How much did you spend on your wedding?

[warrior queen]

We have several marriages coming up and we've been discussing weddings this morning, and I am totally stunned at just how much money some people are prepared to spend on their nuptuals
Even those who are on a limited income are planning to.spend so much that they will be in debt for around 10 years!

My wedding.was beautiful, intimate and relatively inexpensive.
As a seamstress, I made my own dress (took me 7 months total, and the fabric was the most expensive part as I imported silver Chinese silk). My bridesmaids all wore r-t-w so they could re-use theirs in the future. The groom and his men all hired their suits. Food and drink was purchased/paid for for a year prior.
Total cost.... $8000.

How much did you spend?

 

[pink]

A big fat $0.




heh

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Aren't you divorced?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

$27,000 AU (about $500 US) but that included a destination wedding, paying for two of our best friends each to come to the wedding, and a fourteen day honeymoon on an exclusive island in Fiji. Most of that cost was the honeymoon, and all up we were away for just under a month.

That doesn't sound right. I think you need to move the decimal point to the right.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I'm old. It's right.

You must have traveled by wagon train.

 

[TrailDawg]

Year 1978
Blood test and Physicals $25.00 each
Marriage license $25.00
Simple silver wedding bands donated and crafted by a friend
Tipped the judge $20.00
No church
No gown
No reception
No honeymoon

36 years (and counting) later
3 wonderful successful children
2 wonderful grandchildren
It's been a great ride. Well worth the $95.00 dollars!

 

[Noor]

Year 1978
Blood test and Physicals $25.00 each
Marriage license $25.00
Simple silver wedding bands donated and crafted by a friend
Tipped the judge $20.00
No church
No gown
No reception
No honeymoon

36 years (and counting) later
3 wonderful successful children
2 wonderful grandchildren
It's been a great ride. Well worth the $95.00 dollars!

This was basically our plan, except now you don't need blood tests and physicals. We also had a friend who would do it as a gift, so basically just the license.

 

[PattiJolene]

Too much. Will never happen again.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I think we spent about 12-13 grand total, which was a bit pricey for the '80s.

 

[SexyWench]

Paid just under 9K (reception, bridal outfits, licence)
we had 300 guests
received 5k in cash as gifts

 

[DesEsseintes]

I was going to post in here and wrote a long post which looked like humblebrag. Then I read closer and there was no humble, even, so I deleted.

I'll simply say that if you are deeply unpopular and have few friends, even a pretty posh wedding can end up fairly cheap.

 

[Saint Peter]

10 bucks.

 

[Lord Pmann]

$30k for the one overseas. It was pretty small though. Maybe 30 people there.

Then we had a reception back in the US for about $5k. This was ten years ago.

 

[Adre]

I have no fucking clue what we spent, but I suspect the wine and booze was the biggest ticket.

 

[warrior queen]

It's easy to classify a cheap(er) wedding as meaning there are few friends or you're unpopular.
That's not always the case though!
We had just under 100 guests. We did not invite people just because we thought they might be offended if we didn't!
The venue was free . All the meat was free. The wine was free.

It really helps to have family and friends who own farms, vineyards, etc.

 

[Noor]

We weren't planning on inviting or telling anyone either Maybe if/when it came out we could have a party. I imagine our parents would have thrown a party of two, they like doing that.

 

[rimmy]

We had 200 guests and spent 18k Canadian. The majority of it was on food and booze.

The upside is that our parents paid for it.

 

[absorb]

Let us see we were way to young. We both barely able to just get our first real half way decent jobs. I think we spent like a hundred dollars on the certificate and the town hall site. I did not have a gown or anything like that. My family and I were not on speaking terms at the time something stupid I think it was then but, it seemed important at the time. It was a simple time and we did not care. However, it has been twenty years and we have a family. So, not having the wedding of our dreams did not mean much. My brother spent five grand and there not any happier then we are. I do not feel bad it was a single day in the twenty years we have been married. That is all that really matters.~

 

[Tryharder62]

I don't know the total but it was probably 3-4 thousand. What gets me is wedding dresses. I had a beautiful dress, lacy, long train, veil the whole sha-bang for $260 dollars. Some people spend thousands.

 

[yossi]

I've never been married, but I don't plan on spending much when I do. I'd rather have money for a honeymoon or towards a home. Plus, I'm pretty low key. But who knows? Maybe I'll turn into one of those awful brides you see on tv nowadays.

 

[Aquagal]

About $1000

Was in my Mom's backyard.
Dress cost like $150
I made the three tiered cake
FIL's bestie bought and prepared a Tri tip BBQ dinner for 80 peeps for gift.
Mom made 2 bridesmaids dresses
Rented tuxes
Sister did flowers
Reverend uncle did the marrying
Friend did hair
His ring was melted down from mine and his dad's wedding rings
I traded services with the photographer.

I think the most expensive thing was prepping the yard and planting flowers.
And booze...kegs of beer, red wine and champagne.

 

[Wife of Bath]

I'm not married, but both of my sisters weddings cost over 50k. Separately.

 

[quietlylooking]

One of our major wedding expenses was a polka band. Money well spent.

 

[rimmy]

I'm not married, but both of my sisters weddings cost over 50k. Separately.

How can you not be married?

 

[DesEsseintes]

How can you not be married?

Because you were already taken?