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I'm paying for my wedding with cash, and both sets of parents have helped (probably $2k in gifts from them) and we are covering the rest (with a budget of no more than $5k).
my option isn't really there. i am having what i consider to be middle of the road, and my parents are paying for half while FI and I will cover the rest!
Sorry. I didn't want to overwhelm the poll with options, so I left out the mixed funds option. I would say that anyone paying around 50% is paying for their wedding, for purposes of the poll.
We're hoping not to spend any more than 2k to be honest. And yeah, that'll be hard ... but I know we can do it with discipline. My parents are going to help out some, with buying decorations, etc. But it's mostly on us!
We're paying for it all by ourselves, and trying to pay less than 5k for the whole thing....sounds cheap, but it's rough times right now!
My option isn't on there either.
We have a budget of about $20K (not including honeymoon) and we're paying for 1/2 ourselves and his and my parents are contributing the other half.
my parents are paying for the wedding, and they gave us a certain amount and said spend what you want and keep the rest. so for me, i'm planning on a strict budget because i want to have a lot left over.
My fiance's parents are paying for it and his mom keeps telling me to get whatever I want. Like she never answered us about a budget and seems like she doesn't care. The place she suggested is $7000 just to rent it for a Saturday night without anything included...yea... so I haven't been caring too much about a budget because I don't really have one. I do try to get the best deals for what I want though because I don't like wasting money.
I am paying half, and my mom/his parents are paying the other half. Not too concerned about sticking to the budget, but I hopt not to be more than $5k over.
We're paying for the whole thing, and we aren't really following a budget. Fortunately, we're frugal by nature, so I'm not worried about it.
My parents offered us $5,000 towards our wedding so we decided to do the whole shebang for that amount and focus our savings on buying a house.
We're contributing half and his parents are helping with almost half. My parents each chipped in 1,000 and my dad and step mom bought my dress!
I'm being given a wedding by my parents, and I don't really have a budget. I was shooting for like 35k, but as of right now I've spent 19-20k on dress, music, cake, and photog, aka like nothing. It's looking like it's going to be upwards of 50k. I don't know how this got so out of control. lol
we're paying for half and my parents are paying for the other half. We're trying to stay between 30K and 35K including the honeymoon.
FI's parents are paying about 30%, my parents about 20% and we are paying 50% ourselves. Our MAX amount to spend is $30K, but hopefully it will fall somewhere between $20-25K. 
Our option is not on your list so I didn't vote. We paid for a little less than 1/3 of a $25k budget (not including rings or honeymoon) and parents paid for rest.
We will be paying for most of ours. I would be surprised if my parents gave more than 1-2K and his parents will give 1K if anything. Because he hasn't proposed yet we haven't really set a budget. I mentioned that I thought I'd like to do a wedding for about 10K and he said he thought that sounded reasonable (in a "i can't believe that we'd spend 10k on one day but if you say that is what it costs then i'll do it" kind of way :) )
Honestly I care more about the ceremony and the honeymoon than the reception, so I'm kicking around the idea of trying to do a small/semi-casual wedding for 5k and use the other 5k for a honeymoon. We'll see!
Mine isn't really up there either - my parents are paying for most of it, and there isn't technically a budget but we are just trying to keep it as cheap as possible (so far, doing good - at about $6,000 for venue on a Friday night, coordinator, a night for us at the hotel, and our dinner - which will be plated).
My fiance and I are paying for parts of it, though - so far just the photographer, but I'm sure there'll be more that we end up paying for.
Not including rings, honeymoon, rehearsal dinner, day after brunch, my wedding day jewelry, venue location, my parents have given 30K with specific instructions for a specific band so that brings it down to 25K~ish from them and whatever we choose to contribute ourselves which is looking like invites, some decorations etc. Whatever I have left over (and I am frugal so there better be left overs) will go back to my parents. My dad did say that if I needed more he would give it to me but there better be a good reason. I have anxiety thinking about spending this much on a wedding.
My parents are VERY generously giving us $10,000 (twice what I hoped for), which I felt like was a lot, until I plugged it into the Knot's little automatic budget break down thingy... and then I realized how many costs there are, so we're still on a pretty strict budget.
We are planning to pay for everything ourselves and so far, have determined a budget of about $22k including EVERYTHING. I thought I could do it on 10k but when I really thought about actual costs this seemed impossible. However, now that we set what we see as s realistic budget we are sticking to it and I'm trying to come in under while he is happy to just not go over.
My parents are giving us $12,000 for the wedding and I'm paying for everything else. It looks like it'll be around $18,000 including the rings and (domestic) honeymoon. That is very little money for our area, so it's been rough, but I think things will turn out nicely.
We don't have a budget but we're definitely ON a budget, if that makes sense. My parents are paying (generously) for our reception and they bought my dress. That being said I got a sample dress off the rack and it cost about $700 so it's not over the top (although it's not cheap either!) And our reception is going to be held at the same social club where my parents' reception was in 1968 and where my sister and brother in law's was in 1999 with a caterer who's good but nothing too fancy. My cousin's wife will probably do our flowers and I think my mom will pay her. FI and I are paying for the photographer and DJ and we'll pay for the video if we get one. We're also paying for invitations and other paper goods and I'm leaning towards somewhere online like Birchcraft for traditional and simple invitations instead of breaking the bank on luxurious and gorgeous invitations (as much as I might like to!)
FI's parents are paying for our reception in Ireland and I'm guessing FI and I will pay for DJ/Photographer/flowers but that is TBD. His parents might just give us money - I'm not sure.
We're not fancy people so the priority is to have the people around us who we love and who support us and then to do the food and music as nicely as we can....we'll see how it goes!!! :0)
My parents were very generous and offered to cover everything, while his insisted on covering the open bar. I didnt think that it was fair that my dad pay for everything when I havent relied on him financially since college, so I did pay for some stuff here and there. We didnt have a budget, but I didnt go out of control over the top. It still cost upwards of $40K
Sometimes I'm not sure how to answer this question, because while our budget is not what most people would consider really small ($20k), it is very very strict. My parents are giving ten, his are giving five, and between our savings and a small gift from his grandmother we're hoping to make up the rest of the 5. All sets of parents have been very clear that they absolutely will not be going over what they said they'd give, which is totally fine, but does make careful budgeting necessary.
We are paying for 99% of our wedding. Buget is $15,000.
My parents have said they will contribute about $2000 and I imagine FI's family will contribute about the same. We will use family $$ to add to the budget or enhance the things we are doing, that way if it falls through, we aren't up a creek.
A beautiful, expensive venue and LOTS of DIY!
Our budget is still up in the air. It reall depends on how much my grandparents and parents help, which I am not getting my hopes up for a huge huge number.
I kind of always assumed we would be on a tight budget. Which, I would still like to spend as little money as possible while still having the things we want and everyone have a kick ass time! But my fiance really suprised me the other day by saying "Well, as long as we are under 30 thousand I think we will be good without help from anyone (his parents aren't able to help at all and we aren't even expectng or asking them to). I was like 
. See, he read this article saying that 30 thousand was the average cost of a wedding, but I think it would be less here. But honestly, I don't know. I think I would like to spend less than that, because I mean it is one day but it's so hard when you get wedding brain!
So as of right now, it is up in the air, but I am for sure going to be talking to him again about that number and seeing if that is what he envisioned spending for the wedding or including our rings and honeymoon (if we get to take one after the wedding that is *gives the Army puppy dog eyes* haha) and if that is truly what he wants to spend.
As for the poll, I will vote in a few days when we get it figured out haha, but regardless we will have some help from my family though it is to be determined.
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I am starting this thread out of curiosity. Some people here seem to be on a very tight budget, whereas others seem to have no budget. What is the breakdown?