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Married Bees: After all was said and done and you had opened every card and collected all of the proceeds, what did you do with the cash? Did it just go into savings to sit? Did you use it to pay off credit cards with wedding purchases on them? Did you buy something for the two of you like furniture or something for your new home? Tell me!
Engaged Bees: Is there anything you plan to use your future cash for? Anything you really want for after the wedding?
We used it to help pay for our honeymoon! It ended up paying for both of our plane tickets, basically.
We decided to use some of it towards our honeymoon to make it a little better than it was going to be. We didn't go crazy but it was nice not to worry about what we ordered when we ate and if we could afford souvenirs. With the rest, we're using it toward everyday expenses and to pay off debt/loans (not necessarily related to the wedding - just stupid decisions we had made).
The large part of the gifts went into our investments, where they are sitting now. We took out a bit for our one year anniversary trip.
A lot of it went toward paying off the credit card that had our honeymoon on it, and the rest went into savings/investments.
We put it into savings and it is going toward new furniture when we get to England.
UGH. We would have liked to use it to build up our savings, but since I graduated law school right after the wedding and had to wait until after the bar exam before I could work, we used almost all of it for living expenses for a few months. Blah. I guess it was better than a bar loan. :)
We didn't get a huge amount of money, but we used some to buy some things of our registry that weren't purchased - bedding, luggage, little things here and there.
We also went out for a crazy expensive dinner with a lot of wine the day after the wedding. It was totally worth it.
I'm crossing my fingers for a Dyson Vac. If we don't get one, we're totally going to use some of our wedding cash on it because its something I'd never go out and buy normally.
Sounds like honeymoon is a pretty popular way to use the cash. Did you use all of it on the honeymoon or just a bit of it?
@zippylef:Ooo England. When are you moving there?
@Lindsay12.31.2010:That dinner sounds like an awful lot of fun! What percentage of your total budget would you say you got back?
@msgiraffe:I want one sooo bad as well! Which one do you want?
We're engaged and aren't factoring gifts into our budget. We are saving a certain amount each month so that when we can handle the expenses as they come. I originally was against gifts, but realize that some people want to give them, so if we get money, it'll go into savings and be used towards a down payment on a house.
I know someone who threw a huge wedding and invited a certain number of guests with the expectation that she would break even through their gifts. This was when I was younger, so I don't rememeber all the details, but I do remember her counting cash at a table at the end of the night and paying vendors out of the pile. Pretty tacky!
@MsBrooklynA: Hmm I would say about half toward the honeymoon...we had already paid half of the honeymoon a few months before, so this covered the second half.
im not married yet but fi and i have already decided where our money is going.... we are going to use some for a few excursions on our honeymoon in the riviera maya.... and the rest will go towards a new roof on our house :)
Well we had a list of things to do post-wedding and both our wedding money and tax return helped us to:
- replenish savings
- get a new tv
- get a patio
- go to atlanta for a concert in july
We haven't actually executed all of these yet... but thats the plan.
All money we get from the wedding will go toward a down payment on a house.
Whatever we get willgo into savings/investments, but we will definitely buy something 'fun' first. To be honest, we aren't really banking on getting much so anything we receive will be a nice surprise.
credit card bills, and then savings. we aren't sure where we want to buy yet, so we aren't concretely putting anything "toward" that. we probably will not buy for another 2 years or so - we are waiting to see if FI gets work in FL or not (we're in RI). Otherwise, we are debating between buying in CT/RI/MA.
Savings (to replenish some of the money we will have spent on the wedding), and the rest towards a house/rent and buying the things off our registry that we don't get. : )
We paid off some of DH's loan and put the rest in savings
We went on a late honeymoon, so some of the money went to that (though we had some saved up already). We also bought a new couch, and my husband bought a laptop; neither was a big splurge though, we got deals on both. Everything else went into the savings account, which will help pay off my student loans that start gaining interest after this school year!
My uncle made our wedding rings... my nana came over from NZ with them and then with all the money (well we had about $200 left for ourselves) we got from friends and family i handed it back to Nana and she gave it to my uncle to pay for the rings :) Our rings ended up costing alot less then my uncle first quoted us because their gift to us was taking about $400 off the price :)
But the extra money was used while we were on our honeymoon :)
Some of it we used on our honeymoon. Some of it we saved. Some of it we used to buy some things after the wedding that we hadn't received as gifts.
We used 1/4 of it to finish paying off our honeymoon (which is a HUGE splurge for us), and the rest went into savings for a downpayment on our future house :)
We're expecting to get close to $30K (I don't mean that snobbily - I don't "expect" anything -- but we've had 2 weddings in the family in the past couple years, and this was about the average- we both have very big GENEROUS families!!) so about 5K of it will be going toward demolishing credit card bills, and the rest will be combined with our savings toward a downpayment on a house :)
@MrsMaine: Wow that is extremely generous. How many guests are you inviting?
@CorgiTales: What concert are you seeing in July?
@Baby_PebbleS:He made them?! What do those look like?
we used some to get the things off our registry that no one had bought, and some went into savings
Right now I would put it towards honeymoon, students loans, or car down payment.
All of the money we get from the wedding will be going towards a downpayment for a house. The only exception is the money FI's aunt has already given us. She specified that her gift was to be used to buy our flights to Europe for the honeymoon. So that's exactly what we did.
@MsBrooklynA: It is extremely generous. We are very fortunate to have the families that we do! We are having close to 200 guests. My FBIL had about 220 and received $31K, and my sister had 180 and received $27K, so we could be somewhere in the middle of the two.
@MsBrooklynA: Motley Crue, Poison, New York Dolls. My husband is a ridiculous crue fan... BUT I don't mind because it means we get to spend the weekend with my MOH/her husband (who is also a huge crue fan). :)
Some of it we used on the honeymoon, bought a couple things off the registry that I decided I just had to have, and the rest went into savings.
We're setting up a household from scratch, so I think buying things off our registry will be a big thing. Also - buying furniture that we actually like for the new place.
@MissMaine O...M...G!!! 30k?!?!?!?! HOLY MOLY!!! *faints* .... that would be nice!!! good luck!!! :)
@MsBrooklynA Yes my uncle is a jeweller... handy to have one of them in the family
The first photo is what he sent to us so we could see them before my nana bought them over for us. (my one is only 1 ring but he's taken a double angle photo of it)
Here is a picture of my e-ring and wedding band together
We put most of it in the bank and are waiting to use it to buy a house, but we did take a little out to buy a fridge.
My wedding hasn't happened yet but we're thinking we'll use it for furniture. We plan to have picnics for the (hopefully) 2 months between buying our house and the wedding.
@CorgiTales: AHHH!!! We're going to that show when they play here in StL!! I can't wait! My ladies are both Crue fans and I'm in the Poison camp.
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