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My parents are paying for the reception, groom's suit and some other miscellaneous costs. FI's parents are paying for the flowers and rehearsal dinner. We're covering the rest.
We paid for everything ourselves. (I just realized you were only asking about people who had family paying, oops.)
My parents are paying for everything on the wedding day but the rehearsal dinner, groomsmen's attire, and honeymoon, which his parents are paying for. We're buying our own rings and paying for our own post-wedding hotel room.
My parents gave us a budget of a certain amount and it covered about 3/4 of the reception. They also paid for my dress. My sister paid for our flowers. His parents are paying for our photographer and rehearsal dinner. The rest we paid for including honeymoon so we had about half of the festivities paid for.
My parents gave us a budget in the beginning. His parents are paying for the RD.
We covered our rings, honeymoon, stationary, and other misc items. My parents are paying for all the bulky items i.e. food, photographer, etc.
We're paying for most of the whole shebang, ceremony, reception, attire, rentals, catering, rehearsal dinner. We're also paying for all our parents' and the wedding party's accomodations for the weekend.
My parents are paying for our beverages (just serving wine, beer, soda, water) and some random things.
His mom is paying for our cupcakes.
His dad has not offered to pay anything and we're not expecting that he will.
My fiancé's parents are divorced and quite past retirement age and both still need to work to make ends meet. They are both financially stressed. We realized this going into it and have not put any pressure on them to assist us, unless they have brought it up themselves.
My parents offered to help us out and we've taken them up on some of that amount, but we will not take all of it.
We, like many others I think, are proud to be doing it mostly on our own, and debt free.
C's parents are paying for everything. Without seeming too bitter or angry at my family, they say they cannot contribute.
We are more than blessed to have such kind and loving family on the groom's side to help us into our new life together. I'm eternally grateful to them that we can start our life debt free!
ugh money issues. My parents paid for the bulk of eveything. His parents cover the rehearsal dinner and the tux rentals for the guys.
FH's parents are paying for the honeymoon, groom's tux, and half the rehearsal dinner (FH is paying for the other half and my wedding band). I'm paying for 75% of the rest of it with money I've saved over the years specifically for the wedding, and my parents are helping me by offering a sum of money that will comprise the other 25%.
My parents are paying for the reception, his parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner, we're paying for the rings, hotel rooms, and honeymoon.
My parents paid for almost everything but the honeymoon in which my husband and I are now saving up for to do ourselves. My now in-laws didn't step up to the plate at all but that's ok, we were grateful for the help we did receive! We ended up not having an offical rehearsal dinner because of it but invited for everyone to come out to dinner with us with the understanding they would pay their own way and it worked great!
We should open this question to include those that are paying for their own wedding. It may be really interesting to compare how much people spend (that other enormous thread) with who pays their own way.
We're paying for nearly all of our wedding. My mom gifted us 3K, and his parents are paying for the rehersal dinner. We've got the rest, minus a honeymoon (I don't want to spend a dime more than we have to. We'll take a vacation some other time -- hopefully some day soon!).
We were incredibly lucky - my parents paid for the entire reception and a morning after brunch. We tried to pitch in but they really wanted to do this for us. His parents paid for the RH, but money issues meant the guestlist had to be controlled. we paid for rings, honeymoon, gifts and a few odds and ends that i didn't tell my parents about! I am a good saver, so I don't think anything much would have changed if we had to pay for it ourselves, but it was a wonderful and generous gift from my parents.
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My FH's parents insisted on having our ceremony/reception at an extravagant venue (against my wishes) and therefore are footing the bill. Now they are postponing it, and there's nothing we can do/say because we aren't shelling out the money. My parents, my fiance and I are paying for all the other expenses. If there's one lesson I've learned, try and take care of things yourself. Otherwise you invite trouble if those that are paying aren't being gracious about it. Sorry, this is obviously a sore subject for me!
We're paying for absolutely everything. It's kind of rough being so young (22 and 23 atm) and not having a lot of savings built up, but we figure we can start saving more after the wedding is over (surprisingly we actually have still been able to put some away each month).
We both have fairly high paying jobs for our age and funding everything ourselves has given us complete freedom. We get to have a vegetarian meal, use my best friend as the officiant, have no alcohol, etc, none of which would fly if parents were paying.
Some would call our budget relatively small, but it's a vast sum of money to me. We're prolly going to come in at 13-15k without rings or a honeymoon. I'm 95% sure we won't have any debt at all, depending on what we decide on for rings.
I would feel weird accepting a large chunk of money from my parents, especially now that I'm financially independent. I borrowed $1500 from them for deposits on our apartment and that was weird enough. If my parents had any money to give, I'd tell them to pay off my 35k in student loans! :)
My parents are paying for the reception venue which is a hotel so it includes food, linens, and all the dinner such. My FI and I have been trying to pay for the rest of it and then his family has contributed enough to basically cover most of our costs if not all plus half of the photography costs. I feel blessed to have family like that!!
We are paying for rings, gifts and favors. FH parents are paying for the rehersal dinner. My parents are paying for everything else.
My parents are paying for dress, ceremony, reception, and welcome dinner. FI parents are paying for rehearsal dinner. We're lucky to have financial support like they've provided.
We paid for everything. Neither his mom nor mine (both our dads are more or less out of the picture) are well off... the opposite actually. We're much more likely to be giving them money or helping them out with something then they helping us. So we covered a rehearsal/welcome pizza dinner for all the OOT'ers, then had our reception, and a morning after bruch. We weren't able to have a honeymoon because we simply did not have the money so we're saving for a one year anniversary get away. We came in right around $5K for everything.
Note though that both of our moms contributed so much emotionally during the planning. Even though they weren't able to pay for anything (and I know that was hard for both of them), they were always there to support me and listen to all my endless ideas and projects and I'm very grateful for that! Plus my mom went over and above the weekend of. She brought bagles for me and my girlfriends the morning before when we were having our work party, and the morning of the wedding as well as helped set up and tear down the facility. I don't know what I would have done without either of them.
My parents paid for rehearsal dinner, reception, weekend hotel accomodations for 80% of our OOT guests, morning-after brunch, and 1/2 our photographer fee. (Wow, we were so so so lucky!)
His parents paid for the Chinese banquet the next day.
We paid for all other misc. stuff, e.g. 1/2 photographer fee, flowers, stationery, decor, videographer, dress (x3, wedding, reception dress, and Chinese dress), BP gifts, officiant, rings, honeymoon... I think those are the main things!
The cost is essentially being split between his parents, my mom, and my FI and I. Our parents will split the ceremony costs. His parents will cover the rehearsal dinner, the lunch reception, and groom-related stuff. My mom will cover our dinner banquet costs, my dress, and anything and we'll be paying for the personal touches and everything else -- photography, invitations, flowers, decor, rings, honeymoon, gifts for our bridal party, etc.
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Just out of curiosity...
Of those of you who have your family financially supporting your wedding, is it your parents, his parents, or both?