaged (last night recently.
), but we have been planning our wedding for a couple of months now informally. We have our budget set at $12,000-$13,000, and are planning on having our family help us. My fiance asked for both of my separated parents blessing, and my mother/stepfather told him they would give us 5k + my dress + honeymoon, which is amazing. We would like to ask for contributions from his family and my dad as well, and have it set up for both of them to give about $1,200 each, leaving us to save up for the other $4,000-$5,000.
Soo, first - do you think it's fair to ask the other family members for the much lesser amount, or would that make my mom/stepdad feel like the others are not contributing, even though they offered the larger amount?
Second, how would you bring up the subject for asking if they are going to contribute? We figured the way we would work out the money was to give them both specific, we'd like you to pay for x (e.g. cake, photography, alcohol, etc.) rather than ask for the specific amount.
Any suggestions? Thanks y'all. :-)